Serial Port Monitor

As its name clearly suggests, Serial Port Monitor has been designed to keep an eye on serial ports and store some entries about its activity.

The application installs easily and the main screen may seem too simple; but the developer docked a menu to the right hand part of the interface.

The menu enables the user to start or stop the application as well as access an activity graph that can be set to show the information in decimal or hex system.

Moreover, the menu offers the possibility to enable some filters. This allows the user to set the application to ignore empty lines or duplicated messages as well as details containing specific data.

On the other hand, the tool can be easily configured to collect specific information defined by the user.

From the main application window the tool allows selecting the hardware flow control. The options are RTS (request to send), CTS (clear to send), DTR (data terminal ready) and DSR (Data Set Ready).

The configuration panel for Serial Port Monitor is not complicated and allows the user to select the port to be monitored, the Baud rate and the data size. There are options for defining the parity and the stop bits as well as the line timeout.

Additional settings include the possibility to define the location for storing the recorded logs. To make things easier, the tool can be instructed to eliminate the entries that are older than 30 days.

Serial Port Monitor is not a complicated tool but it addresses a specific segment of users. It is versatile and provides a flexible set of options.