This simple WiFi serial port monitor would have saved us a lot of ... The ESP8266 then pipes all that out to a simple JavaScript webpage. Connect to the ESP8266’s IP with any device in your ...

But [Jim’s] Python serial terminal (available in this ... You can even use wildcards to monitor every USB connection. The script then automatically chooses a different color for each device.

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete ...