Serial Port Bridging Emulator

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Get a Ras Pi and use a real port connection and perform real tests.

Yes.

Linux.

So I need to use serial port hardware to connect Windows COM1 to a tty serial port in Linux, tie that port to a second Linux tty serial port which then connects by hardware to COM2 in Windows.

Yep, sounds pretty good. So do I run Windows in a VM under Linux or run Linux in a VM under Windows?

Rick C.

Any way you like. PTY (Pseudo-TTY) devices have been around in *nix since the 1980s. The world has mostly moved on, but we still have many hostages to rescue.

me boards I make. These boards are tested using a test fixture controlled over an RS-232 port from the PC. So I don't need to lug hardware around wi th me I emulate the test fixture on the same PC I run the test program. I need comm port emulation software that will emulate a bridge between two se rial ports to connect the test program and the test fixture emulator.

". It is free to use, but only in a limited configuration which will do th e job, but just barely. I have also noticed that if my programs are not cl osed properly (or some other cause) this bridge software will hang one of t he ports.

mulator because if I take the program down a lot while testing, I will have to continually restart both the test program and the emulator program. Th ere are a few initialization steps that become tedious after doing them a f ew dozen times.

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Thanks, that seems like a possibility. It's roots in Unix seem to make it a bit harder to understand than I was hoping for but I might give it a try when I get back to this later in the weeks.

Rick C.

some boards I make. These boards are tested using a test fixture controlle d over an RS-232 port from the PC. So I don't need to lug hardware around with me I emulate the test fixture on the same PC I run the test program. I need comm port emulation software that will emulate a bridge between two serial ports to connect the test program and the test fixture emulator.

ts". It is free to use, but only in a limited configuration which will do the job, but just barely. I have also noticed that if my programs are not closed properly (or some other cause) this bridge software will hang one of the ports.

emulator because if I take the program down a lot while testing, I will ha ve to continually restart both the test program and the emulator program. There are a few initialization steps that become tedious after doing them a few dozen times.

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Someone in another group suggested com0com which I now recall from doing si milar work some years ago on a desktop. I downloaded it and it seems to wo rk ok. Rick C.

Do you?

Details you should have mentioned at the start.

You came to the conversation a bit late?

Rick C.