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This code is designed to use on a raspberry pi. It runs successfully works on the version 3. Other models are unknown, but there should be no reason why it doesn't work.

This program is designed to read text from a serial port, like you would a telnet service on a COM1 on a regular computer, or from the older days when Windows HyperTerminal was in use.

The hardware that could be used for this software would be something like the following: http://www.wipath.com.au/pdr3000.html.

At the present moment, this code is good for just writing the received text to a CSV file. Once the text is received and passed, this can be very useful for real-time monitoring.

This is a python script, and should run out of the box, except you will need to change the port you are receiving data on, and possibly the baud rate.

The program was written for the raspberry pi, so that NAS devices, running Windows VMs didn't have to run 24/7 and consume large amounts of power.