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Cross platform serial debug assistant

Project description

COMTool
========

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A cross platform serial debug tools written by python
![screenshot](./COMToolData/assets/screenshot_V1.3.png)
> screenshot shows the version 1.0, the latest may not the same totally! But better performance、more easy to use and more elegant

## Features

- [x] cross platform
- [x] port baudrate bytesize parity stopbits settings
- [x] basic send data (ascii and hex)
- [x] basic receive data (ascii and hex)
- [x] send and receive data count
- [x] clear received data area
- [x] auto linefeed on every once receive
- [x] scheduled auto send
- [x] send history and select send again
- [x] serial auto detect
- [x] CR LF / LF select support
- [x] auto save settings
- [x] <kbd>Ctrl+Enter</kbd> 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
- [x] night theme and White theme
- [ ] real time data graphic display

## Install

### Windows

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](https://github.com/Neutree/COMTool/releases)
* unzip, and run comtool.exe
2. Install Python3 first then install from pypi:
* [dowload python3](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
* 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

* 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
```

## Development

1. Install python3.6 and pip
Linux:
```
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip
```

Windows:
[dowload python3](https://www.python.org/downloads/)

2. install pyserial and PyQt5
```
pip install pyserail pyqt5
```

3. clone project
```
git clone https://github.com/Neutree/COMTool.git
```

4. code, resolve bugs or add new reatures


5. pull request




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