Serial Port Monitor

I think this is a great software for developers in the freelance industry. Anything that saves time is a must. Serial Port Monitor helps me manage multiple SP communications, and is very user-friendly software.

I’m Dag Hoven, and I am one of the owners of Penguin Programs. I graduated with a Master’s in Engineering Physics M. Sc and then transitioned into programming over thirty years ago.

I was in need of a reliable and convenient SPM due to my career writing numerous programs that required serial ports with external instrumentation. Modern programmers now use USBs in tandem with COM-port drivers. My issue was with programs (like synching programs for smart-phones, as an example) which latch onto COM-ports and cause the communication to fail.

I wanted to be able to communicate to the users that they can’t open COM-ports because they’ve already been opened by another program; then being able to advise them to close their programs or change the COM-port that they’ve assigned before making another attempt with Active X.

After Google searching through copious amounts of “not quite what I was looking for’s”, I ultimately chose to download Serial Port Monitor because it could be installed onto Active X- which was EXACTLY what I wanted. I’m really glad to have found this company, as they seemed to be the only providers of such a powerful and feature-filled SPM. Their easy to set-up software and intuitive UI made it a pleasure to work with, and I look forward to using it again in the future.

I love tracking data flow with Serial Port Monitor. I work in engineering, and precision and efficiency is kind of a big deal. I get both with SPM software

I was quite familiar with the standard communication signal known as the RS232 Standard, and how this signal only deals with the data communications from computer to another computer, but what I was mainly curious about was how to find out where the COM1/DB9 serial port was being utilized with a PLC application.

This was important to me, being in the PLC industry, and wanting to find a way of tracking the data transferred from computers to other industrial instrumentation equipment. Thankfully, after a bit of searching, I found the exact tool to help me do that in the form of the Serial Port Monitor.

Mainly used for RS232, 422, and 485, I find SPM software is ideal for automation engineers, specialized in several industries, looking to improve their work-flow and efficiency.

I’m so happy I found this software, it’s very easy to set-up, and the User-interface is sleek and unobtrusive to deal with. Serial Port Monitoring software gives me the freedom to keep track of multiple serial port communications- and even record them for later use.

If you’re an engineer, a software developer, hardware developer- so on, I can’t recommend the Serial Port Monitor enough.

Thanks for making such a helpful tool!

I often work with digital serial ports, and such products are my go-to. Serial Port Monitor has a cool “sniffer” function that locates open serial ports, as well as letting you record data.