<![CDATA[Arduino Modbus library doesn't support floats]]>Hello everybody.

I'm using jpmzometa modbus library with mango and works like a charm, but it has a little big... issue: it doesn't support floats.

If I make an analog read I will get a 0-1023 value and I can send it with the library but I need to make some operations in mango to convert it to the temperature, pressure,.. value.

But sometimes 4 byte precision is needed to send or receive calculations.

How can I make some trick to send and receive floats? Think in a network with 15 arduinos sending/receiving 10 floats each one.

Thank you.

]]>https://forum.mango-os.com/topic/621/arduino-modbus-library-doesn-t-support-floatsRSS for NodeThu, 17 Sep 2026 00:15:50 GMTFri, 05 Nov 2010 11:34:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Arduino Modbus library doesn't support floats on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:29:01 GMT]]>The problem with the library is it doesn't support 4 byte types. The writer of the library says that the canonical (and old) rtu specification doesn't support 4 byte types.

thank you

]]>https://forum.mango-os.com/post/4871https://forum.mango-os.com/post/4871Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:29:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Arduino Modbus library doesn't support floats on Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:57:16 GMT]]>I'm not sure of the capabilities in Arduino, but i suppose at the least you could get fixed decimal precision, if not floating point. If you can take a value in Arduino that is, say, a decimal(10,5), i.e. 5 orders of magnitude on each side of the decimal place. With 4 bytes you can store from 0 to 4,294,967,295, or 0 to 42,949.67296 if you divide by 100000. So, multiply the number by 100000 and store in 2 x 2 bytes. Then in Mango read the number as a 4 byte unsigned int and give it a multiplier of 0.00001. I think that should do it.

]]>https://forum.mango-os.com/post/4862https://forum.mango-os.com/post/4862Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:57:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Arduino Modbus library doesn't support floats on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:03:29 GMT]]>Yes, you're right.

And, if somebody is listening... I would need a Modbus library for Arduino that supports floats.

But, mlohbihler, is it possible to make a trick to use 2+2 bytes to get a 4 byte float?

Thank you

]]>https://forum.mango-os.com/post/4853https://forum.mango-os.com/post/4853Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:03:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Arduino Modbus library doesn't support floats on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:04:48 GMT]]>Just to confirm, this is not a Mango question, correct? I assume you would need a Modbus impl for Arduino that supports floats.

]]>https://forum.mango-os.com/post/4850https://forum.mango-os.com/post/4850Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:04:48 GMT