UART port issue

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Hi Guys,

I am new to node red i have an issue with node red using the uart port on pi.

My goal in this is to read Energy meter data via UART port using modbus and share same data on MQTT.

Details:
Starting as a systemd service.
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Here is the error message I get when I use UART /dev/ttyAMA0:

(node:21124) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Port is not open
at unixWrite (/home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/@serialport/bindings/lib/unix-write.js:25:15)
(node:21124) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 2)

If I try the same with the USB port it works fine.

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the built in port needs to be enabled outside of Node-RED. eg

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I have tried all the things in the article but no luck the error is not shown but even does not read the data.
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Have tried using the standard node-red-node-serialport node to read the data.
I made the changes similar to what the link above describes, and have been reliably receiving data ok at a baud rate of 38400.

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Paul in my case i am reading modbus Rs485 data by using node-red-contrib-modbus

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Do you have a 485 converter connected to the UART? Or are you using a usb to RS485? Or something else?

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Yes I am using RS485 hat on pi.

Before i was using same unit to convert Modbus RTU(RS485) to Modbus TCP/IP with python code.

With that it was working good.

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