SPM - 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:
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 PortMonitor 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