Solutions
Twelve programs in five groups. Each one is described in full — what it does, how to install it, what every setting means — and each one is free to download without an account.
Industrial automation and IoT
Protocol gateways, an MQTT broker and serial-port tooling
ELX-MQTT Broker
A complete MQTT broker with a live web dashboard
v1.0.39
ELX-MODBUS
A bridge between the Modbus bus and an MQTT broker
v1.2.38
ELX-Terminal
A terminal for COM ports, raw TCP and TCP through an SSH tunnel
v1.0.0.3
ELX-ESP Programmer
An ESP32 and ESP8266 flashing tool for Windows with its own bootloader protocol
v1.0.0.6
Networking and remote access
Private networks, remote control and a firewall that asks first
Files and cloud storage
Your own file cloud on your own server
Server monitoring
What a Linux machine is doing right now, and what it did last week
Desktop tools
Small Windows programs that do one thing quickly
Which one do you need?
The groups below overlap less than their names suggest. If you are unsure where to start, these are the questions that usually decide it.
| If you need to… | Look at |
|---|---|
| Collect readings from Modbus equipment and publish them as MQTT | ELX-MODBUS |
| Run your own MQTT broker with a dashboard, users and bridges | ELX-MQTT Broker |
| Talk to a device by hand — COM port, RAW TCP or through an SSH tunnel | ELX-Terminal |
| Connect machines in different buildings into one private network | ELX-VNetwork |
| See and control a remote screen, or move files to it | ELX-AnyRemote |
| Store and share files on a server you control | ELX-Cloud |
| Know that a server's disks are failing before they fail | ELX-HealthMonitor |
| Open a folder of photographs without waiting for it | ELX-PhotoViewer |
| Take a screenshot, annotate it and paste it into a message | ELX-ScreenShot |
| Find out what is holding port 8080 | ELX-PortUse |