lcc/knot-thing-simulator

knot-modbus-simulator

KNoT Modbus Simulator is part of the KNoT project. It aims to provide an industry protocol simulator by creating a tcp server instance so that KNoT Things can be described and tested by KNoT ecosystem. At this moment, the supported industrial protocols are:

• Modbus

Dependencies

Build:

• python3 or higher
• pyserial v3.1
• modbus-tk v1.1.1

How to install dependencies:

• Install with pip: sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configure the simulator

The simulator provides an easy configuration template (config/config.json). In order to create a data server model of industrial things you need to follow the config template, where the fields are explained bellow:

• id: Specifies the data-server id to be modeled, id > 0.
• register_data: Represents a non-discrete (non-binary) data-block.
  • Each register_data has the following fields:
    • address: Identifies data inside the data-block related to non-discrete block.
    • value: List of values with little-endian representation in Hexa-decimal.
• digital_data: Represents a discrete (binary) data-block.
  • Each digital_data has the following fields:
    • address: Identifies data inside the data-block related to discrete block.
    • value: List of values with little-endian representation in binary.

Running the Simulator

• Running the simulator with template config: sudo python3 main.py

• Running a simulator with a custom config file: sudo python3 main.py -c <config_file>.json

License

All KNoT Simulator files are under LGPL v2.1 license, you can check COPYING file for details.