(solved) Need serial port redirector to use with WiFly

Wireless & IoT
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Solved. See my post 3 or 4 down.

Somewhere there is free software similar to FabulaTech’s “Serial Port Redirector”. I stumbled onto it while researching the [RN-XV WiFly Module, which I just purchased. The software (as described by the article) makes a connection (telnet?) to a remote address:port (the Wifly module), and bridges that to a virtual COM port on the local system. Presto! Wireless serial cable to any (inter)network-connected computer. The article linked to a free port redirector meeting that description. Unfortunately, now I can’t find the article or the exact software it linked. The closest thing I can find after many hours of Googling is FabulaTech’s “Serial Port Redirector”, but they want plenty of coin for anything but a trial version.

Did I imagine it? Is there such (Windows) software in the freebie domain? Where?](http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10822)

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Lots of Wifly discussion going on. Nobody has an answer to this?

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Tera Term

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zoidicus:
Somewhere there is free software similar to FabulaTech’s “Serial Port Redirector”. Where?

So you need the data as a COM port rather than a dumb terminal Telnet connection? That telnet could log to a disk file.

Otherwise, there is a telnet to COM bridge, freeware; I used it long ago. It’s called SerProxy. If you can’t find it on the 'net, PM me and I’ll email the zip file.

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Solved. I didn’t find the original article & link, but I did find a solution. com0com and com2tcp, produced by the same team of developers, work together to achieve the desired goal. One of my local (virtual) COM ports is now permanently connected to a telnet session on a remote network device.