README.md

Modbus Simulator

Modbus Simulator with GUI based on modbus-tk and Pymodbus

Checking Out the Source

$ git clone https://github.com/riptideio/modbus-simulator.git
$ cd modbus-simulator

Development Instructions

1. create virtualenv and install requirements

   $ # Kivy depends on Cython, Install Cython before running the requirements
   $ pip install Cython==0.29.2
   $ pip install -r requirements
   $ # Choose Modbus Backend modbus_tk or pymodbus (default)
   $ # To install pymodbus
   $ pip install pymodbus==1.5.2
   $ # To install modbus tk
   $ Pip install modbus-tk
   
   

2. Setup development environment

Running/Testing application

1. To run simulation with pymodbus backend, run ./tools/launcher
2. To run sumulation with modbus-tk as backend run ./tools/launcher mtk

A GUi should show up if all the requirements are met !!

All the settings for various modbus related settings (block size/minimum/maximun values/logging) could be set and accessed from settings panel (use F1 or click on Settings icon at the bottom)

Usage instructions

Packaging for different OS (Standalone applications)

A standalone application specific to target OS can be created with Kivy package manager

1. OSX
2. Linux
3. Windows

NOTE:

A cli version supporting both Modbus_RTU and Modbus_TCP is available here modbus_simu_cli