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Picocom is a minimal serial communications tool that doesn’t get in your way. You can use it to quickly connect to system consoles, switches, embedded devices, amateur radios, and anything else that has a serial port.


This is “picocom-ng”, a fork of the original picocom project. This version brings:

  • Configuration file support, including per-project configuration
  • Bugfixes
  • Automated testing
  • Automated releases

Find the latest release here, or grab the git repository.