COM port parser. Those who deal with hardware often need to read messages from devices connected to your PC over COM ports. This Windows desktop utility helps to read, log and visualize messages from a COM port. Here below I'll provide the details of how to use the utility. COM port settings This part of UI allows to choose the appropriate settings. First of all select from the list the corresponding COM port your hardware device connected to. Then select appropriate baudrate, number of bits, options for parity and stop bits. Once ready click Open . The default settings are 9600,8,N,1. Data log settings Once the port is correctly opened the utility can log arriving messages to a .txt file. The default name for the log file is generated automatically as hhmmss_ddmmyyyy_comport_log.txt . You may change the name and directory. Click Start to start writing the messages and Stop to finish it. You may also add a timestamp to ev...
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