Controlling Belimo Valves

Belimo valves are one of the most recognised and widely used makes of valve in the HVAC industry. The libraries on this page provide the tools to control and monitor valves using the MQTT open controls protocol and Node-RED.

• Belimo Website
• SR24A-MOD product page and instructions
• Belimo Modbus information

Modbus Registers

Note that the register number is one more than address.

Operation Registers

Service Registers

Connecting via FTDI Cable

FTDI -> Actuator

Orange -> Grey

Yellow -> Pink

Black -> Not Connected

Example Commands

Read Modbus Setpoint

As an example, to read the Setpoint requires sending to the device (1 default) a FC3 read command (3) calling for register 1 (0 0), requesting a single value (0 1), ending with the CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check).

In modbus the following characters would be sent to the valve over RS485 (shown in decimal and hex):

dec: [ 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 132, 10 ]  hex: [0x01, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x84, 0x0a]

Read Analogue Setpoint

The analogue setpoint register (13) is different from the Modbus setpoint (1). Register 119 (Sepoint Selection) choses which is valid.

dec: [ 1, 3, 0, 12, 0, 1, 68, 9 ]

When reading the analogue setpoint, note that analogue values less than 2v will result in unreadable values (65030+). The valve will still be closed.

Set to Modbus Control

dec: [ 1, 6, 0, 118, 0, 1, 169, 208 ]

Set to Analogue Control

dec:  [ 1, 6, 0, 118, 0, 0, 104, 16 ]

Open Valve 100%

dec: [ 1, 6, 0, 0, 39, 16, 147, 246 ]

Close Valve

dec: [ 1, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 137, 202 ]

CRC Calculation

A Cyclic Redundancy Check is a value at the end of a Modbus message that is calculated from the message and can be used to check that received message is uncorrupted.

The following function takes a buffer as an input. For example, in the Close Valve example above, the input is [ 1, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0 ] and the calculated crc value is [137, 202 ].

function crc16(buffer) {

    var crc = 0xFFFF;
    var odd;

    for (var i = 0; i < buffer.length; i++) {
        crc = crc ^ buffer[i];

        for (var j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
            odd = crc & 0x0001;
            crc = crc >> 1;
            if (odd) {
                crc = crc ^ 0xA001;
            }
        }
    }

    crc  = "0000" + crc.toString(16);
    crc = crc.substr(-4);

    return crc;
}

FC3 Read Register Function

The following function can be used to read values using FC3 command.

It takes an input msg as follows:

msg.payload = { fc:6, address:1, register:1, rlength:1, targetv:5000 };

var address = msg.payload.address || msg.address ||8;
var fc = msg.payload.fc || msg.fc || 3;
var register = msg.payload.register || msg.register || 1;
var rlength = msg.payload.rlength || msg.rlength || 1;
var targetv = msg.targetv; 
 
register = register - 1;  // offset 

var r1 = Math.floor(register / 256);
var r2 = register % 256;



if (fc != 3 && fc != 6) { return null; }

if (fc == 3) {   
    
    var tosend = String.fromCharCode(devAddress) + String.fromCharCode(3);
    tosend += String.fromCharCode(r1) + String.fromCharCode(r2);
    tosend += String.fromCharCode(0) + String.fromCharCode(rlength);
    
    var crcString = crc16(Buffer.from(tosend, 'ascii'));
    tosend += String.fromCharCode(parseInt(crcString.substr(2,2),16)) + String.fromCharCode(parseInt(crcString.substr(0,2),16))t;
    
    msg.payload  = Buffer.from(tosend, 'ascii');    
    
    return msg;

}

Control Modes

Modbus register 119 is used to set the control mode: 0: Analog 1: Modbus (see example commands).

Modbus Control

The valve setpoint is controlled through register 1.

Analogue Control

The valve setpoint is controlled through the analogue input connection using a 2-10v signal.

Analogue Hybrid Mode

Refers to analogue control with Modbus connected for additional functions.