Monitoring Serial Port

Serial Port Monitor highlights include:

Monitoring serial port activity

Once you launch the app, it connects to a COM port open by an app, and you can monitor COM port immediately. The data is collected real-time and if a problem arises, you can attend to it right away.

Monitoring several ports at a time

This COM port monitor is capable of tracking several serial ports simultaneously. Within one session you can monitor the data exchange between a few apps, devices and ports. The data will be saved in a single log on a first-in-first-out basis, this makes further analysis easier.

Viewing data in different modes

Captured data can be viewed in table, line, dump or terminal mode. Each of them has its own way to represent collected data. You can specify what data you would like to monitor by setting filters, and you won’t waste your time going through the data you are not interested in.

Emulating data sent to devices

In order to check specific reactions of monitored devices you can emulate data sent to devices, i.e. sent binary, octal, decimal, etc. data on behalf of an application. To do it, switch to terminal mode of the application.

Virtual COM Port Driver in our day

Today, you can see a fairly wide range of tools that allow creating a number of virtual serial ports in nearly any system. But if you need the solution to be both efficient and easy to use, you should try Virtual COM Port Driver by Eltima Software. The program stands out among all the other similar apps for its set of advanced port virtualization features and friendly GUI. Plus, the utility fully supports Windows 10, which is also of no small importance.

Some of the powerful Virtual Serial Port Driver capabilities:

• Creating any number of virtual COM port pairs where ports talk to each other via a virtual null-modem cable;
• Emulation of a virtual serial line connection break;
• Renewal of all virtual connections at the system boot (even before the user logs in);
• Displaying full details about the current virtual serial port state, incoming and outgoing data, etc.;
• Support for any name you give to a newly created virtual COM interface (you can use even those names already used by real COM interfaces);
• Support for WDM, WMI, Power Management, PnP, etc.
• Digitally signed utility and all of its internal drivers.

How to create a virtual serial connection

Here are a few simple steps you should follow to add virtual COM port on your computer with the dedicated Virtual COM Port Windows 10 utility:

1. First, you download Virtual Serial Port Driver and install it on your computer.
2. Then, start the app and choose the “Manage ports” option in its main window.
3. After that, you need to use the drop-down list to choose a virtual interface and add ports manually.
4. Finally, hit “Add”.

Let's have a look at the most common usage cases of Virtual Serial Port Driver app.

Create virtual RS232 port and use it for points of sale

Virtual Serial Port Driver works flawlessly with COM port software and creates steady connection without the need of physical cables.

The software can be used for development, troubleshooting, and testing of your software efficiently emulating physical COM ports. The created ports can be added and removed on the fly.

Using Virtual Serial Port Driver in software development

Even if your software product will be working with hardware serial ports on clients' computers, it is not necessary for you to have the ports on all the machines you are performing tests on. Plus the equipment you are testing with, may be located at a remote side. With the help of Virtual Serial Port Driver you can create virtual serial port pairs with a null-modem cable connection. You get the possibility to simulate the data flow as if the hardware port sends it to your software program and vice versa. Such flexibility helps to perform tests even with the hardware you don't have at hand, thus providing you with the necessary resources to develop

a high-quality product.