modbus-connection
A backend-neutral Modbus connection abstraction for Python.
The top-level modbus_connection package provides the abstract
ModbusConnection class, the ModbusUnit
Protocol, and a
small exception hierarchy. Two interchangeable backends implement them:
tmodbus and
pymodbus. The bare install pulls
neither.
One physical Modbus link addresses many units (1–247). Many consumers can share one serialized connection instead of each opening a competing socket. This package is the connection abstraction that makes that sharing possible while keeping the backend swappable.
Install
pip install "modbus-connection[tmodbus]" # tmodbus backend
pip install "modbus-connection[pymodbus]" # pymodbus backend
Example
Model a device once, then construct, update, read, and write it. The optional
modbus_connection.model framework maps a device's registers and coils to typed
attributes and reads the whole device in as few Modbus calls as possible.
import asyncio
from modbus_connection import ModbusTcpParams
from modbus_connection.model import Component, gauge, uint32, coil
from modbus_connection.tmodbus import ModbusConnection
class Meter(Component):
voltage = gauge(0, 0.1, unit="V") # scaled 16-bit register
"""Grid voltage."""
current = gauge(1, 0.1, unit="A")
"""Grid current."""
energy = uint32(2, unit="Wh") # 32-bit over two registers
"""Lifetime energy."""
relay = coil(0, writable=True)
"""Load relay."""
async def main() -> None:
conn = ModbusConnection(ModbusTcpParams(host="192.168.1.50", port=502))
try:
meter = Meter(conn.for_unit(1))
await meter.async_update() # one pooled read per space
print(meter.voltage, meter.current, meter.energy, meter.relay)
await meter.write("relay", True) # write a writable field
finally:
await conn.close()
asyncio.run(main())
Documentation
The website documents the rest: the other transports (UDP, serial, TLS), the
field types and read planning, repeated sub-units, the Device base class for
a device library, the SunSpec field types and model generator, the in-memory
mock backend for tests, and the exception hierarchy.
https://home-assistant-libs.github.io/modbus-connection/
Develop
uv sync --extra tmodbus
uv run pytest
The suite runs both backends against an in-process tmodbus server over TCP,
UDP, RTU-over-TCP, serial and TLS, so it covers real framing and error
responses. Running the pymodbus client against the tmodbus server also checks
the two implementations against each other. tests/conftest.py has the
datastore and the server helpers.
Formatting and linting is ruff and type checking is mypy. CI enforces both. Run them locally with:
uv run mypy
Install the commit hook with prek so code is formatted on commit:
uvx prek install # set up the git hook
uvx prek run --all-files # format + lint everything now
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