Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Serial Port Mate
A cross-platform serial port debugging tool and easy to use.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Serial Port Mate launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Over the last few years, I've needed an easy way to quickly serialise and deserialise various network protocols safely and efficiently. Most of the libraries that existed at the time were either quite heavy, had less than stellar performance, or were an abstraction level above what I was looking for. I decided to put together my own class to do the job, starting with an easy, low-overhead way to move bytes in and out of arbitrary buffers. Along the way, it picked up useful bits and pieces, such as buffer structures and allocators that made the byte shuffling faster, often being able to do it…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Fischer, and I'm super stoked to share a project that I've been working on for a little over a year: Manta, an open-source, cross-platform, vendor-independent tool for debugging and rapid prototyping with FPGAs. This was originally my Master's Thesis at MIT, where I developed it for our course on FPGA design. We needed an alternative to vendor debugging tools, which only supported x86 machines running Windows or Linux. We were able to patch in macOS support with VMs, but as more students came bringing ARM-based devices, we needed a new tool. So I developed this. It's called Manta,…
2024 · fischermoseley.github.io · its alternatives →
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Port Checker▲87simple tool to check open ports on your computer
2014 · portchecker.co · its alternatives →
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Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers - draios/sysdig
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪 - ramonvermeulen/whosthere
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv) - Xfennec/progress
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Monitor RS232/422/485 COM ports in your network
2019 · com-port-monitoring.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on throughout my university studies. It’s called BiTE (https://github.com/WINSDK/bite) and it's a tool primarily focused on being an executable viewer with reverse engineering capabilities. BiTE supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux, along with their associated executable formats. It’s also capable of parsing and displaying debug information using DWARF/PDB formats, which I hope will be useful even for just comparing codegen. I’ve put a lot of effort into this and it's the first time I'm releasing something…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a small CLI tool that answers "what's using my port?" without the lsof/ss/netstat incantation dance.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tracking history of USB events on GNU/Linux. Contribute to snovvcrash/usbrip development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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To try it out, simply build the project yourself from source, or use attached bootable ISO image of the system (in Releases on Github) and run it in QEMU. https://blog.vxn.dev/rou2exos-rusted-edition
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Expose local http, tcp or websocket connections to the public internet - amalshaji/portr
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, To truly understand how operating systems and network protocols work, I decided to combine two classic learning tools: the xv6 teaching OS and a from-scratch TCP/IP stack. I'm excited to share the result: my own from-scratch TCP/IP networking stack running directly inside the xv6-riscv (https://github.com/pandax381/xv6-riscv-net) kernel. The project uses a modern virtio-net driver, allowing it to run seamlessly in QEMU and communicate with the host machine. Key features: - From-Scratch Stack: The core is powered by microps…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Portworx▲60Container-Aware Infrastructure For Enterprise Applications
2015 · portworx.com · its alternatives →
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Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle. Contribute to medusalix/xow development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I wrote this tool for inspecting linux signals across proceses
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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dish is a lightweight, 0 dependency monitoring tool in the form of a small binary executable. Upon execution, it checks the provided sockets (which can be provided in a JSON file or served by a remote JSON API endpoint). The results of the check are then reported to the configured channels. It started as a learning project and ended up proving quite handy. Me and my friend have been using it to monitor our services for the last 3 years. We have refactored the codebase to be a bit more presentable recently and thought we'd share on here! The currently supported channels include: - Telegram -…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DOCKCASE▲121Smart USB-C hub with visual operating system control screen
2021 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Effortlessly share COM port to Ethernet
2019 · serial-over-ethernet.com · its alternatives →
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Port Checker is a simple tool to check for open ports and test port forwarding setup on your router. Verify and diagnose connection errors on your computer.
2014 · portchecker.co · its alternatives →
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