I've been working on this project for the last few years.
A simple serial terminal tested primarily with Arduino.
https://github.com/bonner72/SerialTerminal
If anyone would like to test it and commit issues it would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Please outline the advantages of your serial terminal over the IDE Serial monitor and existing terminal programs such as PuTTY and Coolterm
@superbwoodpecker791
Had a quick look at the video and I would like to have:
- logfile to capture data (saw something there, need an ON/OFF button)
- ANSI support => screen layout. See GitHub - RobTillaart/ANSI: Arduino library with basic ANSI display codes for simple terminal apps
You could also check the examples of
- GitHub - RobTillaart/LineFormatter: Arduino library to enhance the layout of tabular data on serial output,
Which should give already some nice results (tabular data)
I would say there aren't many advantages, but i've found PuTTY and Coolterm to be complicated for simple serial communication. So for basic communication with Arduino, (from my testing) i've found SerialTerminal to be pretty much plug and play.
Thanks for the reply.
I will add that in the future.
That looks useful. Will take some work but it should be possible.
I was thinking of adding commands of some sort e.g.(key presses sending custom commands).
How can we install it?
When you download it there is an executable under windows-amd64. Its made with processing so you can't make a packaged installer.
That's something else to add to the readme, Install instructions.
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Doesn't work on Windows7 64 bit
Are you running linux?
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Do I need to do something different in that case?
No as I already said Window7 64 bit
It currently only runs on windows.
Will test on linux for next release.
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Something else to document on the Readme.
Do you want me to raise Github issue about running on linux?
It runs on Windows10 in Windows7 compatibility mode.
will test in a vm soon.
Thanks.
Sure thing.
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@jim-p Tested in a Windows 7 vm, it does not work.
Wish I'd found this years ago. 
TNX Mr. Rob.
You can't get much more plug and play than the IDE Serial monitor and it has the advantage that you don't need to remember to disconnect it before uploading a sketch
It would be better if it were in a separate window but there are workarounds for that
Probably not a big concern as windows 7 is not supported by microsoft anymore.