Modbus profile modification

[raunz]

Could someone help me forward with Modbus profiles.
I am trying to achieve perfect Modbus communication with Systemair ventilation unit and I've created a large JSON profile file - approx 90 registers.
When I load the JSON file for the first time, everything is perfect (new profile is created, I can a add device with that profile).

Question is, how can I change the JSON data after import?
For example, I want to change 1 registers data type or multiplier. How do i do it?

Can I just upload again the same JSON file ? When I do it, how I verify that did the changes take effect? (how the daemon accepts the changes: (lua /lib/genohm-scada/plugins/modbus/daemon.lua))
or
do I have to delete the profile and upload the modified JSON? This way I lose all the mappings to knx (30..40 mappings). Adding them back one-by-one isn't fun.

Please share me some instructions...

[admin]

JSON profile is used only when new device is created. After that changing/deleting the profile will not affect existing devices, you have to create new device from scratch in order to use updated profile.

You can try setting bus_address field in your profile for each coil/register that requires object mapping. Just make sure to use numeric id, not group address. You can convert from group address to id like this:

Code:

id = knxlib.encodega('1/1/1') -- result is 2305

[raunz]

JSON profile is used only when new device is created. After that changing/deleting the profile will not affect existing devices, you have to create new device from scratch in order to use updated profile.

You can try setting bus_address field in your profile for each coil/register that requires object mapping. Just make sure to use numeric id, not group address. You can convert from group address to id like this:

Code:

id = knxlib.encodega('1/1/1') -- result is 2305

Thanks!

Works like a charm.

PS. add the bus_address to documentation on the webpage too:
http://openrb.com/modbus-master-visual-m...addresses/
I didn't know, that it even exists...

[PassivPluss]

Thanks for this knowledge, i didnt either know about this and earlier made questions about this

[admin]

This is not really a feature, more like a side effect that can be used
I'll add it to the documentation and new versions will allow using group address instead of numeric id for direct mapping.

[PassivPluss]

Great. Everything that can be automated is great since it can save us work when programming