When open you’ll find some controls don’t work – like changing the baud rate for example. Serial is even simpler – open or close the port. The former will overwrite what’s in the window, the latter will append to what’s there – so you can store a load of routines and build up something new the easy way. For retrieval – you have two options, load and append. Find a suitable directory to store your stuff – the dialog is bog-standard. The file system is easy enough – you might want to store what’s in your left window – your latest all-singing routine or just a bunch of nonsense – that’s up to you hence file – save. I have deliberately kept this as clean and simple looking as possible as you really just want to get on with coding and not worry about some pesky program – but there are some basics if you want to make good use of this.

You just need the exe file for this… PetesSerialTerminal.EXE if it is still around anywhere and note that Windows XP is not supported. I’m providing this freely just because I’ve no reason not to but without support. it’ll still be there after you blow up your serial port and have to reboot the computer.ĭisclaimer: if any of the above or the use of the terminal breaks your computer, it’s not my fault. Whatever you type in the left window is non-volatile, i.e. Oh and you can save the left panel into a file if you want. Also you can define up to 10 pages of info (Notepads) and send that – in addition you have up to 9 presets – handy for initialisation sequences. You can send all of that out the serial line – or just a selected area or indeed whatever is in your clipboard. In the simplest case you set up the serial port you want, ensure it’s set to the right baud rate, select “serial – open” and you’re all set (I’m assuming you have an FTDI or similar on your USB lead, talking to the serial on the ESP8266 device. The most important bits are the two big windows – on the left is the area you type in – multi line – and on the right is the output from the serial line – i.e.

So above right you should see the editor. For reasons beyond me the original article on my serial terminal, originally put together when I was messing with LUA, has disappeared from the blog entirely – and so here’s a quickly updated version but this is no longer developed as I use YAT which is GREAT.

What is a serial terminal program