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Serial Port Monitor User Manual

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Introduction

Serial Port Monitor is a professional application for RS232/422/485 COM ports monitoring. It monitors, displays, logs and analyzes all serial port activity in a system. Serial Port Monitor is a powerful system utility for exploring the way OS works, monitoring how applications use ports, for tracking down problems in system or application configurations and processes. Advanced filtering, built-in search, professional send dialog (built-in terminal) and data exporting options build up a rich feature-list, which along with a user-friendly and flexible interface become its key advantages. Serial Port Monitor gives maximum functionality for advanced users of serial ports.

Serial Port Monitor main features:

  • Start/stop monitoring of the serial port which is already opened by other application (available in Professional Edition only)
  • Serial Port Monitor is completely compatible with Windows Vista
  • Serial Port Monitor and all of its internal drivers are digitally signed
  • Advanced serial port monitoring functionality. Any number of serial ports can be monitored simultaneously
  • Supports all COM-port types: standard on-board ports, extension board ports, software-based virtual COM ports, bluetooth serial ports, USB to SERIAL cradles, etc
  • Data transmission and logging
  • Advanced send dialog: easily send various types of data, apply aliases for faster typing and automation, send files and loop functions and commands, change serial port parameters on-the-fly (available in Professional Edition only)
  • Real-time data capture
  • Various monitoring visualizers: table view, line view, dump view, terminal view
  • Incoming and outgoing data streams logging
  • Multi-colored commands display in table view
  • Any software/hardware that works with a serial port can be monitored
  • Intercept and record all serial input/output control codes (IOCTLs), tracking their full details and parameters
  • Customizable monitoring session logging (several timestamp formats, different scale of notation, customizable logging string length etc.)
  • Convenient and flexible monitoring session's management: saving and loading all monitored data, exporting and redirecting to file functions
  • Monitoring session exporting (HTML, ASCII text, UNICODE text, Exсel CSV) and automatic redirection to file (Serial Port Monitor will automatically append all monitored data to a file in real-time)
  • Supports copying all recorded data to clipboard
  • Supports adding data automatically before and after packet to be transmitted
  • Full duplex mode supported
  • Control lines status visualized
  • Unique stream filtering tools with presets
  • All baudrates supported
  • Flexible configuration: stopbits, flow control, parity control, data bits, highlighting, etc.
  • Fast working and a precise request timing can be used to test different software
  • User-friendly flexible interface: the software is designed to provide easy access to serial ports, no programming skills are required

 

Serial Port Monitor can be used for:
  • monitoring serial data exchange between serial devices and any Windows application
  • debugging computer connection with peripheral devices using COM ports, such as modem, mini-ATS, projector, etc
  • solving problems with serial (RS232/422/485) data communication control networks and devices
  • implementing, debugging and reverse-engineering serial protocol
  • sending and capturing binary, ASCII and HEX data passing via serial connections
  • convenient interaction with any equipment over RS232/RS422/RS485 interface
  • serial devices drivers development
  • development of hardware with serial interfaces
  • hardware and software testing

Serial Port Monitor can be successfully used by:

  • programmers and beta-testers
  • quality-control engineers
  • peripheral software developers
  • OEM development and test engineers
  • system integrators
  • field service and maintenance engineers
  • industrial control and SCADA design engineers

System requirements:

  • Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/x64
  • at least one COM port