Serial Port Sniffer

[Deepak.G]

Hi everyone,
i am in need of ideas and want a bit of advise...i want to make a serial port sniffer which will be able to read the data goin in and out of the serial port between two other programs.....

im not sure how i will be able to access a port when its already open....:confused:

all advises are heartily welcome
Thank you....

[Salem]

http://www.lvr.com/serport.htm

[Stefano Mtangoo]

http://pyserial.wiki.sourceforge.net/pySerial

[Deepak.G]

ok let me put it this way.....

import os
import sys
import time

sys.path.append ( os.path.join( os.getcwd(),
                                'common',
                                'uspp')
                )

from uspp import *

DEFAULT_COM_PORT   = "COM1"
DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE  = 57600
DEFAULT_TIME_OUT   = 10000
class MySerialPort():    
     def __init__(self,
                 port      = DEFAULT_COM_PORT,
                 timeout   = DEFAULT_TIME_OUT,
                 baud      = DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE):
        #initialize and configure serial port class
        self.tty = SerialPort(port, timeout, baud)          
        self.port = port
        self.baud = baud
        self.timeout = timeout
    
    def getCurrentSerialPort(self):
        return self.port
    
    def getCurrentBaudRate(self):
        return self.baud

    def getCurrentTimeout(self):
        return self.timeout   
    
    def write(self,str):
        self.tty.write(str)
        
    def read(self):
        time.sleep(3)
        return self.tty.read(self.tty.inWaiting())

    def flush(self):
        self.tty.flush()
        
    def __del__(self):
        self.tty.__del__()
 
if __name__ == '__main__' :
    #initialise and open port
    SerialPort1 = MySerialPort(DEFAULT_COM_PORT,0,DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE)
    while 1:
        SerialPort1.write(str(raw_input('enter a letter')))
        st=SerialPort1.read()
        print st
        if st=='q':
            break

i have this code as a serial port analyzer....where my this code becomes one end and the target the other and we can send command through my script and see the response....but what i want is a program where two other programs would be communicating through a serial port and my program can monitor it...so basically i want to read a serial port which is already open by some other port...is this possible in python....

[Stefano Mtangoo]

Have made alook in network programming??

[Deepak.G]

self.__handle=CreateFile (dev,                                  win32con.GENERIC_READ|win32con.GENERIC_WRITE,
                                  0, # exclusive access
                                  None, # no security
                                  win32con.OPEN_EXISTING,
                                  win32con.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
                                  None)

this was the method that creates or opens the serial port....i noticed an attribute which was given value here 0...(3rd attribute...)
the values i can give there are.

win32con.FILE_SHARE_READ
win32con.FILE_SHARE_WRITE
win32con.FILE_SHARE_DELETE

i tried the combination but it does not seem to work.....

[HDowns]

GENERIC_READ|win32con.GENERIC_WRITE will not help. Serial Port Sniffers install a special driver that help to intercept all data exchange. Therefore I would suggest to try Serial Port Monitor . There's a demo period, which may be enough time to do what you want to do.
-
HD

[epacomios]

Hello,

has there been any update on this one?
I am also doing the same application that monitors an existing and used port. Say below:

[ COMPUTER/DESKTOP SIDE ] ============ [ EXTERNAL HARDWARE ]
MyDesktopApplication <-> COM1 <== SERIAL CABLE ==> COM2 <> MyDevice

The setup is basically as stated above. What the desired application, programatically, is to monitor or sniff to the activities between the ports.

Thanks,
Eljun

[DavidTurner]

Hello,

Upd then.
You can easyaly monitor and analyze(sniff) all serial port activity even if it already used with COM Port Monitor - http://www.com-port-monitoring.com/portmonitor.html

[RogerLiver]

Hello all!
Windows OS does not have a built-in way to monitor the activity of a serial port device or check the amount of data sent and received.
In fact, you can use free versions of monitoring programs, but in practice I know that it is very problematic to set it up qualitatively. Because of this, I switched to commercial software, I advise https://www.eltima.com/products/serial-port-monitor/. Read signals and commands easier and without problems.

[vegaseat]

Maybe pySerial will do:
https://pyserial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/