jpnevulator

This is the homepage of jpnevulator. What once started as a Jackpot Navigator emulator (hence the strange name) is now a nice serial sniffer and you can use it to send data on a serial line too. It's sort of like a very simple terminal emulator, like picocom. But jpnevulator uses hexadecimal byte values to display and send along the line. Very handy indeed if you are working a lot with serial protocols.

jpnevulator is released as Free Software under the GPL license. See the file COPYING in the source tarball for more information.

If you have a question, please first read the FAQ. It's kind of a pathetic FAQ file for now, but I bet your question is in it!

News

These are the (max. 10) most recent news items about the project:

09/05/2012 - A new release
A new release of the software, version 2.0.3 with pseudo-terminal support and the ability to monitor modem control bits too. Happy happy joy joy!!

17/04/2012 - A new release?
Rumors have it a new release is on it's way. Finally pseudo-terminal support and the ability to monitor modem control bits too. At the moment I'm awaiting some test results from an Argentinian user, but I've done some tests myself and am fairly confident it all works as a charm. So sneakpeak into the download section to get the latest and greatest, test it out yourself and please let me know if anything bad happens.

22/01/2012 - A new release!
Just to please Debian, I've released a new version of the software with all the Debian build warnings and errors fixed. So nothing exciting really, the software is still considered finished by me. Especially now since I've added a silly FAQ with only one question answered. But it's the only question I've received over the years and I've received it several times. So again, if you feel different about this software being finished or not, please let me know. And otherwise have fun using it. Is anybody still using serial connections anyway? :)

Example of the output

Below is an example of the output one can see when reading from two serial devices at the same time:

$ jpnevulator --ascii --timing-print --tty /dev/ttyS0:SB9600d --tty "/dev/ttyUSB0:Motorola MTM800" --read
2006-05-30 13:23:49.461075: SB9600d
00 00 05 3B 0D 00 00 05                         ...;....
2006-05-30 13:23:49.461113: Motorola MTM800
00 05 3B 0D 00 00 05 3B 0D                      ..;....;.
2006-05-30 13:23:49.473074: SB9600d
3B 0D 00 00 05 3B 0D                            ;....;.
2006-05-30 13:23:49.473105: Motorola MTM800
00 12 05 06 39 00 12 05 06 39 1F 00 22 80 00 0E ....9....9.."...
$

Download

Source

The current release of jpnevulator is version 2.0.3, which was released on May 9th, 2012. Download this compressed tarball(32.2K) and see the README and INSTALL file for more information on how to compile the program.

Older versions can be found here.

Debian GNU/Linux

jpnevulator is an official part of the Debian operating system. You can find information about it at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/jpnevulator.

All the ever released packages can be also be found here.

SourceForge

Of course there is also a SourceForge page for jpnevulator. You can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpnevulator.

Author

jpnevulator is written and maintained by Freddy Spierenburg. Feel free to send questions, bugfixes and the like to freddy@snarl.nl

Page last modified: Wed, 9 May 2012 21:49:23 +0200
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09/05/2012	-	A new release A new release of the software, version 2.0.3 with pseudo-terminal support and the ability to monitor modem control bits too. Happy happy joy joy!!
17/04/2012	-	A new release? Rumors have it a new release is on it's way. Finally pseudo-terminal support and the ability to monitor modem control bits too. At the moment I'm awaiting some test results from an Argentinian user, but I've done some tests myself and am fairly confident it all works as a charm. So sneakpeak into the download section to get the latest and greatest, test it out yourself and please let me know if anything bad happens.
22/01/2012	-	A new release! Just to please Debian, I've released a new version of the software with all the Debian build warnings and errors fixed. So nothing exciting really, the software is still considered finished by me. Especially now since I've added a silly FAQ with only one question answered. But it's the only question I've received over the years and I've received it several times. So again, if you feel different about this software being finished or not, please let me know. And otherwise have fun using it. Is anybody still using serial connections anyway? :)