Feature Request - It would be nice to have the ability to copy all output from the serial monitor to a text file, or even have an automatic logging option for the serial monitor.

[tkuraku]

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[bhavyangupta]

If you are using linux then you can use the following to write the output to a file:

platformio serialports monitor --port=<port> --baud=<baud> >> output_file

[s4m0r4m4]

Good idea! this would be a great feature.

[ivankravets]

Sorry for the delay. I'm going to close this issue because we don't plan to fix it soon. We use PySerial or CLI where you can forward buffer into file. See #670 (comment)

For more advanced SerialMonitor, please take a look at https://freeware.the-meiers.org/

[ivankravets]

Please upgrade to the latest version via pio upgrade --dev and re-test with log2file filter. See docs https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/core/userguide/device/cmd_monitor.html

Does it work?