[ale] eavesdropping on serial port

[Atlanta Geek]

OK. thanks guys.  Chris's suggestion is the best fit for my situation.


On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Christopher Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> One idea is to do it with hardware.  This I've done.
>
> You need a few ports to do this
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/c4g2ku
>
> Hook the device to port 1 and then port 2 to the windows PC.  The PCI board
> is to be installed in Linux.
>
> Since this is a coding project you know how to code.  Write a program
> that runs
> a select() loop across both ports in raw mode.  Simply shuffle bits back
> and forth.
> while shuffling, write the data to a file.
>
>
> *Atlanta Geek wrote:
>> gents,
>> I'm playing with a 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer that I got from
>> dunehaven.com. It plugs into an Arduino board. Together they are still
>> < 1/2 the price of a wi-spy.
>>
>> Unfortunately the software is windows only. Which would have been fine
>> by me since I just needed the hardware for a coding project.
>> Unfortunately little details have been found about the protocol.
>>
>>   Does anyone know how I can eavesdrop on the serial port of a windows
>> app so I can reverse engineer the protocol.
>> I've asked the designer for info.  Either the protocol or the source
>> for the Arduino board but he hasnt responded much yet.
>> Any suggestions.
>>
>>
>
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