Serial Port Monitor ActiveX

Serial Port Monitor ActiveX
Control and analyze RS232 activity

Serial Port Monitor ActiveX is a versatile and useful component that will empower your application with the power to fully monitor all serial port activity in the system. 

The component offers you a wide set of features to check the state of the serial port, intercept all signal line events (Ring, RTS, DCD, DTR, RTS, etc.) and control functions (Handflow, Baudrate, Timeouts). Rich set of methods, events and properties will help you track down serial port activity to the smallest detail.

 

With Serial Port Monitor ActiveX you can:

Monitor already opened ports

Start monitoring the port that has already been opened by another application. Serial Port Monitor ActiveX will tell you which application exactly has opened the port. You can stop monitoring the port the same way, without the need to close the port first.

Monitor all serial port activity in your system

Serial Port Monitor ActiveX will let your application sniff all communication between application and serial port. Serial Port Monitor component features a complete set of methods, events and properties to let you intercept all data that has been sent to a port, any changes to port's settings and track everything that happens to the port.

Monitor an unlimited number of serial ports

Monitor only one or all the ports in your system, as Serial Port Monitor ActiveX lets you monitor an unlimited number of serial ports. Extend Serial Port Monitor with you own functionality to add even more features to this component.

 

Features list

√	Unique OnOpenClose event that defines whether the serial port is opened or not
√	Read/write serial port data events are available
√	Sniffing can be started/stopped even if the serial port was opened by other application
√	All serial port configuration (LineControl, FlowControl, Timeouts, Baudrate, etc.) events are supported
√	All signal line (DTR, DSR, RTS, etc.) events are supported
√	Low-level serial port access (IRP functions and IOCTRL requests) is provided
√	No reboot required during installation and implementation
√	Fully compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
√	Multi-threading is supported
√	Examples for Borland/Inprise Delphi, C++ Builder 6.0, Microsoft VC++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic.Net, Visual Studio C# and Visual C.Net included
√	Possibility to detect the application name that opened/closed serial port

 

Compare Serial Monitor AX and Serial Sniffer AX

#	Feature	Serial Monitor AX	Serial Sniffer AX
1	Change control chars	√ (OnIrp)	X
2	On/Off break	√ (OnIrp)	X
3	Read data substitution	X	√
4	Write data substitution	X	√
5	Exact events timestamps	√	X
6	Stop sniffing when port is opened	√	X
7	Start sniffing when port is opened	√	X
8	Detect Ring	√	√
9	Write to port	√	√
10	Change CTS	√	√
11	Open/Close port	√	√
12	Change Baudrate	√	√
13	Change Handflow control	√	√
14	Change Line control	√	√
15	Read from port	√	√
16	OnTimeouts	√	√
17	Change DTR	√	√
18	Change DSR	√	√
19	Change RTS	√	√
20	Trace the application that opened port	√	√

 

Custom Software Development

Whether you’re looking at modifying functionality of our current software solutions or developing a new product from scratch, we can make it happen!

 

What customers say

Florin Vancea, a freelance software designer

I have successfully embedded Serial Port Monitor ActiveX into my own application and now I have a very useful tool for debugging. Finally I can test and monitor protocol errors in my device or any other serial port's problems.

 

Dag Hovden, an owner of Penguin Programs

Serial Port Monitor ActiveX seemed to be the only one suitable solution. Not only will Eltima software enable me to produce user friendly and informative messages, it will save me a lot of time too!

 

Jean-Philippe Pizzichetta, an independent developer

 Serial Port Monitor ActiveX is perfect for me. It does what I need and it does it very well.