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pyhys / minimalmodbus

Easy-to-use Modbus RTU and Modbus ASCII implementation for Python.
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Why cannot you use hex numbers as registers? #93

Closed BenediktBurger closed 1 year ago

BenediktBurger commented 1 year ago

The docstrings state for the registeraddress: "use decimal numbers, not hex". However, you can give an integer like 0x10 and it will be an integer of value 16, as far as I know.

j123b567 commented 1 year ago

I'm not the author, but there may be a lot of documentation on some instruments that use numbers in base 16, but without suffixes and prefixes. So basically it can mean "watch the base of the number".

So the wording should be probably better and you can freely use 0x10 instead of 16. But if you see 10 in the documentation of some instrument, you should be careful if they mean 10 or 0x10.

BenediktBurger commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the clarification.