Serial Port Monitor

Send data to COM port and analyze reaction of the serial device.

Serial Port Monitor displays, logs and analyzes all serial data exchange between serial devices and any application.

Install Serial Port Monitor and track all data flows from any software/hardware that works with a serial port. In other words, Serial Port Monitor is a powerful system utility for monitoring the usage of serial ports, exploring OS work, tracking down problems in system or application configurations and processes.

Serial Port Monitor allows you to:
  • Send data to serial COM port
  • Modify serial port`s settings and data you want to send immediately
  • Capture data in real-time mode
  • Analyze the work of any application or serial device

Now Eltima Software offers two types of licensing policy: Standard and Professional editions of Serial Port Monitor

Common objectives and our solutions:

  • Emulate data sending to serial device
Terminal mode feature of Serial Port Monitor

You can send any data in strings as well as in other different numeration systems (binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal) to monitored serial port as if it was sent on behalf of monitored application using terminal mode feature of Serial Port Monitor. Thus, you can follow the reaction of the serial device being monitored on some special commands. Specify sending data format and begin monitoring serial port activity. Port Monitor lets you change input data stream parameters and easily modify COM port settings (stopbits, flow control, parity control, data bits, highlighting, etc.).

  • Monitor and analyze Serial Port activity
    It monitors, displays, logs and analyzes all serial port activity in a system. Serial Port Monitor is attached to a COM port, opened by any application or hardware. All the data that go through the monitored serial port will be displayed in this monitoring tool.
  • View and Filter monitored data
    Serial Port lets you choose monitoring filters, thus saving your time and letting you track down only the events you are interested in. Serial Port Monitor can process all standard serial I/O Control requests and other major functions including IRP. Both (IOCTLs and IRPs) can be filtered in Serial Port Monitor.

Serial Port Monitor offers several viewers for more comfortable and reliable monitoring process:

- Table viewer - it presents the table consisting of the recorded Input/output Request Packets;
- Line viewer - features detailed information about each request passing UP/DOWN the monitored serial port;
- Dump viewer - displays sent and received data in hexadecimal and string formats as a data dump;
- Terminal viewer - works as the text console showing all the received data as ASCII characters.

Serial Port Monitor overview:

  • Start/stop monitoring of the serial port that is already opened by other applicationnew! (Professional version only)
  • Advanced Send Dialog: send various types of data, send files and loop functions and commandsnew! (Professional version only)
  • On-the-fly data modification by sending data of various formats (string, binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, mixed) new!
  • Monitoring session exporting (XLS, HTML, ASCII text, UNICODE text) and automatic redirection to file (Serial Port Monitor will automatically append all monitored data to a file in real-time)
  • Any number of serial ports can be monitored simultaneously
  • Data transmission and logging
  • Real-time data capture
  • Various monitoring visualizers: table view, line view, dump view, terminal view
  • Incoming and outgoing data streams logging
  • 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
  • Monitoring session logging
  • Supports copying all recorded data to clipboard
  • Emulate data sending on behalf of monitored application via unique internal terminal module
  • Full duplex mode supported
  • Control lines status visualized
  • Unique stream filtering tools with presets
  • All baudrates supported: up to 256000
  • Supports all COM port types: standard on-board ports, extension board ports, SERIAL-via-USB adapters
  • Convenient monitoring sessions management: saving, loading, importing, etc.
  • Flexible configuration: stopbits, flow control, parity control, data bits, highlighting, etc.
  • User-friendly interface: the software is designed to provide easy access to the serial ports, no programming skills are required
  • Completely compatible with Windows Vistanew!

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 port, 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
  • Software and hardware testing

Serial Port Monitor is aimed to assist:

  • 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
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Testimonials

With Serial Port Monitor we have completed the period of serial connection debugging in two days, though it could have taken more than a week with other tools we have. It really helped us to find the errors in the connection to serial port that stayed hidden all the previous days. Thank you guys, you really helped us out!

Ben from California

Product info
  • File size:
    3.45MB
  • Latest build:
    4.0.2.281
  • Release date:
    15th March, 2007
  • Build compiled:
    12th February, 2008
  • changelogRead changelog
Work with Windows Vista
Demo limitations
  • 14-day trial period
System requirements
  • Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
  • at least one free COM port
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