hey everyone . i was able to connect flexsim to node red but with the use of modbus simulator as intermidiate . can anyone have any sollution to connect nodered to flexsim without the use of intermidiate . !
connection nodered and flexsim without modbus simulator
FlexSim 23.1.2
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@Luciano Cavallero, @Tancredi Canonico, @Fiorenzo A, can you please take a look at this emulation-related question?
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Hi,
I taken a look the your video.
To connect Flexsim to node-red directly I installed the 'node-red-contrib-modbus' palette. This palette provide a set of nodes to read/write data using modbus and a node to create a modbus server.
Below a JSON of a simple flow that create a server and write a coil (manually): this coil's changes can be read by FlexSim using the a Modbus TCP control variable.
Copy this code and import in your node-red.
Let me know if this solve your question.
[
{
"id": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"type": "tab",
"label": "Flow 1",
"disabled": false,
"info": "",
"env": []
},
{
"id": "b1087276c245dd59",
"type": "modbus-server",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "local Modbus server",
"logEnabled": true,
"hostname": "0.0.0.0",
"serverPort": 10502,
"responseDelay": 100,
"delayUnit": "ms",
"coilsBufferSize": "1024",
"holdingBufferSize": "1024",
"inputBufferSize": "1024",
"discreteBufferSize": "1024",
"showErrors": true,
"x": 260,
"y": 180,
"wires": [
[
"2e4504ae37d46948"
],
[
"06a20a26617f8155"
],
[
"8ef2824f128f9705"
],
[
"114eb13f974d836c"
],
[
"be48a0148fd15ed5"
]
]
},
{
"id": "d85a3e8499f06b3b",
"type": "modbus-write",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "",
"showStatusActivities": false,
"showErrors": false,
"showWarnings": true,
"unitid": "1",
"dataType": "Coil",
"adr": "1",
"quantity": "1",
"server": "db6f9b3e.e5f338",
"emptyMsgOnFail": false,
"keepMsgProperties": false,
"delayOnStart": false,
"startDelayTime": "",
"x": 320,
"y": 380,
"wires": [
[
"8bd5cac1c87591b3"
],
[
"4b70615abbb827b9"
]
]
},
{
"id": "8bd5cac1c87591b3",
"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 1 write FALSE ",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "payload",
"targetType": "msg",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 580,
"y": 360,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "4b70615abbb827b9",
"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 2 write FALSE",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "payload",
"targetType": "msg",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 580,
"y": 400,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "2e4504ae37d46948",
"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 3",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 440,
"y": 120,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "06a20a26617f8155",
"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 4",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 440,
"y": 180,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "8ef2824f128f9705",
"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 5",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 440,
"y": 220,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "114eb13f974d836c",
"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 6",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 440,
"y": 260,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "be48a0148fd15ed5",
"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 7",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 440,
"y": 300,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "e620fa03c581a662",
"type": "inject",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "",
"props": [
{
"p": "payload"
},
{
"p": "topic",
"vt": "str"
}
],
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"topic": "",
"payload": "false",
"payloadType": "bool",
"x": 110,
"y": 360,
"wires": [
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]
]
},
{
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"type": "inject",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "",
"props": [
{
"p": "payload"
},
{
"p": "topic",
"vt": "str"
}
],
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"topic": "",
"payload": "true",
"payloadType": "bool",
"x": 90,
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]
]
},
{
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"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 2 write TRUE",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "payload",
"targetType": "msg",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 580,
"y": 520,
"wires": []
},
{
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"type": "modbus-write",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "",
"showStatusActivities": false,
"showErrors": false,
"showWarnings": true,
"unitid": "1",
"dataType": "Coil",
"adr": "1",
"quantity": "1",
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],
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]
]
},
{
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"type": "debug",
"z": "516f34a37fd9ca8f",
"name": "debug 1 write TRUE",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "payload",
"targetType": "msg",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 580,
"y": 480,
"wires": []
},
{
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"type": "inject",
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{
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},
{
"p": "topic",
"vt": "str"
}
],
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"topic": "",
"payload": "true",
"payloadType": "bool",
"x": 110,
"y": 480,
"wires": [
[
"edb022239470c36c"
]
]
},
{
"id": "db6f9b3e.e5f338",
"type": "modbus-client",
"name": "local",
"clienttype": "tcp",
"bufferCommands": true,
"stateLogEnabled": false,
"tcpHost": "127.0.0.1",
"tcpPort": "10502",
"tcpType": "DEFAULT",
"serialPort": "/dev/ttyUSB",
"serialType": "RTU-BUFFERD",
"serialBaudrate": "9600",
"serialDatabits": "8",
"serialStopbits": "1",
"serialParity": "none",
"serialConnectionDelay": "100",
"unit_id": 1,
"commandDelay": 1,
"clientTimeout": 1000,
"reconnectTimeout": 2000
}
]
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