Node-Red Reading Values from Click PLC

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I am having issues figuring out how to read values from from Click PLC using Modbus. I am reading 15 for quantity but i want to translate to a number instead of an array and display in Home assistant as an entity.

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Ok I think i figured out i need to use the buffer parser but i am getting the error “Call-Service attempted without connection to server” ?

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