Communication with Multiple slave connected to com port (Modbus protocol based )

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I am developing an application in which Lets says 50-60 Modbus supporting devices (Slaves) are connected to a Com Port which are communicating with my application in request response mechanism.

I want after every 15 min. request should be sent to every meter and response to be received from meter one by one.
communicating with multiple slave (Modbus protocol based)

For this i am making the use of System.Timers.timer to call the method lets say ReadAllSlave() after every 15 min.
In ReadAllSlave() i have used For loop to send the request and to receive response and using thread.sleep to maintain the delay..! but it seems that its not working and loop is executing in damn wired way.

C#

private void StartPoll()
       {
          double txtSampleRate = 15 * 60 * 1000;
          timer.Interval = txtSampleRate;
          timer.AutoReset = true;
          timer.Start();
       }

C#

void timer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
     for(int index = 0; index<meterCount; Index++)
     {
           //Sending request to connected meter..  
           mb.SendFc3(m_slaveID[0], m_startRegAdd[0], m_noOfReg[0], ref value_meter);
           if (mb.modbusStatus == "Read successful")
               {
               
                       //Some code for writing the values in SQL Express database
               }

           //Wait for some time so that will not get timeout error for the next 
           //request..
           Thread.Sleep(10000);

      }
}

Can any one please suggest me the best approach to implement the same.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 2-Mar-13 4:18am

harshal samdani

Updated 2-Mar-13 4:54am

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OriginalGriff 2-Mar-13 9:23am

We can't answer that!
"loop is executing in damn wired way" means absolutely nothing without being able to see both the code, and your screen! And we can't see either of them.
Please, give us enough details to work out what you are doing, and a better idea of what is going wrong!
Use the "Improve question" widget to edit your question and provide better information.

harshal samdani 2-Mar-13 9:46am

Thanks for your feedback.. I have improved my question as per your instruction ..
Hope it will be enough for you to understand the problem..!
Looking for your valuable reply for the same.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-03-02T05:09:00

The first thing that springs to mind (apart from "Don't do that!" - but I'll come back to that later) is that I doubt very much if this approach is going to work. The problem is that unless your SendFC3 method waits for a response before returning, the communications medium must be pretty much instantaneous in order to get a read response in time to ever pass your if condition. And if it does, why are you sleeping for ten seconds afterwards?

The "Don't do that!" bit is pretty simple - why would you pause the main thread for long periods, when that just makes the user experience slow and awkward?

I'm not sure how your system works, but the way I would do it is to use a 10 second timer instead of 15 minutes, and each ten seconds kick off a background worker task to read a value from one meter. Each task would either time out itself (and respond that way, probably via the progress mechanism) or succeed and report that. That way, the communications are not blocking the user thread and each poll/response pair is kept more separate.

If your units time out then probably I would set the task up to send the request, wait five seconds and check for a response. If there isn't one, then timeout - if there is, save the results.

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