Serial Monitor Lite (DMS) Screenshots

Serial Monitor (DMS) installation package is an executable file signed with HHD Software's digital signature.You can verify the validity of the downloaded file using Windows Explorer.

After downloading the installation file, follow the on-screen instructions to install the product on your computer. Do not forget to restart it if requested.

In order to use Serial Monitor (DMS) trial on your computer you must carefully read and then agree with Device Monitoring Studio End User License Agreement.

Please choose Device Monitoring Studio Components you want to install on your computer.

You can select a location where Serial Monitor (Device Monitoring Studio) will be installed. The product can only be installed on hard drives, installation on removable media and network shares is not supported.

Serial Monitor (DMS) installation program allows you to configure the start menu folder used to hold program shortcuts.

Serial Monitor (DMS) will extract all required files and then restart all Serial Devices installed on the system. This is a correct behavior of Device Monitoring Studio installation procedure.

You are ready to run Serial Monitor (DMS) for the first time now.

On the left side of Device Monitoring Studio main window you will find a list of connected Serial Devices in the Serial Configuration Window. Device Monitoring Studio allows you to view device's properties and manage actions.

If you are going to monitor device that is not currently connected, you can select "Next Connected Device" entry to monitor this device activity after it is connected to the system.

You can start monitoring session for each connected Serial Device, just click on the device and select the way you want to display monitoring data in session configuration window. You'll be able to add up to 10 visualizers for each monitored Serial Device.

This tool window displays the information for the selected serial device. You can scroll the contents of the window to view the whole information if it is larger than window. Use the keyboard or mouse to select the text in the window and select the Edit|Copy command to copy the selected text into the Clipboard.

This visualizer displays all monitored packets, including PnP packets, data transfer packets and serial input/output control code packets. All monitored data can be displayed in one of two schemes - Basic or Complete. In Basic scheme, only general information about a packet is displayed.

In the Complete scheme full packet information, including the binary data attached to the packet is displayed.

This visualizer window consists of two parts. The top part displays monitored packets in a table. For each packet the following information is displayed:

• Ordinal
• Time
• Function
• Direction
• Status
• Data
• Data (Characters)

The bottom part is build from the following visualizers: Request View and MODBUS View. Click on any packet in the top part to see it decoded by each visualizer in the bottom part. Click on the tab to switch to the visualizer.

This visualizer contains two panes. The top pane displays that was read from the device, and the bottom pane displays the data written to the device.

This visualizer works as the text console, showing all the received data as ASCII characters.

This visualizer displays the state of the serial/modem control lines. The following lines states are displayed:

• RTS Request to Send line indicator
• CTS Clear to Send line indicator
• DSR Data Send Ready line indicator
• DCD Data Carrier Detect line indicator
• DTR Data Terminal Ready line indicator
• RI Ring line indicator

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