multiserialviewer 24.12.2

Shows multiple serial text streams in a single window with individual highlighting options.

multiserialviewer

Shows multiple serial text streams in a single window with individual highlighting options

Motivation for using this tool

Imagine you have several embedded devices / MCUs all printing out debug information over a UART. You don't want to use a terminal program (e.g. HTerm) for every COM port manually. You want to easily open all COM ports at once and clear all received data with a single click. Would be nice, if important text messages could be highlighted with different colors, so you don't have to read everything your devices are telling you.

Installation

You can install this tool using the package installer for Python (pip). See multiserialviewer.

pip install multiserialviewer

Usage

After installation using pip, you can start it by running

multiserialviewer

in a console (or by directly clicking '\Scripts\multiserialviewer.exe' in your python install directory).

Setting up your serial/COM port connections

Click in the top left corner on "Create SerialViewer" and enter your connection details. After you created all SerialViewers you need, start receiving your text data by clicking on "Start".

If one of your serial ports can not be opened, you will see an error message in the corresponding SerialView window. In this case all other connections/SerialViewer will be closed again.

Specifying text patterns for highlighting

If you want to highlight specific text, you can define text patterns using regular expression syntax. If you just want to highlight certain words, just enter them as normal text under "Text Highlighter Settings".

More information

Configuration folder

When closing this tool, your settings (connections, window sizes/positions and highlighter) are stored in ini/text files. You will find them in your users config folder. On windows this could be e.g. C:\Users\youruser\AppData\Local\MultiSerialViewer.