> I have an old piece of equipment that handles monitoring and remote
> control
> for a site. It has an old serial dot matrix printer that would print out
> alarms situations and status readings. We want to keep the basic unit, but
> the printer has died. I'd like to replace the printer with something like
> a
> Raspberry Pi that would watch the serial printer line and store the data
> to
> a file, probably on a daily basis. I'm not great at programming, so I
> would
> like to find an app that could easily handle this duty.
> Suggestions appreciated.
Epson still makes impact printers, so if needs be you could just replace
the printer.
minicom might work.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26275150/initial-configuration-of-minicom-to-save-the-output-of-minicom-into-a-file
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