Serial protocol - How to detect frame start/end - Modbus

pacman

I've been dabbling with Modbus recently, but have hit a bit of a problem with detecting the 3.5 character silence at the start/end of a modbus RTU packet.

I was thinking that as I know the baud rate, I could use something like the Extended_FDSerial object and the rxDecTime function within it to get fairly accurate timing..

I'm not convinced that this is the best (or even if this is a good/mediocre) way of detecting the silence.

Can anyone suggest an alternative? {sample code would be appreciated...}

Thanks in advance..

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Keep a "last start bit cnt value" register, initialized to cnt when you start your serial object

then check to see if last cnt > 3.5 character intervals, if so, new packet... regardless, save cnt to last cnt/

pacman said...
I've been dabbling with Modbus recently, but have hit a bit of a problem with detecting the 3.5 character silence at the start/end of a modbus RTU packet.

I was thinking that as I know the baud rate, I could use something like the Extended_FDSerial object and the rxDecTime function within it to get fairly accurate timing..

I'm not convinced that this is the best (or even if this is a good/mediocre) way of detecting the silence.

Can anyone suggest an alternative? {sample code would be appreciated...}

Thanks in advance..

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Hi Pacman,
As previous said, here is my MODBUS protocol handler.
If you have any questions, you can ask me.

Best regards from France

Dave Matthews

I very much appreciate the code Olivier, any recent updates? I am just beginning to work on a version of the protocol relying heavily upon your work so generously posted. This week is the big push for me, so I hope you are still out there and perhaps available for questions.

Thanks again for publishing your creation,
Dave KI4PSR