Chapter 2: Setup and Operation
Stride MQTT Gateway User Manual, 1st Edition
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Setup Modbus Devices
The gateway can communicate with up to 32 Modbus RTU Slaves via RS-485 and up to eight Modbus TCP
Servers or Modbus RTU over TCP Servers via Ethernet. After the communications channels are defined, you
can configure the connection and variables for each Modbus device.
Configure Modbus Device
Click on the
DEVICES
tab to define the Modbus devices to be queried.
Click the “+” icon to add a new device, or click on an existing device to edit it.
• Enter a
Name
for the device.
• Select an existing
Channel
for the device.
• Enter the device
Address (Unit ID)
.
• Check
Block sampling
to combine contiguous variables into one query