I think if you can convert the RS485 to RS232 you can hook into a serial port on one of the Routerboards that support serial. Then in the Mikrotik settings you can hook this serial port up to a TCP port and connect to it over telnet/WindowsVirtualCOMport/socat/netcat. So: * Choose a Routerboard that supports Wifi and serial * Set up the Other End to capture the data from the serial port over TCP/IP using one of the above methods. Can you have your MOBUS application at the Other End hook up to a virtual COM port in Windows? How do you want to capture or store the data? On 8 June 2016 at 11:48, Steve Hille <stevehille84@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings all,

I'm wondering if anyone has or is collecting data from MODBUS / RS485 or other type industrial electrical equipment using Mikrotik gear, or if it is even possible?

I'm thinking perhaps if I can somehow interface the MODBUS into a Groove or something similar as a 'station' and then shoot the data off to my access point, we will be able to collect data from this industrial equipment, just hoping for some gotchas before I really get into it.

Cheers,

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On 8/06/2016 11:18 AM, Steve Hille wrote:

Greetings all,

I'm wondering if anyone has or is collecting data from MODBUS / RS485 or other type industrial electrical equipment using Mikrotik gear, or if it is even possible?

I'm thinking perhaps if I can somehow interface the MODBUS into a Groove or something similar as a 'station' and then shoot the data off to my access point, we will be able to collect data from this industrial equipment, just hoping for some gotchas before I really get into it.

Cheers,

Steve _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au

Hi Steve I have no idea about Mikrotik gear but I've done this sort of things for years using a number of different boards running Linux. Nowdays RPI is a good option. I've written tools which will run as a mobus master or slave, talking TCP or RTU. Some of the code for this is on github at https://github.com/latproc/clockwork