How to read/debug serial comms from propeller - the PST does not show non-ASCII

Erlend

I am working to debug some serial command tranmissions from a piece of code & Propeller. The ones based on ASCII commands was easy, but now I want to debug a non-ASCII protocol. Any tips for a simple hex/bin terminal/viewer - assuming that PST cannot be set up to dislpay in that format?

Erlend

Cluso99

Can you change the prop output serial? I mean, output non ascii as hex (usually done between "<" and ">").

Mike G

The ones based on ASCII commands was easy, but now I want to debug a non-ASCII protocol.

How about using PST 's Dec or Hex method for debugging?

This might be overkill, but I use HDD's Serial Monitor (professional) quite a bit. It's handy for figuring out serial protocols when documentation is lacking.

It might make sense to roll your own, very basic, serial monitor.

Franklin

Realterm is a good free terminal emulator. http://realterm.sourceforge.net/

localroger

I wrote a utility for just this sort of thing:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/108807246/Sniff.exe

Just run it, it has a help menu to explain the options.

Erlend

I tried HDD's Serial Monitor, but that was too complex for me, tried realterm, but that one kept crashing, tried sniff, but could not understand how to use it. Then I found Indigo Terminal Emulator, and that works just perfect. Now I can see the bytes as transmitted by Propeller, and can debug/verify that they are correct before I connect Propeller to the various devices.

Erlend