Hi,

indeed i want to go for Modbus TCP, but unfortunately my ventilation system has 
only Modbus RTU. The BB will act as a Gateway between Modbus TCP and Serial 
Modbus RTU.

Am 30. November 2016 21:15:14 MEZ, schrieb William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com>:
>On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Bouni <bo...@owee.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have almost the same situation. I have a Beaglebone Green and the
>> Waveshare RS485 CAN CAPE mentioned in the first post.
>> In the near future I want to use RS485 to build a Modbus TCP to
>Modbus RTU
>> Gateway to communicate with a central ventilation system in my house.
>>
>> What i found out so far is that the Waveshare cape can by default
>only
>> receive or transmit, but not both because it has no way to switch the
>/RE
>> and DE pins of the MAX485.
>> But in my opinion the middle pin of the 485_RSE JMP Jumper header
>could be
>> connected to a appropriate pin using a jumper wire.
>>
>> My problem at the moment is that i have no idea if the kernel shipped
>with
>> the BeagleBone Green (3.8 something) is able to handle RS485,
>especially
>> direction switching.
>>
>> I've read that I should use the omap-serial driver instead of the
>> 8XXX-serial driver and that i have to apply some overlay stuff, but
>> actually 'm completely lost.
>> It would be very helpful if somebody could point out what steps i
>need to
>> do in order to get RS485 working.
>>
>>
>We bought a Logicsupply RS485 / CAN cape for a similar purpose. The CAN
>device we were trying to communicate with was actually a Schneider AC
>inverter, using a proprietary CANBUS protocol called "Xanbus"(
>Originally
>Xantrex ).
>
>Anyway, for your case, I'm wondering why you need RS485 / Modbus at
>all.
>Considering the beaglebone has an ethernet port . . .I mean, you're
>probably going to want to use Cat5e, or Cat6 anyway, right ?
>
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