SerialMonitor++ is meant as a better Serial Monitor than the Arduino IDE provides. It comes with the following extra features:
- display message log in ascii, hex, dec or auto (text when possible and else binary)
- include messages you sent in log besides the received messages
- click on message to show ascii, hex and dec representations of message
- auto search and connect to serial device on start and auto reconnect if connection interrupted
- buttons to store often send messages
- script engine to automate sending messages depending on received messages
- Install python 3: https://www.python.org/downloads/
- Install module pyserial:
>pip3 install pyserial - Run with command:
>python3 SerialMonitor++.py
I am mainly developing this for personal use. If you find bugs, I will fix them if I have time.
Feel free to make a copy and enhance on it in your own repository.
With the buttons below the log you can specify if you want to scroll the log if the messages exceed the page height, add timestamps, display/hide your sent messages, put extra separation between received messages which are more than 1 sec apart, turn on/off wrap and clear the log.
With the format pulldown list you can display the entire message log in ascii, decimal, hex, but you can also display a single message in all representations by clicking on the message in the log.
You can send a message by entering it in the text box at the top of SerialMonitor++ and clicking on the Send button.
If you want to send a previous message, click the up-key in the text box to browse through your history.
You can specify if you want to automatically close your message with a new-line character (NL), a carriage return (CR), both (CR & NL) of with a string end character.
If you want quick access to a send message, long click on one of the buttons to save it. After this a short click on the button resends it.
For multiline messages, or maybe want to send different messages depending on a received message, you can load/run a script using the script button.
Your script will be run, if errors were encountered you can find them in the second tab. You can edit, save or reload the script. If you want a delay between each scriptline you can specify one using pulldown button at the bottom.
In the statusbar below the window, you can specify the connection port, the communication speed, connect/disconnect and specify if you want to autoconnect on start and after a connection interruption.
