Com port connection viewer tool?

dtokez · 4 Aug 2015 at 14:11

Hi all, I do a lot of work with serial devices, and I'm so sick and tired of going through device manager to check what port I want to connect too!

I have searched but not found anything so far, I'm after a tool that simply displays what com ports I have connected on my machine without having to go through device manager - anyone aware of anything?

cheers

dtokez · 4 Aug 2015 at 21:47

not looking good so far eh mushtafa

dtokez · 5 Aug 2015 at 19:06

Sorry mate but I have no idea what a powershell is?

dtokez · 12 Aug 2015 at 11:32

cheers halfmad. Just grabbed the software and it does display a list of my COM ports so essentially that's what I'm after albeit a little overkill

done some extensive googling and come across this http://todbot.com/blog/2012/03/02/listcomports-windows-command-line-tool-for-usb-to-serial/

whilst it works it kept shutting the cmd window before I could read the contents so I made a batch file to pause it and it works a treat now

dtokez · 12 Aug 2015 at 13:11

dtokez · 12 Aug 2015 at 14:05

yeah I'm glad I've got something going now mate, thanks for the tips!

I'm a electronic engineer and a tinkerer so I do a lot of prototyping with arduino stuff and canbus etc, this will save me a good few clicks each time i need to check