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As part of my work with modbus I’ve created several tools that make testing node-red modbus flows easier. In particular I’ve created two dashboards . These dashboards are identical in appearance and they let you send modbus read and write commands form the browser. However the first dashboard interfaces directly with the modbus getter and write nodes whereas the second sends the commands via MQTT to  remote getter and setter nodes .

In the previous tutorial we looked at the modbus nodes and looked at how to read data from a Modbus server using node-red. In this tutorial we will look at writing data to a modus server using node-red.

Modbus is a de facto standard, truly open and the most widely used network protocol in the industrial manufacturing environment.-ref Modbus Faqs Because of its popularity there is a growing requirement for reading data and controlling Modbus devices over TCP/IP networks using node-red.

When data is read from a file or network it is read byte by byte into a data buffer. Data Buffers are temporary storage used for transferring data. To work with binary data we will need access to these buffers.

What is a Buffer?  -A buffer is an array of binary data. Each element in the array is 8 bit binary data. When are buffers used?  -Buffers are used when you need low level access to data usually that has been received on the network or from the file system. Data stored on computers and transferred between computers on networks is stored or sent as a sequence of bytes. When you read data from a file or from the network it is read into a data buffer. Node.js Buffer Module To work with buffers in node-red we use the node