Serial Monitor Lite is a serial port monitoring software designed for everyone who works with serial ports. It contains basic features and allows you to deal with serial ports easily.
Software serial port monitor Rs232 sniffer with protocol analyzer and packet data logger. This monitoring utility can spy, capture, view, log, analyze, test com ports activity performing com port connection and traffic analysis with data acquisition and control. You can use this system as device interface testing tool, modem data transfer viewer and so on.
Serial Monitor can be successfully used for monitoring data flow between serial devices and Windows application, debugging com port connections, developing, reverse-engineering and implementing serial protocol, serial device driver development, serial hardware development, research the functionality of any third-party software and hardware, testing software and hardware. Serial Monitor can be successfully used by programmers, beta-testers, software developers, hardware engineers, IT support specialists, industrial control personnel, SCADA software engineers, science technicians, systems integrators, consultants, lab experts, University students.
Serial Monitor usage areas:
Fax-Modems
mini-ATS
Mobile Phones
Diagnostic equipment
Controlling and measuring equipment (oscillographs, manometers, sensors...)
Pocket PC
Mice
Digital Cams
Network equipment
Serial device servers, NPort servers
Wireless LAN equipment
Routers, Multiplexers, Hubs, Switches
MIDI-serial devices
Multiport Serial Boards
RS-232 to RS-422/485 converters
Serial to fiber converters
Network-enable serial devices
Serial device controllers
Entertaining equipment, simulators
HVAC, door entry systems, bar code readers
Card readers
Cash registers
Bar-code readers
· interception and analysis of data transfers between any serial device and Windows application
· debugging any serial software or hardware
· development of serial peripheral hardware
· development of serial device drivers
· researching the functionality of any third-party software and hardware
· implementing, debugging and testing serial protocol between device and device driver
· analyzing and reverse-engineering protocols
· recording and replaying logs while debugging the implemented protocol
· spying and logging RS232/422/485 communications
· serial port bridging and analyzing
· parsing MODBUS protocol messages
· debugging and testing MODBUS device
· writing and executing java scripts for custom serial data manipulation
Requirements:
· 512MB RAM
· 512MB free HDD space
Limitations:
· 14 days trial
What's New in This Release:
Fixed Bugs:
· Several bug fixes and performance improvements
· Several reported bugs have been fixed. This release also has different stability and performance improvements.
Crash in Packet View :
· Serial Monitor may crash in Packet View in some rare situations. Fixed.
New Features:
· Ability to create virtual serial ports
· Serial Monitor now provides the ability to create virtual serial ports with different routing possibilities.
Updated Features:
· New column in Packet View
· Packet View now has a new column "Time Diff" that displays the time difference between packets.