lanselambor/COMTool

Cross platform Serial Assistant （ 跨平台 串口 调试 助手 串口助手 串口调试助手 linux windows mac Raspberry Pi ）

COMTool

A cross platform serial debug tools written by python

Windows(version 1.0,not the latest) Linux(Elementry OS) Raspberry Pi3

screenshot shows the version 1.0, the latest may not the same totally! But better performance、more easy to use and more elegant

Features

• cross platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Raspberry Pi ... ...)
• port baudrate bytesize parity stopbits settings
• basic send data (ascii and hex)
• basic receive data (ascii and hex)
• send and receive data count
• clear received data area
• auto linefeed on every once receive
• scheduled auto send
• send history and select send again
• serial auto detect
• CR LF / LF select support
• auto save settings
• Ctrl+Enter to send
• escape character support, like \x \r \n etc.
• multiple character encode support
• multiple auto send (order and disorder)
• unix style terminal color support
• night theme and White theme
• real time data graphic display
• rts & dtr control by hand

Install

Windows

Test pass on Win10

there's three ways:

1. download excutable bin file, easiest way for one never used python

• Download the latest bin file at the release page
• unzip, and run comtool.exe

2. Install Python3 first then install from pypi:

• dowload python3
• Install by pip,

pip install comtool
comtool

3. Or you can download source code, then install from source code

• download sourcecode
• install

python setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/COMTool-*.*.*-py3-none-any.whl
comtool

Linux

Test on Ubuntu 16 and Elementry OS 4

• download and install

sudo apt install python3
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install comtool
sudo comtool

or

sudo apt install python3
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py 
sudo python3 get-pip.py
sudo pip3 install comtool
sudo comtool

be sure python bin path already in the $PATH env.

Or you can download source code, then install from source code

• download sourcecode

python setup.py bdist_wheel
sudo pip3 install dist/COMTool-*.*.*-py3-none-any.whl

macOS

brew install python3 python3-pip
pip install COMTool

Rasberry Pi

Test pass on Raspberry Pi 3 just open terminal, type the command below:

sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/Neutree/COMTool.git
cd COMTool
python setup.py bdist_wheel
sudo pip3 install dist/COMTool-*.*.*-py3-none-any.whl
comtool

then enjoy

Development

1. Install python3.6 and pip3

Linux:

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

Windows: dowload python3

2. install pyserial and PyQt5

sudo pip install pyserail pyqt5 bs4

On Raspberry:

sudo pip install --upgrade pyserial bs4
sudo apt install python3-pyqt5

3. clone project

git clone https://github.com/Neutree/COMTool.git

4. code, resolve bugs or add new reatures

Recommended PyCharm IDE

5. pull request

Issue and improvement

create issue here