Nera N.
Electronic Team Serial Port Monitor
Electronics is my hobby since I was a kid, several years ago started to learn Arduino and eventually came to a point where Arduino needed to communicate with PC via RS232. I am programming small apps with Visual Studio in C#, so getting data from Arduino and sending commands back to it involves bunch of errors and in the beginning of making some device communications most often is not working. And this is where Electronic Team Serial Port Monitor comes superhandy - it shows what data is sent and what data is received, thus it becomes very easy to understand what is done wrong or why data is not displayed correctly in the new windows app interface. I used to check all this with logic analyzer, but Serial Port Monitor is so much better and more convenient, that I am recommending it without doubt, just try and you will surely like it (it comes with 14 days demo). Most useful features for me were - table view and dump view windows, those two are rally convenient when it comes to data analysis, also SPM can save and then open gathered data, which is most convenient thing and gives some time to think about what is seen on display, then turn off the app and open again, with same data and continue checking without need to do all the communication procedure again. And in the table view there is a possibility to leave notes, which, again, is very convenient, just to mark that something on PC is done and here is the outcome in the RS232 port, corresponding to your program. Electronic Team - thank you for very useful tool for all newbies and professionals in electronics.