CLUSTER SERIAL-TERMINAL-DEVICES · 31 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2013-08-21
Serial terminal emulators
This cluster consists of 27 tools for serial communication with hardware and embedded devices, primarily terminal emulators that connect over serial ports, with a few adding network bridging, scripting, or file transfer. The dated entries before the index start show a low, consistent trickle of releases from 2013 to 2026, with slight concentrations in 2016 and early 2020. The traction leaders—serial-scout, protocol-studio, and ttynvt—all show zero stars, so no member stands out on activity.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 6 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled
Operator · 11 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21pvw0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA terminal-based interface that shows the ports currently in use on a computer.
- 22bootterm0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal tool that connects to ephemeral serial ports for hardware and firmware developers.
- 23yesbotics-serial-monitor0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSerial monitor for debugging and interacting with devices using the Yesbotics Simple Serial Protocol.
- 24hterm0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceApplication that provides a serial terminal interface for connecting to hardware devices.
- 25SerialPipe0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceBridge app that forwards data between UDP network endpoints and a USB serial port, enabling remote access for embedded devices.
- 26ckermit-raymii0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceCombined network and serial communication tool supporting terminal sessions, file transfer, and scripted automation of communication tasks across platforms.
- 27moserial0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceSerial terminal application for interacting with serial consoles and embedded devices.
- 28hterm-320★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceSerial terminal application for connecting to and interacting with hardware devices over serial ports.
- 29ttysterm0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal application that connects to and communicates over a serial port for hardware or embedded device access.
- 30cutecom-legacy0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA legacy graphical serial terminal for communicating with serial-port devices.
- 31e4thcom0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal emulator for connecting to embedded hardware devices via serial port for debugging and diagnostics.
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.