If ports COM & LPT are not shown in the Device Manager of your Windows 10 system, you can install Virtual COM Port Driver and solve this problem once and for all. This software is designed to create an unlimited number of virtual COM port pairs communicating with each other over a virtual null-modem connection.
For example, the utility lets two applications share data over virtual COM ports in such a manner that everything written by one program will immediately appear in the other one (connected to the other end of the virtual serial port pair).
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For those of you who are looking for a simple way to create not only virtual COM port pairs but also their bundles with various custom parameters, the app developers offer the Virtual Serial Port Driver PRO version. This edition is tailored for professional use by serial port software and hardware developers and testers.
Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro makes it possible to create complex port bundles where multiple virtual and real serial ports can exchange the incoming data with all the other ports added to the bundle at a time.
Anytime your application needs to connect to a serial port, the switcher option will link it to a COM port being currently free. For this, you just create a bundle of virtual COM ports that will emulate a single real one. By communicating with one of the virtual ports, your app will, in fact, talk every time to the same real interface.
Serial Port is a serial communication interface that has been the backbone of industrial data transfer and even embedded computers (MCUs, SBC, SoC and Others) still provide support for it in one way or the other way. Although you might not be seeing the traditional RS-232 serial port again, the serial port still get used along with USB to Serial converters using things like FTDI chip.
Virtual serial ports are great when access to serial ports is not available, and a software application needs a connection to a serial device but cannot connect to it due to a physical lack of serial ports. Here, the computer will be reconfigured to send serial port data over LAN (local area network) or some other interface and then send data back to itself. This is basically is a virtual serial port. So how do you create one? Use a virtual serial port software, they are several of them and the Virtual COM Port Driver from Eltima is one I have tried out that seems interesting.
The Virtual COM Port Driver allows anyone to create virtual serial ports and connect them via a virtual null modern cable. The serial port emulator by Etima seems to emulate a serial port behavior quite well if not entirely. The software provides flexible port creation, management, and removal of ports. With it, applications can exchange data on the virtual ports and this is a great way of testing embedded system communication without necessary having the device physically available .
All these features combined make the Virtual COM Port Driver a compelling software for serial ports manipulation but what about the price tag? I must say the price tag is high, especially for someone looking for some virtual ports to play around but still, it provides functionality beyond what you will ever get from free software.
The Virtual COM port driver is great for industries and bushiness applications and especially if you work with a lot of legacy tools, it might as well be better off than free tools but if you do basic serial port stuff it might just be overkill.
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Right now this is a two computer process, where one computer is running IMPERX's framegrabber and software. IMPERX software will create a virtual com port that when serial data is sent to the virtual port, it gets passed over the cameralink cable to the camera. So, I disconnect the cameralink cable after passing camera parameters via a third party software, then connect the cable to a NI-1427 cameralink card, to collect video.
However, If i remember correctly, it is also possible to use netburner virtual port for free (which is eltima) it is only stuck at 9600 baud. It is not ment to be used on anything beside Netburner equipment, but it works
Edit: I have tried with other kinds of software but none really works. Nor can you passthrough any usb port from your motherboard to any vm. There is a solution and that is to get a pci express usb expansion as you are able to passthrough the entire device.
I use USB Redirector from a Pi 4 (wired - POE powered) with an Aeotec Z-stick and ConBee II. I pass both devices to my Ubuntu VM in Hyper-v. I have had no problems after working out the configuration.
Is there a way to use a linked serial port pair with an Arduino Uno? I am trying to retrieve frequency data from the application SDRUno, which works with an SDR receiver called an SDRPlay RSP1A. The data is exchanged using the Computer Aided Transceiver (CAT) protocol, developed for use with amateur radio transceivers. The SDRUno User Manual specifies that in order to exchange info, the SDRUno application must be assigned to one serial port in a linked pair, and the requesting device is assigned to the other linked port. However, I can't find a way to get the Arduino to work with a linked serial port.
You have to create the linked pair with third party software. I am able to assign the Arduino to one of the linked serial ports using the IDE tools, but when I try to upload my sketch, I get an error message saying that the port is already open or in use by another device. It appears that the Arduino will only work with a serial port that is assigned to it when the USB cable is attached. I have tried deleting the automatically assigned port and then assigning the Arduino to a linked serial port, but I get the same error message.
An example for an application called Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD) is given on the following page. Third party tools , such as Eltima Software's Virtual Serial Port Driver 9.0 can create the type of linked serial ports described. My issue is that once created, and the Arduino assigned to one of the ports in the IDE tools section, the sketch cannot be loaded, an error message saying the port is already open.
That sounds like something that is commonly done with an Arduino Mega. A serial device is connected to Serial and another serial device is connected to Serial1. When a byte arrives on Serial it is written to Serial1 and vice versa. Something like
Yes, that might work. I thought about a Mega as an alternate, but both serial lines need to go to the PC via USB. I saw that Arduino sells a USB to serial adapter that was made to use with the Arduino variants that have no USB connection on the board. Could that be used on the Mega?
USB-TTL cables (or just modules) are widely available and can be used to connect the Rx1 and Tx1 pins to a PC. I find the cables more convenient to use. Best to get one that has 6 connections at the TTL end - mine have GND, CTS, 5v, Tx, Rx and RTS.
Well, using the MEGA did not change anything. The application on the PC is assigned to its own COM port. With the mega, I have two COM ports assigned, one for serial and one for serial1. Neither of them will connect to the application com port. This is what the "linked"ports are for. There are several applications that can create these linked ports, the one I am using is called "Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro" by Eltima Software. It creates a pair of virtual ports that are interconnected, so that two apps can communicate.
The problem is that the Arduino boards will not recognize the linked ports. For instance, I can create a linked pair of virtual serial ports, say COM 10 & COM 11, which show up in the Device Manager as "Eltima Virtual Serial Port (COM10->COM11)" and "Eltima Virtual Serial Port (COM11->COM10)". If I then attach the USB cable to the Arduino board, it will assign a regular COM port to the Arduino, say COM3. I then go into the Device Manager and change the Arduino COM port to COM 10, but the device manager then comes back showing a separate COM10 port, labeled as USB Serial Port COM10, i.e. a different port than the Eltima port previously created, which still shows in the Device Manager.
You wrote " It creates a pair of virtual ports that are interconnected, so that two apps can communicate.". These are called virtual ports because they are not REAL ports. Your Arduino serial connection can only exist with a real physical electrical connection.
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The problem is that the Arduino boards will not recognize the linked ports. For instance, I can create a linked pair of virtual serial ports, say COM 10 & COM 11, which show up in the Device Manager as "Eltima Virtual Serial Port (COM10->COM11)" and "Eltima Virtual Serial Port (COM11->COM10)". If I then attach the USB cable to the Arduino board, it will assign a regular COM port to the Arduino, say COM3. I then go into the Device Manager and change the Arduino COM port to COM 10, but the device manager then comes back showing a separate COM10 port, labeled as USB Serial Port COM10, i.e. a different port than the Eltima port previously created, which still shows in the Device Manager.
I found an image of the SDRPlay RSP1A and it looks like it has a USB port to connect to the Windows PC running the SDRUno software. You mention serial port so I assume that when you plug the SDRPlay RSP1A into your PC via the USB cable, it appears as a standard COM port.
If so, then in theory, you would need a virtual serial port (that SDRUno software connects to) that is connected to a real USB serial port that the SDRPlay RSP1A connects to, and also a real serial port that the Arduino UNO connects to. A software Y-lead from a virtual COM port to 2 real COM Ports.
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