ssterm is a simple console-based serial port terminal featuring painless serial port configuration, and no dependencies outside of a standard Python 2 or 3 installation,
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Variety of useful formatting options:
- Output modes.
- raw.
- hexadecimal.
- hexadecimal/ASCII split.
- input modes.
- raw.
- hexadecimal.
- Output modes.
- Transmit newline remapping (e.g. system newline -> CRLF).
- Receive newline remapping (e.g. CRLF -> system newline).
- Character color coding.
- Local character echo.
Website: github.com/vsergeev/ssterm
Support:
Developer: Ivan (Vanya) A. Sergeev
License: MIT License
ssterm is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Terminal-Based Serial Terminals | |
|---|---|
| tio | Straightforward TTY I/O with profiles and clean command syntax |
| minicom | Menu-driven comms tool with dialing, scripting, and capture |
| ComChan | Fast Rust monitor with plotting, logging, and TUI workflow |
| picocom | Minimal modem tester for low-overhead device console access |
| Commy | Small cross-platform utility for UART, TTY, and COM devices |
| ssterm | Python-based console app with easy setup and output formatting |
| opencu | Portable cu-style console for quick Linux device connections |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our comprehensive directory of recommended free and open source software. Our carefully curated collection spans every major software category.This directory is part of our ongoing series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. It features hundreds of detailed reviews, along with open source alternatives to proprietary solutions from major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. You’ll also find interesting projects to try, hardware coverage, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Discovered a useful open source Linux program that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know by completing this form. |