Serial Studio examples

Example projects for Serial Studio. Each folder has source code, a project file (*.ssproj), a README with setup instructions, and screenshots where applicable.

You can also browse and download examples directly from Serial Studio via the Examples button in the toolbar.

Examples

Example	Description	Difficulty	Pro
ANSI Color Test	ANSI color and VT-100 terminal emulation test suite	Beginner
API Test	Python API client with interactive REPL and test suite	Intermediate	Yes
BLE Battery	BLE Battery Service level monitor	Beginner
Camera Telemetry	Live camera video plus image analytics over UDP	Intermediate	Yes
CAN Bus Example	ECU simulator with DBC file import (needs the widget-extension example installed)	Intermediate	Yes
csv2wav	Convert Audio I/O recordings to WAV files	Intermediate	Yes
Dual Drone Telemetry	Multi-source two-drone simulator with synthetic camera feeds	Advanced	Yes
EM Wave Simulator	Propagating electromagnetic plane wave visualizer	Advanced	Yes
EtherNet-IP Example	Allen-Bradley Logix tag polling over EtherNet/IP (no simulator; real hardware or emulator)	Advanced	Yes
Graphical Ping	Live network latency plot driven by the system ping command	Beginner
HexadecimalADC	Binary ADC data with CRC-16 and FFT analysis	Intermediate
Hydrogen	Hydrogen 1s orbital Monte Carlo 3D visualization	Advanced	Yes
IEC 104 Example	IEC 60870-5-104 substation simulator with interrogation-driven point discovery	Intermediate	Yes
IMU Simulator	Batched multi-frame IMU data parsing demo	Intermediate
ISS Tracker	Real-time International Space Station position tracker	Beginner
LorenzAttractor	Lorenz attractor chaotic system simulation	Advanced	Yes
LTE modem	LTE modem signal quality via serial, MQTT, or UDP	Intermediate
MCP Client	Model Context Protocol client for AI integration	Advanced
Modbus PLC Simulator	Hydraulic test stand Modbus TCP simulator	Intermediate	Yes
MPU6050	MPU6050 accelerometer and gyroscope visualization	Beginner
MQTT Subscriber Example	Live Helsinki transit vehicle tracking over public MQTT	Intermediate	Yes
NI DAQmx	NI DAQ device data acquisition bridge	Intermediate
OBD-II	OBD-II vehicle telemetry via ELM327 adapter	Intermediate
OPC UA PLC Simulator	Bottling-line OPC UA server (asyncua) with typed tags, arrays, and bad-status handling	Intermediate	Yes
Project Tutorial	Companion of the Project File tutorial: delimiters, the Built-In parser, a data grid and an accelerometer	Beginner
Protobuf Example	Protocol Buffers schema import with binary auto-detect parsing	Intermediate
PulseSensor	Heart rate PPG sensor with signal filtering	Beginner
RC Plane Simulator	RC plane flight telemetry simulator	Intermediate
S7 PLC Example	Siemens S7comm PLC simulator over ISO-on-TCP with absolute addressing	Intermediate	Yes
Sparkplug Example	Sparkplug edge node with birth certificates, aliases, and rebirth handling	Intermediate	Yes
System Monitor	Live CPU, memory, disk, and network dashboard	Intermediate	Yes
Testo T549i	BLE pressure probe with Control Loop handshake and Lua unit transforms	Intermediate
TinyGPS	GPS location tracker with map widget	Beginner
UDP Function Generator	Multi-waveform signal generator over UDP	Beginner
Vibration Test Rig	Motor RPM sweep driving a Campbell-mode waterfall and two scripted Canvas widgets	Intermediate	Yes
widget-extension	Level Bar widget extension template (info.json + QML) for a custom dataset widget	Intermediate

Suggested learning order

Beginner

1. Project Tutorial: delimiters, the Built-In parser, a Data Grid and an Accelerometer group.
2. UDP Function Generator: Quick Plot over a UDP source.
3. PulseSensor: Quick Plot from an Arduino and CSV export.
4. MPU6050: Accelerometer and Gyroscope groups.
5. TinyGPS: a GPS Map group.
6. Graphical Ping: a Control Loop that launches a helper script.
7. BLE Battery: a Bluetooth Low Energy source and a gauge.
8. ISS Tracker: a Control Loop that polls a web API, with a map and a web view.
9. ANSI Color Test: Console rendering of ANSI and VT-100 sequences.

Intermediate

1. HexadecimalADC: binary frames, CRC-16 and timed polling actions.
2. IMU Simulator: multi-frame parsing of batched packets.
3. RC Plane Simulator: several widget types from one UDP stream.
4. Protobuf Example: schema import with a generated Lua parser.
5. OBD-II: request and response polling with computed datasets.
6. Testo T549i: a BLE Control Loop handshake and Lua transforms.
7. LTE modem: the same data over a virtual serial port, MQTT or UDP.
8. NI DAQmx: a Python bridge for DAQ hardware.
9. widget-extension: a custom widget package.
10. API Test: remote control through the API server.
11. csv2wav: checking the pipeline through the Audio driver.
12. System Monitor: the Process I/O driver.
13. Camera Telemetry: JPEG image streaming.
14. Vibration Test Rig: a Waterfall widget and Canvas widgets.
15. MQTT Subscriber Example: an MQTT source on a public feed.
16. Modbus PLC Simulator: a Modbus TCP source.
17. CAN Bus Example: CAN Bus with DBC import.
18. OPC UA PLC Simulator: an OPC UA client source.
19. S7 PLC Example: an S7comm source.
20. IEC 104 Example: an IEC 60870-5-104 source.
21. Sparkplug Example: Sparkplug B over MQTT.

Advanced

1. LorenzAttractor: a Control Loop that generates all data, with Plot 3D.
2. Hydrogen: a Plot 3D point cloud over UDP.
3. EM Wave Simulator: Plot 3D and MultiPlot for a wave packet.
4. Dual Drone Telemetry: two sources at once, with images, maps and output controls.
5. EtherNet-IP Example: Logix tag polling against real hardware or an emulator.
6. MCP Client: AI assistant control through the Model Context Protocol.

Getting started

1. Open the example's folder and read the README for hardware and software requirements.
2. Upload the firmware (if applicable) or run the companion script.
3. Open Serial Studio, load the .ssproj project file (if provided), and connect.

Several examples (e.g. RC Plane Simulator, Modbus PLC Simulator, CAN Bus Example) auto-launch their companion Python script from the project's Control Loop as soon as the connection opens, so step 2 is a no-op for those — make sure Python 3 and any extra libraries are installed first. If a required package (e.g. pymodbus for Modbus PLC Simulator, opencv-python for Camera Telemetry) is missing, the auto-launched script can fail silently in the background with no dashboard data and no obvious error in Serial Studio itself; check the example's README for its exact dependencies if nothing shows up after connecting.

Requirements

• Serial Studio. Download from serial-studio.com.
• Arduino IDE for examples that use Arduino sketches.
• Python 3 for examples that use Python scripts.
• Check each example's README for extra libraries or hardware.