SPM - Starting new monitoring session
Monitoring session is a special term that defines the process of monitoring with Serial Port Monitor. Sessions can be started, paused, stopped, closed, saved, etc. When you launch Serial Port Monitor, you don't have any session activated immediately. Therefore you need to start one manually. Please, follow these instructions to start a new monitoring session:
1. Launch Serial Port Monitor
2. Choose "Session -> New session" from the main menu, or click "New" on the main toolbar, or press CTRL+N:
3. "New session" starting screen will be invoked:
This window allows selecting visualizers you would like to be displayed and used throughout your monitoring session. Table view displays the table of the recorded IRPs. Line view displays detailed information about requests, passed through particular serial line. Dump view displays sent and received data passed through serial line. Terminal view is a text console that shows all the received data as ASCII characters.
"Select all" and "Select none" buttons are convenient way to select all views or reset your selection.
"Start monitoring now" and "Start in new window" checkboxes determine immediate behavior of new monitoring session.
Once options are selected press "Start monitoring" to activate new monitoring session.
4. New monitoring window opens. All types of visualizers are selected:
