Modbus server URSim

[thierry.beboux]

Hello,

I’m making a new application for my industry.
The purpose is to control the robot by an external application.
The robot act like a server and the application is the client.

Now, I’m at the begining, but the communication is not working.

In the ursim, I have this code in the BeforeStart program :

def beforeProgram():
ipAddress = “192.168.56.1”
portNumber = 136
signalName = “Communication”
modbus_add_signal(ipAddress, 255, portNumber, 0, signalName)
end

And in my application (in C#), I have that :

client = new ModbusClient(192.168.56.1, 136);
client.Connect();

I have try multiplical tries, but that does’nt work…
I have check already check that my virtual machin alow ursim to create a server

Anyone could help me ?

[Ebbe]

Hi @thierry.beboux,

Welcome to the UR community forum!

This topic might be helpful to you. And reading this article is also worth reading.

Best regards
Ebbe

[thierry.beboux]

HI @Ebbe,

Thanks for your answer.

Now, my server is created. But I can’t reach the good address.

In first time, I try to read the input in address 0 (like documentation says) or the analog output (address 16).

Code: modbus_add_signal(“192.168.56.101”, 255, 0, 0, “Communication”)

In ursim, I try to toggle the input in simulation mode, but I can’t see any change in my application. I think that I don’t have the good address, but I don’t know where to look…

Have you more informations to help me again ?

Best regards

[Ebbe]

Hi @thierry.beboux,

I am not quite sure where you are having your issues and where your C# application is running?

As I stated here, it is a nice exercise from URScript to connect to local host on “127.0.0.1”:

UR Robot as Modbus Client

Hi @mehmet_bilgin_1905, The addresses you have marked in Polyscope, is what Polyscope uses for the signal_address in URScript. It is the register on you PLC that you need to specify here. A nice approach is to connect to local host on IP address “127.0.0.1” and add a Register Output signal with address 1. Then you will see that it maps to the outputs of the robot and you can modify them by writing a bit pattern in the value field. Ebbe

Ebbe

[thierry.beboux]

Thanks for your answers.

I have found my probleme and solved id

But I still have a question. I can read and write the registers output and read the input.

Is there a possibility to write/read a register that is note connected to a physically port ?

For example : I want to send to the robot a start command, but I can’t make it without a physically output.

Can I send an information purely virtual ?

Béboux

[Ebbe]

Hi @thierry.beboux

Address 128-255 is general purpose register that you can use for that purpose.

Ebbe