Arduino Library...?

[gicking]

hi Max,

I really like your Modbus library, as it just does the jobs, no frills... :-) To increase visibility, have you considered making it available as an Arduino library?

PS: my STM8 port of your library can be found here. Thanks again!

[mbs38]

Hi Georg,

thx for your message. Highly appreciated. I have been asked several times to bring the lib to Arduino but I never really use Arduino so this is extremely low on my list. So low in fact that I will probably never do it. If someone else did it I would be more than happy.

Thanks for pointing me to your STM8 port. Very nicely done. I will probably use it. I've been thinking about porting to STM for a while :-)

Best,
Max

[gicking]

Hi Max,

:-) On 2nd thought porting yaMBSiavr to Arduino would probably be pretty awkward, because the Arduino framework does not support to attach functions to Uart interrupts out of the box. While lib NeoHWSerial adds this for the 8-bit AVR boards, this is not possible for the newer 32-bit ARM, e.g. Due (see this discussion), let alone the plethora of "Arduino-like" boards.

I believe that your implementation is correct, and that handling Modbus via polling is not the way to go. However, I did find several Arduino libraries which seem to do a pretty good job if the protocol handler is called every 1ms or so. So please ignore my proposal, and let's keep your lib as it is, i.e. for bare-metal programmers.

As for my STM8 port, please feel free to use it! How about you add a "port" folder to your repo for different kinds of controllers?

In any case thanks again for your effort! Well done...

Regards, Georg

[mbs38]

Hi,
sorry for the late response. Thx for pointing me to your STM8 port! :-)

Best regards,
Max