Mar 23, 2020 On the right side of the macOS Dock, there is usually a shortcut to the Application folder that opens a list of all installed programs on your Mac. Click on it and in the pop-up window open the Utilities folder, and in the next list find and open the program Terminal.app. Click it to macOS Terminal. Apple's Terminal app on the Mac is a great tool for diving into the command line, but it isn't the only option available. The Mac Observer rounded up several alternatives to Terminal you can use.
Serial 2.0.2
Serial is a modern terminal emulator designed to make working with servers, network equipment, and embedded hardware easier for engineers and system administrators.
For system administrators, Serial supports the all-important break sequence required when working with routers and switches. Serial also includes a full-featured terminal emulator, allowing you to work with the screen-based menus found in network equipment and Unix programs including the text editors vi and emacs.
Makers and engineers will appreciate Serial's built-in support for embedded devices including the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, and thousands of others. Serial includes several useful features for working with these devices including the ability to reset an Arduino, and the ability to connect to a BeagleBone over USB directly or through it's on-board serial header.
Finally, Serial supports several of the most common USB to serial adapters without requiring drivers, often saving you the hassle of finding and installing additional software.
What's New:
- Improved coexistence with DriverKit drivers
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
![Terminal Terminal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Appleterminal2.png/1200px-Appleterminal2.png)
- Initial Release!
- Added SSH Support
- Added Telnet Support
- Added Hex View
- Added Bluetooth Smart Support
- Dozens of Bug Fixes and Improvements
Screenshots:
- Title: Serial 2.0.2
- Developer: Decisive Tactics, Inc.
- Compatibility: OS X 10.11 or later, 64-bit processor
- Language: English
- Includes: K'ed by HCiSO
- Size: 11.32 MB
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You'll probably need to connect to a serial port now and then. I have two programs I use for connecting to Serial devices, putty and X-CTU
While not the most powerful serial port software, putty does a good job. It also does telnet and ssh so that's handy as well
You can download putty from http://www.putty.org/ or http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
On the off chance the site is down, here is a mirror
The installation defaults are pretty good
Putty is pretty simple to run, just run the Putty tool
For serial ports first click Serial in the radio buttons. Then type in the Serial name in Serial line (e.g. COM5) and finally, set the Speed to be whatever speed you like
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Then click Open to open the port
I also sort of like X-CTU which has more low-level tools like the ability to toggle and monitor the flow control lines, view hex codes, see both incoming and outgoing bytes, generate and send packets, etc.
Once installed, you can run just the Serial Console from the Tools menu
Start off by Configuringthe serial connection
Unlike Putty, you'll get a GUI interface to select the serial port, byte encoding, baud rate, and whether you want flow control
Once configured click the Open Port button
If you type into the console the sent data is shown in blue. Incoming data is shown in red.
On the left you see the ASCII values, on the right, HEX bytes. In this case I sent the text abcde to a USB serial cable with nothing connected to the end. I then connect RX and TX pins together so that sent data would come back as received data and typed in ECHO
What is really easy is setting and unsetting the flow control lines, handy if you, for example, want to test that DTR is resetting an Arduino compatible chip, or that the CTS line goes high/low based on the pin settings of a breakout board
This guide was first published on May 05, 2016. It was lastupdated on May 05, 2016.
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