Modbus Sensor

The modbus sensor allows you to gather data from Modbus registers.

To use your Modbus sensors in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yml entry
sensor:
  platform: modbus
  registers:
    - name: Sensor1
      unit_of_measurement: °C
      slave: 1
      register: 100
    - name: Sensor2
      unit_of_measurement: mg
      slave: 1
      register: 110
      count: 2
    - name: Sensor3
      unit_of_measurement: °C
      slave: 1
      register: 120
      register_type: input
      data_type: float
      scale: 0.01
      offset: -273.16
      precision: 2

Configuration variables:

• registers array (Required): The array contains a list of relevant registers to read from.
  • name (Required): Name of the sensor.
  • slave (Required): The number of the slave (Optional for tcp and upd Modbus).
  • register (Required): Register number.
  • register_type (Optional): Modbus register type (holding, input), default holding.
  • unit_of_measurement (Optional): Unit to attach to value.
  • count (Optional): Number of registers to read.
  • reverse_order (Optional): Reverse the order of registers when count >1, default False.
  • scale (Optional): Scale factor (output = scale * value + offset), default 1.
  • offset (Optional): Final offset (output = scale * value + offset), default 0.
  • precision (Optional): Number of valid decimals, default 0.
  • data_type (Optional): Response representation (int, uint, float, custom). If float selected, value will be converted to IEEE 754 floating point format. Default int.
  • structure (Optional): If data_type is custom specify here a double quoted python struct format string to unpack the value. See python documentation for details. Ex: “>i”.

It’s possible to change the default 30 seconds scan interval for the sensor updates as shown in the Platform options documentation.

Full example

Example a temperature sensor with a 10 seconds scan interval:

sensor:
- platform: modbus
  scan_interval: 10
  registers:
    - name: Room_1
      slave: 10
      register: 0
      register_type: holding
      unit_of_measurement: °C
      count: 1
      scale: 0.1
      offset: 0
      precision: 1
      data_type: int