Various recommended tools for doing serial terminal work on Windows depending on your requirements
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VS Code Serial Monitor by Microsoft Good for text. Can be used to send binary. Control of DTR and RTS lines manually can be essential. Good at handling port disappearing on you and new ports appearing.
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PuTTY was widely recommended
- TeraTerm is often disliked
- CoolTerm for text, does logging, doesn't require admin rights to install/run, customisable.
- Fast Eddie's 516 Simple Serial for Windows Terminal doesn't have timestamping yet.
- Serial Plot for plotting, can export SVG.
- Thonny to interact with MicroPython
- mpremote in WSL
- Starship.rs for prompt config
- Termite for binary
- Hercules SETUP can do serial as well as TCP, UDP