serialplot

SerialPlot

Small and simple software for plotting data from serial port in realtime.

Features

• Reading data from serial port
• Binary data formats (u)int8, (u)int16, (u)int32, float
• User defined frame format for robust operation
• ASCII input (Comma Separated Values)
• Synchronized multi channel plotting
• Define and send commands to the device in ASCII or binary format
• Take snapshots of the current waveform and save to CSV file

See hackaday.io page for screenshots.

Installation

Check the releases page.

Dependencies

• Qt 6, including SerialPort module
• Qwt 6.3

Building

Obtain Dependencies

• Qt6 development packages
• Qt SerialPort module
• CMake
• git

Under Ubuntu/Debian: apt install qt6-base-dev qt6-serialport-dev qt6-svg-dev git cmake build-essential

Download and Install Qwt [You can skip this step]

Qwt is the library that provides plotting widgets for SerialPlot. You have 3 different options for Qwt.

• Leave it to serialplot build scripts. Qwt will be downloaded and built for you.

• Download Qwt 6 here and build it yourself per these instructions and install. Make sure you use Qt6 to build. When calling cmake for serialplot, BUILD_QWT cmake option to false. If you didn't install qwt after building point QWT_ROOT variable to qwt/ directory that you have just built.

Download and Build SerialPlot

You can use git to download SerialPlot source code.

git clone https://github.com/hyOzd/serialplot
cd serialplot
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j

License

This software is licensed under GPLv3 excluding some third party files. See file COPYING for details.