Modbus ROS Comm Package Instructions

This package is part of AgRobot 2 Project.

This package is only used for electromechanical devices' communication and control of low-level functions, advanced scheduling and control are completed by other ROS nodes.

See examples for reference usage.

Install pyModbus

• Fetch pyModbus source code

  cd ~
  git clone git://github.com/pymodbus-dev/pymodbus
  cd pymodbus && git checkout v3.5.2

• Prepare install requirements

  sudo apt install python3-pip
  pip install -r requirements.txt

  If errors occur when executing above commands and these errors are related to versions of docutils, the following commands may help a little.

  pip install --upgrade docutils==0.18.1
  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Install pyModbus

  pip install -e .
  pre-commit install

• Make a confirmation about the installation

  pip show pymodbus