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CLUSTER DESKTOP-TCP-DEVICES · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-08-20

Industrial protocol monitoring tools

This cluster comprises desktop and console applications for monitoring, controlling, and debugging industrial devices over Modbus RTU/TCP and similar network protocols. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only three dated entries before the index start, so it appears to predate the index or its members are largely undated. Traction is led by Studio-0 with 2 stars, while other members have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2012: 1AUG 2020: 1MAR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 2
JUL 2012AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 3 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Studio-03★1 molivehand-codedhobbyDesktop application for debugging and simulating Modbus RTU/TCP/ASCII protocols in industrial automation.
  2. 02dshub0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceA desktop application for monitoring and controlling industrial devices over TCP/UDP networks.
  3. 03qmodmaster0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop application that communicates with ModBus RTU and TCP slave devices and includes a bus monitor for traffic inspection.
  4. 04boinc_curses0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceConsole-based monitor and controller for the BOINC distributed computing client.
  5. 05Modbus Meter Scanner0★unknownliveai-builtTool that scans and reads data from Modbus-connected utility meters for technicians and facility operators.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.