{"id":1443,"date":"2014-02-17T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.rigexpert.com\/uk\/which-program-is-using-a-serial-port\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T13:52:52","slug":"which-program-is-using-a-serial-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/which-program-is-using-a-serial-port\/","title":{"rendered":"\u041a\u0430\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u0430 \u0438\u0441\u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0437\u0443\u0435\u0442 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you connected a hardware (such as a transceiver interface) to your PC, one or more serial ports appeared in the Device Manager, but your software cannot open one of this serial ports.<\/p>\n<p>Things like this just drive me crazy. I always want to know why this happens. It looks like some other program opens a serial port secretly, and it is quite difficult to determine which program to shut down to feel happy. Correction: it was quite difficult. Fortunately, we now have a utility to help us: the <b>Serial Port Checker<\/b>, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rigexpert.com\/files\/SerialPortChecker.exe\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Example: ports COM10, COM11 and COM12 are installed in the system, and the program report status for all these ports:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rigexpert.com\/images\/articles\/serport01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"197\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Now some of these ports are open, restart this program to see the effect:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rigexpert.com\/images\/articles\/serport02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"197\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The program works with 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows, and is able to list both hardware and virtual serial ports (such as Eltima or FTDI ports).<\/p>\n<p>73! de Denis UR8US (ex UU9JDR)<\/p>\n<p>17-Feb-2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you connected a hardware (such as a transceiver interface) to your PC, one or more serial ports appeared in the Device Manager, but your software cannot open one of this serial ports. Things like this just &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.rigexpert.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}