From: Neil <picdude3@narwani.org>
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 12:33:43 -0700
Subject: Re: [EE] RS-485 analyzer/sniffer?
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I've found USB-to-RS485 cables, but the software will be the important=20
thing here.
Definitely not worth writing any software for this short-term project...=20
do you know of anything open-source or low-cost that's better than just=20
a terminal reading streaming data?

Cheers,
-Neil.


On 10/1/2020 3:01 PM, Alan Pearce wrote:
> There are USB-485 dongles out there, so use one of these with normal
> terminal software?
> Or come up with your own program to interpret the data stream if it
> isn't printable characters.
>
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 19:05, Neil <picdude3@narwani.org> wrote:
>> Anyone have a recommendation for a budget RS-485 sniffer/analyzer?
>> With software, under $50 would be nice.  Under $100 is workable.
>> Will be testing some things for someone else for a few weeks, so it's
>> not something I do regularly enough to warrany buying a fancy tester.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Neil.
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