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Shafiul
Shafiul

Reputation: 2890

Emulate serial ports in absence of serial ports

I'm very new to serial port/windows programming... and need to communicate with a microcontroller device via serial ports. Since I've some working knowledge of Qt, I've decided to write the GUI application using Qt, QSerialDevice etc.

I've a laptop with no serial device. Now I don't understand how I'll be experimenting on serial ports even if I do not have them! (Don't laugh at my ignorance) - Please provide me some insight how I can test the behaviors/test my program.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 319

Answers (1)

Brad
Brad

Reputation: 163742

Franson makes a whole set of serial port tools, including loopback ports.

If you just need a loopback, there is a free driver available: http://com0com.sourceforge.net/

If you want to interface with an actual device, you'll need to pick up a USB-to-serial converter. They're only $2 or so.

Upvotes: 1

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