Automated Serial Terminal is a serial port terminal emulation solution with advanced management and scripting capabilities.
It allows the user to open several terminal emulation windows, one per each installed serial device to manually control the device by sending keystrokes. Each terminal emulation window represents a running terminal session. It automatically displays all data sent by the serial device. If the device sends text data, terminal emulation window behaves like a serial console, displaying text data directly. When device sends binary data, it is automatically displayed in hexadecimal format.
Additionally, the user may send the contents of the specified file to the serial device and also configure advanced sending scenario.
Application has built-in support to simplify controlling of MODBUS master and slave devices. The MODBUS Send tool window allows the user to construct and send specific MODBUS requests and responses in ASCII or RTU format.
Both the terminal session and MODBUS Send module provide the detailed scripting API. The user may create a script (written in TypeScript, the superset of JavaScript) that runs within the application and controls all scriptable application components.
The level of control provided to user script is unprecedented: the script can create, manage and stop terminal sessions, send and receive text and formatted data, construct standard or user-defined MODBUS messages and send them to serial devices.