Serial Port Activity and Serial Port Sniffer Activex Control Software for Windows

Advanced Serial Port Monitor
$65 - AGG Software

Today we are all living in a completely new era. Nowadays, utilizing digital technologies is as natural as breathing and eating. This is why so many businesses turn towards digital products and solutions. The number of devices that can be connected to a home or office PC grows exponentially. The PC becomes a control center of various pieces of hardware: from MP3-players to industrial machinery.

One of the industry-standard device communications protocols is the RS232/RS485/RS422 serial interface, or COM port, for short. Creating devices that communicate with PCs via a serial port is very cost-effective, not to mention the amazing hardware compatibility. Most computers are equipped with at least one free serial port. However, developing hardware and software solutions that are built around COM port communications protocols is a challenging task without proper tools.

But, now there is: Advanced Serial Port Monitor by AGGsoftware, the unique serial port monitoring and data handling solution that allows developers to focus on their projects instead of battling the hardware.
Advanced Serial Port Monitor can operate in manual, automatic and spy modes providing developers with unique opportunity to monitor all data received from a device connected to COM port as well as send data directly to a serial port either manually or automatically on given time intervals. The application supports full duplex mode, which means you can use it anytime without having to close or restart programs already communicating with a device via a serial port.

Advanced Serial Port Monitor supports all possible baud rates, data bits number, stop bits number, parity and flow control types. Besides flexible configuration, the software supports plug-ins used to emulate various devices and expand software functionality. The application comes with a comprehensive help system and intuitive interface making it easy to start using it right after installation. So, why waste time? Download it now!

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COM Port Toolkit
$29 - Michael Golikov

COM Port Toolkit is an integrated serial communications testing toolkit. It sends user's data to and receives one from a device and records all transfers to a log. You can test equipments serial communications protocol by hand: feed it input, check the output.

You can write or use a script written by other developers to automate some specific tasks: CRC calculations, special transfer rules, outgoing data modifications and etc. COM Port Toolkit's scripting language is an enhanced, C-like programming language, including if, else, for, do and while constructs and the usage of user defined functions. It combines the power and flexibility of conventional programming languages with functions specifically developed for use with the COM Port Toolkit software. Some scripts you can find in an application's examples directory.

COM Port Toolkit can capture serial communications between the device and the software by using special serial port driver. So COM Port Toolkit acts as a software protocol analyzer in this mode.

COM Port Toolkit works on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000/XP operating systems.

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Eltima Serial Splitter CE
$49.95 - ELTIMA Software GmbH

Serial Splitter CE is software for splitting real serial ports into virtual ones. It is really useful if you need several applications to work with the same serial port on your mobile device (like several applications to read from one GPS device). As a fact, one program works with one virtual port, the other one with another port and so on, but in fact all of them work with the same split real port. Serial Splitter CE can create up to 20 virtual ports for splitting real ports - COM0-COM9, VSP0-VSP9. Moreover, all of the ports are equal! You can specify the status for every created port - read-only or read-and-write. In case of read-only ports you won't be able to write anything to the port, only data retrieval is possible. Read-only mode can be useful, for example, just to read the data and keep a log the real port activity. With Serial Splitter CE you can connect one application to the other, split real ports into virtual ones. As a result, applications can exchange data. Such solutions can be useful for GPS simulation systems.

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Serial Splitter Mobile
$49.95 - ELTIMA Software GmbH

Serial Splitter Mobile by Eltima for Windows Mobile 2003/2005 operating systems is a new generation of professional system utilities for mobile devices. This is the software for splitting real serial ports into virtual ones. It can be useful if you need several applications to work with the same serial port on your mobile device simultaneously. Finally, one program works with one virtual port, the other one with another port and so on, but in fact all of them work with the same split real port. Serial Splitter Mobile can create up to 20 virtual ports for real ports splitting - COM0-COM9, VSP0-VSP9. Moreover, all of the ports are equal! You can specify the access mode for every created port - read-only or read-and-write. In case of read-only ports you won't be able to write anything to the port, only data retrieval is possible. Read-only mode can be useful, for example, just to read the data and record the real port activity. With Serial Splitter Mobile you can connect one application to the other, split real ports into virtual ones. As a result, applications can exchange data. Such solutions can be useful for GPS simulation systems. The essential feature is disabling existing serial ports (for instance, COM1 may be used by other device and isn't free therefore) to spear a slot for virtual one and use it for your needs.

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Bill Serial Port Monitor
$95 - Bill Production

To monitor (bi-directional) Serial communication RS-232 between two devices without physical cable, use Bill Serial Monitor. This software allows you to view, log, test and analyse the activity of the serial RS-232 port. To monitor the serial protocol of two different serial devices. DSR, CTS, DTR and RTS can also be controlled
No programming or additional hardware required !

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232Analyzer
$99.9 - CommFront Technologies

Software RS232/RS485/RS422/TTL Serial Port Monitor / Terminal / Protocol Analyzer / Debugger - control, monitor, debug, log, spy, sniff, capture, view, analyze, and test serial ports activity.

It allows communication logging (c/w timestamps in millisecond) between serial devices using serial ports (with optional monitor/control cables and rs232/rs485/rs422/TTL converters), no more expensive hardware protocol analyzer is required. Besides monitoring capability, controlling (debugger, terminal emulator) a serial device becomes a simple task, such as PLC, Modbus, SCADA, etc.

Besides all data formats (Hex,Dec,Oct,Bin,AscII), line state control, flow control, macros, CRC Checksum Calculator are included, which make controlling sophisticated and time sensitive device a simple task.

232Analyzer allows you to control serial devices right from your PC. It supports data input and monitoring in Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal, Binary and ASCII formats. It also allows you to change / monitor RS-232's line states: RTS, DTR, CTS, DSR, DCD, and RI. All data and signal flows are logged in the Communication Window, which can be saved as .txt, .doc or .rtf files for further analysis.

232Analyzer comes with many advanced features, such as:
1) Being able to Monitor Communications between serial devices with timestamps in milliseconds;
2) Programmable Buttons: Send up to 32 commands with a button click;
3) Auto-Response: Automatically respond to incoming data / signals;
4) Macros: Up to 64 steps of Logic and Timer processes for handling sophisticated serial devices;
5) Checksum Calculator: Advanced checksum bytes calculator.

232Analyzer is useful for controlling, testing, developing, and debugging serial devices, control software and firmware. It is widely used in industrial and commercial control and automation systems. Our clients include: NASA, Boeing, Siemens, Honeywell, Schneider Electric, AT&T, Alcatel, Cisco, Panasonic, Hewlett Packard, etc.

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