5Com

An open-source serial port access application for Linux and Windows written in C++ with Qt5.

Features

• You can view the serial port output
  • In a human-readable plain text format
  • In hex mode
  • In a verbose mode showing specific information for each byte
• You can directly write a file to the serial port
• You can send custom input to the port (with escape codes support)
• You can export the data read from the port in plain text, hex, raw and csv formats
• Support for custom baud rates (as long as the hardware also supports it)
• Support for custom continuous transmission with a fixed packet interval
• Support for custom sequences of data sending, waiting and RTS/DTR modifying
• Option to view the pinout signals and manually change the RTS and DTR pins
• A lot of other small convenience features

Installing from source

Compiling

git clone https://github.com/pgeorgiev98/5Com
mkdir 5Com/build
cd 5Com/build

# Make sure you're using the qt5 version of qmake. On some distributions
# you may have to call `qmake -qt=5 ..` instead for example
qmake ..

# You may use make -jN where N is the number of threads your CPU has.
# This should greatly speed up the compilation
make

# You can now check if the application works as normal
app/5Com

Installing

After compiling you can install it by running

cd app
sudo make install