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Subject: Re: [EE] RS-485 analyzer/sniffer?
Thread-Topic: [EE] RS-485 analyzer/sniffer?
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Hi, its better than just a terminal reading streaming data, but only a=20
little.  Realterm:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/realterm/>
Sometimes it's just the thing: print incoming in hex (+ascii, your=20
choice), and send ascii/hex/dump a file/log a file.  Quirky, useful,=20
freeeeeeee.

J


Neil wrote:
> I've found USB-to-RS485 cables, but the software will be the important
> thing here.
> Definitely not worth writing any software for this short-term project...
> do you know of anything open-source or low-cost that's better than just
> a terminal reading streaming data?
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> Cheers,
> -Neil.
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> 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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