Serial Com Tester

Serial Com Tester is a convenient utility to debug or test the serial port or
to test your microcontroller project.


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This is free software, it is experimental and available under the GPL License version 3.
Despite this software is intend to be usefull, there is no warranty, use this software at your own risk.

The sourcecode


Compiling and installing on Debian Linux and derivatives   (Ubuntu, Mint, Raspberry Pi OS, etc.)

Simply execute the following commands in a terminal:


  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install build-essential g++ make git qtbase5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev
  git clone https://gitlab.com/Teuniz/serial-com-tester.git
  cd serial-com-tester
  qmake
  make -j8
  ./sct

Compiling and installing on Fedora

Simply execute the following commands in a terminal:


  sudo dnf update
  sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
  sudo dnf install g++ qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-devel
  git clone https://gitlab.com/Teuniz/serial-com-tester.git
  cd serial-com-tester
  qmake-qt5
  make -j8
  ./sct

Compiling and installing on openSUSE

Simply execute the following commands in a terminal:


  sudo zypper refresh
  sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_basis devel_C_C++ devel_qt5
  git clone https://gitlab.com/Teuniz/serial-com-tester.git
  cd serial-com-tester
  qmake-qt5
  make -j8
  ./sct


Note: In case you can not open your serial port, remember that you need to be a member of the group "dialout".
On Linux Mint / Ubuntu, open a console and enter: sudo usermod -a -G dialout <username>
On openSuse, start Yast and go to Security and Users -> User and Group Management -> Users -> click on the user -> Details -> check "dialout" in the "Additional Groups" list.

Connector pinlayout


Serial Port Programming Library


Look here for a Serial port library for Linux and Windows.