ChrisFAN1215 / pylibmodbus

Python wrapper for libmodbus written with CFFI

pylibmodbus

Python Interface for libmodbus written with CFFI. This libmodbus wrapper is compatible with Python 2 and Python 3.

This wrapper is only compatible with libmodbus v3.1.2 and above.

Required packages:

• python-dev and libffi-dev
• libmodbus and libmodbus-dev

Licensed under BSD 3-Clause (see LICENSE file for details).

Installation

The package `pylibmodbus' is available from Pypi but you must install libmodbus before using is (see https://libmodbus.org for details).

Example for Debian:

apt-get install libmodbus
pip install pylibmodbus

Tests

Before running the test suite, you need to launch a TCP server. You can use the server provided by libmodbus in tests directory:

./tests/bandwidth-server-many-up

Once this server is running, you can launch the Python tests with:

python -m tests