Zerial is a RS232 (COM Port Devices) Exchange software

Zerial is a cross-platform GUI utility for interact with COM (RS232) devices.

1. Key Features

Zerial is:

1. Fast like a lighting and a low resources consumption RS232 exchange GUI utility:

• fast start, warm start < 3s
• low memory consumption < 100 Mb
• close to 0 CPU consumption (with a properly working COM devices)

2. Convenient:

• Exchange data with devices in a binary format in Hex mode
• Support multiple device at same time (not really tested)
• Support multiple platforms where Net6 could be installed (Avalonia is a Cross-Platform WPF)
• Support multiple localizations that could be added without re-compilation (see folder ./Assets/Languages)

2. Support

You could find why and how to support us here

3. Install

Installation is available via:

1. Chocolatey (see badge below in 3.1)
2. Snap (see badge below in 3.2)
3. Using build installers (windows) in Repository

3.1 Windows

3.2 Linux

3.2.1 Via Snapcraft

To make application work in SNAP:

sudo snap set system experimental.hotplug=true
sudo systemctl restart snapd.service
sudo snap connect wissance-zerial:serial-port

Also in Linux user must be added to the group dialout (replace $USER with appropriate username):

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

You could sometimes manually see snap slots: snap interface serial-port and add slot snapd:usbserial manually:

sudo snap connect wissance-zerial:wissance-zerial-serial-port snapd:usbserial

4 Run

Application could be run with the selected Environment profile that is defines application default configs i.e. Logging, by default Environment profile is win-native it meand that there should be a file with name appsettings.win-native.json with required appsettings.json in the same directory with executable application file. Snapcraft application is running with snap environment profile. Environment profile is passing via cmd line as follows:

./Wissance.Zerial.exe --environment=win-native

5. Contributors