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Troi Serial Plug-in

Troi Automatisering

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Product Type: Extensions

Price: US$ 999 developer license

Last updated: 8/5/2025

Language: English

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Read and write to all devices with a serial interface

This plug-in enables FileMaker Pro to read and write to all devices with a serial port interface.

This plug-in lets a wide array of devices, from weighing scales to telephone switchboards, work directly with FileMaker Pro databases. With Troi Serial you can connect to multiple serial ports and read and write data to them all directly from FileMaker! The plug-in works with all types of serial ports including those added through an extension card or USB to Serial adapter. It uses FileMaker native script triggering, to get incoming data into the database. It can wait for a specific character string before triggering and has a function to temporarily suspend the incoming data stream and resume it when you are interested in the data.

The plug-in can open an unlimited number of serial ports and trigger different scripts for different ports. It supports high speed connections up to 230 Kbps and buffering of data up to 64k per port.

Troi Serial Plug-in has a debug function, making setup of databases a breeze. You can troubleshoot by testing the arrival of data at the serial port and you can test script triggering too. Troi Serial Plug-in can be reinitialized without quitting FileMaker Pro. This makes it possible to accommodate new or different serial ports dynamically, for example when you plug in a USB to Serial adapter.

What's New

Version 9.0 is tested and made compatible with Claris FileMaker 2025 and 2024, macOS 15 (Sequoia) and 14 (Sonoma) and Windows 11 version 24H2 and 23H2. The function Serial_GetUSBInfo now also returns the location ID in the result. Or use the new switch “-USBLocationID” to get just the locationID. You can use this to identify a USB serial device by determining which physical port it is plugged into. In this version we also added error handling when the plug-in has insufficient privilege for triggering scripts or directly inserting data in a FileMaker file and several other (code) improvements.

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