RS-485 configuration Help

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Hello,

I came across this tutorial on configuration for RS-485 serial communication, but I am new to this and I need some clarifications on the procedure.

My beaglebone black is currently running on the latest Debian image

Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone70 #1 SMP Fri Jan 23 02:15:42 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

On the website http://inspire.logicsupply.com/2014/09/beaglebone-rs-485-communication.html

Let’s dive into the Kernel a bit to to see how RS-485 works in Linux; the standard steps to put a UART into RS-485 mode are:

  1. Open the special tty file
  2. Create a serial_rs485 struct and set the desired configuration values
  3. Pass the configured struct to Kernel driver by using ioctl on the open serial port file descriptor

I don’t understand do these steps, where do I find the special tty file and as well as creating the serial_rs485 struct. Can someone guide me through this part?

Thank you.

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this is all basic C coding
http://inspire.logicsupply.com/2014/09/beaglebone-rs-485-communication.html
gives you all the coding examples you need

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Ok…I seems to got it working after configuring the GPIO pin for RTS. However, when I tried to communicate with modbus device, it gives me an “Checksum error in rtu mode”. I am using minimal modbus library, and my code works fine when communicating between windows and my device.

I have tested my connection with the scope and it seems to get getting the correct output

When testing it with the minimal modbus library, the slave ID, function code and payload data is correct. It just seems to have problem getting pass the error check.

I have configured my baud rate and parity check correctly, but I can’t seems to figure out why it’s giving me this checksum error. Anyone have any ideas where the problem is?

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Here is the actual error report back from terminal:

ValueError: Checksum error in rtu mode: ‘\x01x’ instead of ‘|\xa3’ . The response is: ‘\x00\x01\x06\x00\xff\x00\x01x’ (plain response: ‘\x00\x01\x06\x00\xff\x00\x01x’)

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Ok…I guess I can answer my own question, just as a reference for future users getting the same problem. The RS485 switching with GPIO pin as a RTS flow control is too slow for modbus applications. It was able to send message to registers, but it was unable to capture the response from device. Hence, I have switch to using the FTDI USB to RS485 cable and it worked perfectly through /dev/ttyUSB0.

hope this helps people in the future with similar problem.

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Hi,
could you help me to understood why my raspberry give me CRC error?
If you solved your issue I hope i could solve it

here my code and my error:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import minimalmodbus

instrument = minimalmodbus.Instrument(’/dev/ttyUSB0’, 1) # port name, slave address (in decimal)
instrument.serial.parity = minimalmodbus.serial.PARITY_EVEN
instrument.serial.baudrate = 9600
instrument.serial.timeout = 1

print “Serial Settings: %s” % (instrument)

instrument.debug = True

print instrument.read_register(70, 2)

ValueError: Checksum error in rtu mode: ‘\x01e’ instead of ‘+\xe4’ . The response is: ‘\x01\x03\x00F\x00\x01e’ (plain response: ‘\x01\x03\x00F\x00\x01e’)