ShowAllPorts

Lists all serial ports. Works with buit-in ports as well as USB-to-RS-232 adapters and virtual ports.

ShowAllPorts 2.0.0 on Windows 10

Features

• Cross-platform: Windows, Mac (Intel, ARM M1), GNU/Linux (Intel, ARM), Solaris (Intel, SPARC). 32- and 64-bit architectures.
• GUI
• Shows system port names (e.g. "COM1", "ttyS4") and additionally descriptive port names (e.g. "Physical Port S4", "Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port")
• Shows whether ports are busy (except macOS)
• Function which shows the last port(s) you connected to the machine. Useful if there are a lot of ports already installed. (Bluetooth, etc), especially under Windows.
• NEW Apple M1 support

Requirements

for the current version:

• Windows 7* or higher (x86, x86_64) or
• GNU/Linux (x86, x86_64, ARMv6 soft and hard float, ARMv7, ARMv8_32, ARMv8_64) or
• Solaris (x86, x86_64, SPARC8+_32, SPARC9_64) or
• Mac OS X 10.4 or higher (x86_64, ARM M1) and
• Java 6 JRE or higher on platforms mentioned above

*Windows XP support with ShowAllPorts v1.1.0 or lower

Changelog

1.1.0

• Still Java 5 support
• Still supports Windows® XP or higher (x86, x86_64), GNU/Linux (x86, x86_64, ARM soft & hard float), Solaris(x86, x86_64), Mac OS X(x86, x86_64, PPC, PPC64).
• Copy & paste context menu
• jSSC 2.8.0 library update
• Recognizes /dev/cu.* beneath /dec/tty.* ports on Mac OS X®
• Installer for GNU/Linux and Windows
• App-Bundle for Mac OS X

2.0.0-alpha

• Switch to JSerialComm serial library 1.3.11
• Contains same functions as version 1.1.0
• Displays beneath the system port names (e.g. "COM1"), descriptive port names (e.g. "USB-to-Serial Comm Port")
• Saves preferences: window position/dimensions and settings at shutdown
• Needs now Java 1.6 or higher
• Mac OS X for PowerPC (PPC), Solaris and Windows XP are not supported

2.0.0

• Update to JSerialComm serial library 2.6.0
• Icons in Toolbox
• Solaris support (x86, x86_64, SPARC8_32, SPARC9_64) reimplemented
• Installer for GNU/Linux and Windows, app-bundle for macOS
• Disabled "check port" function (port available or not) for macOS because of serious problems of the JSerialComm library with the Prolific driver
• Apple M1 ARM support (v2.0.0b)

Acknowledgment

Thanks to Alexey Sokolov for the jSSC library, ShowAllPorts is build on up to version 1.1.0 (https://github.com/scream3r/java-simple-serial-connector).

Thanks to Will Hedgecock for the jSerialComm library, ShowAllPorts is build on since version 2.0.0 (https://fazecast.github.io/jSerialComm/).

Thanks to Icons8.de for providing icons for the GUI.

Further information

Blog: http://blog.hani-ibrahim.de/showallportssoft.html