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What Do You Use For Serial Communications?

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  • R Roger Wright

    Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

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    I use whatever I can download in a hurry. I try to stay away from serial in the SCADA world, its almost unavoidable but manufacturers are starting to realize that its going the way of the Dodo. For legacy devices I usually get a gateway, usually if I'm going Modbus RTU to TCP I work with Moxa equipment. I usually do my best to pick equipment that doesn't have serial, or if I do, I buy the proper gateways and translators to get them into a modern network.

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    • R Roger Wright

      Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

      Will Rogers never met me.

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      I use TeraTerm[^] and have had pretty good success. Another very good one is Putty.

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      • R Roger Wright

        Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

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        My favorite: TERMINAL By Bray[^]

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        • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

          I use TeraTerm[^] and have had pretty good success. Another very good one is Putty.

          VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!

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          Lost User
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          In lieu of HyperTerminal, I use HyperTerminal[^] - because its full of Microsoft goodness. ;P

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          • R Roger Wright

            Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

            Will Rogers never met me.

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            my RFID reader communicates over RS232 and it is fairly new.

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            • R Ron Beyer

              I use whatever I can download in a hurry. I try to stay away from serial in the SCADA world, its almost unavoidable but manufacturers are starting to realize that its going the way of the Dodo. For legacy devices I usually get a gateway, usually if I'm going Modbus RTU to TCP I work with Moxa equipment. I usually do my best to pick equipment that doesn't have serial, or if I do, I buy the proper gateways and translators to get them into a modern network.

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              Unfortunately, the electric power industry is far behind the rest of the world. My boss still doesn't quite trust solid state relays, and would prefer that we protect our lines and substations with the electromechanical sort. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL, INC) pioneered solid state relays, and produces some of the best, but they still think RS232 is pretty neat. We just got a notice that our satellite clock modules have a glitch, and the only way to update the firmware is via a serial port. X|

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                In lieu of HyperTerminal, I use HyperTerminal[^] - because its full of Microsoft goodness. ;P

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                Mike Mullikin wrote:

                because its full of Microsoft goodness.

                You're not one of the candidates being considered to replace Balmer are you? :)

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                • D DaveAuld

                  I use ClearTerminal: http://www.clearconnex.com/content/clearterminal[^] Why, because it was free and works... :)

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                  Thanks for the link, Dave! I'll give it a try as soon as I can get a USB to Serial converter; our new SCADA computer left out that important feature, too. :sigh:

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                    Mike Mullikin wrote:

                    because its full of Microsoft goodness.

                    You're not one of the candidates being considered to replace Balmer are you? :)

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                    Mike Hankey wrote:

                    You're not one of the candidates being considered to replace Balmer are you?

                    I use a Mac... I'm over qualified. :cool: :laugh:

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                    • R Roger Wright

                      Unfortunately, the electric power industry is far behind the rest of the world. My boss still doesn't quite trust solid state relays, and would prefer that we protect our lines and substations with the electromechanical sort. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL, INC) pioneered solid state relays, and produces some of the best, but they still think RS232 is pretty neat. We just got a notice that our satellite clock modules have a glitch, and the only way to update the firmware is via a serial port. X|

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                      I work in the electric/solar power industry as well (new contract, I usually do Oil/Gas), some of our engineers (not me) are well versed with Schweitzer's. Fortunately when a new project comes along they let me dictate parts. We have some older equipment still working off of serial but as it gets upgraded we are using gateways.

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                      • R Ron Beyer

                        I work in the electric/solar power industry as well (new contract, I usually do Oil/Gas), some of our engineers (not me) are well versed with Schweitzer's. Fortunately when a new project comes along they let me dictate parts. We have some older equipment still working off of serial but as it gets upgraded we are using gateways.

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                        We have SEL2032 Communications Processors in each of our substations, linked via Ethernet on a private radio network, but they're not connected to the clocks that require updating. Unfortunately, I'm not well versed in the SEL stuff, either, and have no idea how to connect them to the 2032s. If I did, I could probably do the update from my desk, instead of taking a laptop far into the desert with a serial cable...

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                          My favorite: TERMINAL By Bray[^]

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                          That's certainly worth a look; Thanks! :-D

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                          • R Roger Wright

                            Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

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                            Roger Wright wrote:

                            What's your favorite,

                            RealTerm[^]

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                            and why?

                            It's free and pretty comprehensive

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                            • R Roger Wright

                              Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

                              Will Rogers never met me.

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                              I have used LookRS 232[^] with good results. I like it because it allows command scripting. Otherwise I generally write my own applications for using custom binary data formats coming from our products. Most of our product use SoC as the brains on our products the best way for me to test the systems are through the SCI (Serial Communication Interface) RS 232 is the easiest, quickest and most reliable for collecting data from our products during testing (Read least expensive). When the products are ready for consumer market we will have ported them to Bluetooth or USB interfaces with simplified data formats. But some of our customers still want RS232 or RS485.

                              It was broke, so I fixed it.

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                                Mike Hankey wrote:

                                You're not one of the candidates being considered to replace Balmer are you?

                                I use a Mac... I'm over qualified. :cool: :laugh:

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                                Good comeback and true enough!

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                                • R Roger Wright

                                  Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

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                                  QVT/Term, been using it since the mid-90s. It does serial and Telnet, so it's what I use for working with my OpenVMS servers :cool: even when HyperTerminal is available. I'm no longer sure whether or not I pirated my copy. I do know that I didn't pay for it, but I thought I had downloaded it from QPC.com (which no longer knows what I'm talking about). http://download.cnet.com/QVT-Net/3000-2160_4-10003575.html[^] I may still have a copy of Procomm laying around...

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                                  • R Roger Wright

                                    Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

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                                    Teraterm for general purpose hyperterm replacement use, but realterm for playing down with the fiddly bits of micro's. Realterm provides lots of control, including sending pre-canned strings, multi-format decodes, etc. Both free, but appeals to slightly different uses, one pretty high level, and the other for playing in the serial weeds. And unfortunately, I suspect serial will be around for some time, although some Mfr's are seeing the light of the next generation. Ken

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                                    • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                                      I use TeraTerm[^] and have had pretty good success. Another very good one is Putty.

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                                      I saw Putty on an Arduino site couple of years ago and downloaded it. Still using it for GPS and Arduino. Very easy to use.

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                                        I saw Putty on an Arduino site couple of years ago and downloaded it. Still using it for GPS and Arduino. Very easy to use.

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                                        I had Putty but when I reloaded my machine I didn't put it back on, using Tera Term now it's simple and I don't use it a lot. Best all around Arduino site I've found is AVRFreak, been a member for a couple of years.

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                                        • R Roger Wright

                                          Just curious, since Windows no longer ships with HyperTerminal, what those who deal with this archaic technology use for terminal emulation. Anyone involved in SCADA or factory automation probably has need for a terminal emulator over RS232 or RS485 on a regular basis, so there are likely to be several products still on the market. What's your favorite, and why?

                                          Will Rogers never met me.

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                                          I wrote my own called NTerm using WPF, I use it for Cisco appliances.

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