These are some very simple tools to proxy data from a serial port on windows (COM) to a WebSocket so that a html page can read this data and act on them.
The project is written in PHP and consists of two separate programs:
com2ip- connects to a COM port and forwards the data to a local TCP portip2web- Acts as the server. Establishes listening ports for the raw TCP port and a WebSocket server. This should be started first before anything else.
You need to have php installed (preferrably 7.0+) and composer installed. Then run composer install to download all the dependencies.
You will also need the Direct IO php extension installed. Download it from the pecl site