logging serial port transmissions

[Jeff]

Does Windows XP have a feature that logs serial port transmissions to & from
any connected device, not just modems? Do I need a special program to do
this? I have a Radio Shack PRO-95 frequency scanner that can have its 1000
channels loaded from a serial port, but Radio Shack won't give me the specs
for reading and writing data to the scanner. There is a program that will
do this but it doesn't have all the features I want, so I want to write my
own but I need to know the protocols for downloading and uploading channels
to the scanner. I figure if I can log the data transmissions from this
program, I might be able to figure out the protocol so I can write my own
utility. Thanks...

Jeff

 

[DanS]

Does Windows XP have a feature that logs serial port transmissions to
& from any connected device, not just modems? Do I need a special
program to do this? I have a Radio Shack PRO-95 frequency scanner
that can have its 1000 channels loaded from a serial port, but Radio
Shack won't give me the specs for reading and writing data to the
scanner. There is a program that will do this but it doesn't have all
the features I want, so I want to write my own but I need to know the
protocols for downloading and uploading channels to the scanner. I
figure if I can log the data transmissions from this program, I might
be able to figure out the protocol so I can write my own utility.
Thanks...

Jeff

jeff,

here's a pretty good option. http://www.hhdsoftware.com/sermon.html .
there's a demo period, which may be enough time to do what you want to do.

tip- start the logger first, then use whatever other program that uses the
comm port.

DanS

 

[Andrew Jackson]

Does Windows XP have a feature that logs serial port transmissions to

& from any connected device, not just modems? Do I need a special
program to do this? I have a Radio Shack PRO-95 frequency scanner
that can have its 1000 channels loaded from a serial port, but Radio
Shack won't give me the specs for reading and writing data to the
scanner. There is a program that will do this but it doesn't have
all the features I want, so I want to write my own but I need to know
the protocols for downloading and uploading channels to the scanner.
I figure if I can log the data transmissions from this program, I
might be able to figure out the protocol so I can write my own
utility. Thanks...

"portmon" from SysInternals (www.sysinternals.com) lets you capture from
serial ports, parallel ports and log all the resulting data to a file. Logs
record all serial IOCTLs so can be voluminous. Very useful though.

Andrew

 

[Steve Friedl [MVP/Security]]

here's a pretty good option. http://www.hhdsoftware.com/sermon.html .
there's a demo period, which may be enough time to do what you want to do.

tip- start the logger first, then use whatever other program that uses the
comm port.

I have used HHD Software's USB logger, and it's *fantastic*: It was
fantastic enough that I bought the Serial logger sight unseen.

Very good investment...

Steve