SUSTerm

SUSTerm (Simple Universal Serial Terminal) is a free software and GNU-GPL licensed Serial terminal developed using QT5, and focused in be minimalist and efficiently fast and easy to use, while contains some more advanced features that can be enabled.

Characteristics:

• Minimalist, robust, simple and fast to use.
• Friendly UI similar to Arduino Serial Monitor.
• Realtime Serial Ports recognized.
• Close a port and connect to other without exit the app.
• Bauds and End-Of-Line selectors.
• Sent commands history, navigate and recover previous sent commands with arrow keys.
• Can show Timestamp of received data (on each \n).
• Can show received data in ASCII, HEX or Both format at same time.
• Open Source and Free software.

Install Instructions:

Windows:

• Download last version.
• Unzip it and place in "C:\Program File (x86)"
• Create a desktop shortcut of "C:\Program File (x86)\SUSTerm\SUSTerm.exe"

Linux:

• Install required tools:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt-get install -y unzip fuse

• Download last version:

$ cd ~
$ wget https://github.com/J-Rios/SUSTerm/releases/download/v1.7.0/Linux_SUSTerm_v170.zip

• Unzip it, give execution permission to install script and run it:

$ unzip Linux_SUSTerm_v170.zip
$ cd Linux_SUSTerm_v170
$ sudo chmod +x ./install
$ sudo ./install

• Remove unnecessary used files:

$ cd ~
$ rm -rf Linux_SUSTerm_v170*

• Add actual user to dialout group to allow open serial ports without been root and reboot system to apply:

$ sudo usermod -aG dialout $USER
$ sudo reboot

• Run SUSTerm:

$ SUSTerm

Uninstall Instructions:

Windows:

• Simply remove directory "C:\Program File (x86)\SUSTerm".

Linux:

• Remove Application related files:

sudo rm -f /usr/bin/SUSTerm
sudo rm -f /usr/share/applications/SUSTerm.desktop
sudo rm -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/SUSTerm.png

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About build in Linux:

To build this QT project in Linux, remeber that you need to install QSerialPort module.

• Install QT:

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
sudo apt-get -y install qtcreator
sudo apt-get -y install qt5-default
sudo apt-get -y install qtbase5-private-dev

• Get QSerialPort module and install it:

cd ~
mkdir qtserialport-build
git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qtserialport.git
cd qtserialport
git checkout v5.11.2
cd ../qtserialport-build
qmake ../qtserialport/qtserialport.pro
make
sudo make install

Notes:

• QT version is 5.11.2.
• The project was written in QtCreator 4.7.1.
• The implementation uses QSerialPort class to manage Serial ports.