diff --git a/packages/modules/common/modbus.py b/packages/modules/common/modbus.py
index 9f5fc13e50..5de47a04aa 100644
--- a/packages/modules/common/modbus.py
+++ b/packages/modules/common/modbus.py
@@ -305,6 +305,10 @@ def __init__(self,
         host = parsed_url.host
         if parsed_url.port is not None:
             port = parsed_url.port
+        kwargs.setdefault('retry_on_empty', True)
+        kwargs.setdefault('retry_on_invalid', True)
+        kwargs.setdefault('retries', 2)
+        kwargs.setdefault('timeout', 2)
         super().__init__(ModbusTcpClient(host, port, framer, **kwargs), address, port, sleep_after_connect)
 
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8be9bbed1e..970b7fb43e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 typing-extensions==4.13.2
 jq==1.1.3
 paho_mqtt==1.6.1
-pymodbus==2.5.2
+pymodbus==2.5.3
 pytest==8.4.2
 requests_mock==1.9.3
 lxml==6.1.0