serial-monitor v1.0.3

serial-monitor

What is this?

serial-monitor is just another simple tool for monitoring serial port traffing during your awesome IOT projects! By installing this module as a global node module you may list all the available serial ports and also communicate to some of those using simple commands right from your PATH.

Installation

Just run npm install -g serial-monitor to install serial-monitor so that you can run it from the PATH.

Usage

Listing all available port information

Run serial-monitor list

Output:

[0] PORT: COM3 | MAN: Some Manufacturer | SN: 1231213
[1] PORT: COM6 | MAN: Some Manufacturer | SN: 1234512

Communication to some port

Run serial-monitor monitor [options]

Available options are:

-h, --help         output usage information
-p, --port <port>  Target port
-b, --baud <baud>  Used baud rate

Example:

serial-monitor monitor --port COM6 --baud 9600

Output:

> my message to the serial

[1488725573782] serial message
[1488725571781] serial message
[1488725569782] serial message
[1488725567782] serial message
[1488725567325] rok!

Using the monitor command allows you to listen messages from the serial port and also to write your own message back there. Since now all messages are separated by newline character and all the data is handled as basic strings.

You may exit the monitoring console by pressing 'esc' or 'ctrl + c'.

TODO

• Allow using custom parser
• Allow writing raw bytes in some way
• Allow reading raw buffers