Iāve been looking for a good serial monitor for mac for a long time, especially one with a serial plotter as well. There are a few good serial monitors for windows but they donāt have plotters. For the past few years Iāve just been using the builtin serial monitor in vscode, but recently I was missing the plotter again, and now that ai code tools are a thing itās really easy to make simple programs like this that actually look good.
serial monitor
There are multiple things that make this serial plotter special:
- Automatic stream parsing, which means that separate datastreams can be separated (available for monitor and for plotter)
- Multiple plot types, like realtime fft, xy, and bargraphs
- All the plots can be paused, and you can zoom in on stuff to view individual coordinates
- Stores repetitive commands for if your device has multiple inputs for configuration
- These can be sent in order, and you can add your own delays between groups of packets
- Realtime memory viewer, so you can make sure youāre not using all your ram
- A ton of shortcuts, so you never need to actually click
- Sent commands history panel
- Itās really fast (never lags)
- Cool color theme with dark / light
This is basically everything I ever wanted in a serial monitor / plotter and is the culmination of hours of frustration looking for a good one online. Hereās a video demo showing off a bunch of features:
Give it a try! Still havenāt actually tested it with much, so any feedback would be great.