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Serial Port information and software

metron9metron9 Posts: 1,100
edited 2010-07-16 07:20 in General Discussion
Just found this site. Tried the BillSerialMonitor free software too. Very nice. Wow long link Links for serial software at bottom of linked page.


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Software site for BillSerialMonitor

http://www.billproduction.com/

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  • metron9metron9 Posts: 1,100
    edited 2010-07-09 18:05
    After testing a few serial port monitors I think I understand a bit more.

    The BillSerialMonitor allows you to for example monitor on the same PC a program that is communicating through a com port to a device connected to it.
    It uses a virtual port as an intermediary port as com ports can only be opened by one program in windows.

    So you would open the billserialmonitor and select a virtual port of com10. Your program running on the PC would open COM10.
    The Billserialmonitor would feed the data it gets in on com10 to the actual com port your device is connected too.

    The Serialportmonitor by http://www.eltima.com/products/serial-port-monitor/ is different as it allows you to simply monitor a com port without using a virtual port.

    Say you have a PC program in VB communicating with a stamp over com1. Simply open a session and monitor com1.
    The dump screen looks just like the DEBUG output dump in real time so monitoring and designing software for serial com is made easy as cake.
    This one has a 14 day trial.

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  • metron9metron9 Posts: 1,100
    edited 2010-07-12 15:30
    To communicate through the serial port to the web, here is a link to some free software that allows you to do this.

    Basically any language you program with that can open a serial port can now communicate through tcpip.

    This site also has a port data logger for parallel and serial ports it can monitor on your PC even when they are opened from another program so it monitors
    both incoming and outgoing signals and stores the data for future analyses.

    http://www.hw-group.com/products/hw_vsp/index_en.html

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  • dMajodMajo Posts: 855
    edited 2010-07-16 07:20
    It is 7 years now that I am using eltima products (not only the serial port monitor: serial splitter, serial to ethernet, vsp ax, vspd xp, vspd .net) and I am very happy with them. I have experience on OS Win2Kpro & srv, WinXPpro and Win2K3srv: never had problems.

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