Best serial comms program for PC?

Guest · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:02 am

What would people recommend using for serial comms with a PIC?
Currently using hyperterminal, but it keeps freezing up on me.

Anyone got any other recommendations?

GDetienne · Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 47 Location: Brussel - Belgium

Look at "Terminal". It's free, easy to use and with some possibilities.
Here is the links : http://bray.valenje.cx (sometime the server is out, in this case let me know with your email address).

Have a nice day.

tom_hanks · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 20

Hello,
Try Br(at)y++ Terminal.
You can download it from:
hxxp://www.hwgroup.cz/supp_rem_serial_en.html

best regards.

Ken Johnson · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 197 Location: Lewisburg, WV

How about siow.exe from ccs ? ? ?

Ken

Douglas Kennedy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 755 Location: Florida

Hyperterm is quirky so take care in assuming the PIC is at fault if a char doesn't show up. CCS siow is great.

Imanjl · Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 42

Terminal is great ,,but not in high speed transfering cause its buffer overflows so quick .and its so hard to read the display and sometimes whole the program hangs during recieve the data that is sent .but its so fine with lower baud rate 9600 and also small amount of packets .

I suggest using Herculus Setup ,if u dont want to lose any data in higher baud rates.

http://hercules-setup.hw-group-s-r-o.qarchive.org/

ckielstra · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 3680 Location: The Netherlands

The link provided to the Br@y++ Terminal above is an older version. The newest version I could find is v1.9b 2004-12-26, note how only the date has changed but there are some serious improvements.
http://www.mikrocontroller.net/attachment/24594/term20041226.zip

jma_1 · Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 147 Location: Wisconsin

Greetings,

Try TeraTerm
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

TeraTerm has a nice macro feature and supports telnet, VT100, serial, SSL. It even has a pocketPC version available.

Cheers,
JMA

kender · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 768 Location: Silicon Valley

tom_hanks · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 20

in help file it is mention that

"The SIOW.EXE program included in the program directory "

but in my PICC folder there is no program directory..

can u put some focus..

or any other way to have this s/w

grasspuddle · Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 66

SIOW is my favorite.

Try redownloading or reinstalling your CCS. It should be there.