# SerialPlot

Small and simple software for plotting data from serial port.

## Features

* Reading data from serial port

* Binary data formats (u)int8, (u)int16, (u)int32, float

* ASCII input (Comma Separated Values)

* Synchronized multi channel plotting

## Dependencies

- Qt 5, including SerialPort module

- Qwt 6.1

## Building

### Obtain Dependencies

- Qt5 development packages

- Qt5 SerialPort module

- CMake

- Mercurial

Under Ubuntu/Debian:

```sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev cmake mercurial```

### Download and Install Qwt

Follow these instructions to build and install:

http://qwt.sourceforge.net/qwtinstall.html#qwtinstall-unix

Make sure that you have built the Qwt with Qt 5 not Qt 4.

### Download and Build SerialPlot

You can use Mercurial to download SerialPlot source code. Or you can

download it from here:

https://bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot/downloads

    hg clone https://hyOzd@bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot

    cd serialplot

    mkdir build && cd build

    cmake ..

    make

You can also build with QtCreator IDE using `serialplot.pro` file.

## Known Issues

- Port error 13 happens when closing. This is a Qt issue. It's known

  to not happen with Qt 5.4.1 . Not fatal.

## License