TL;DR
Monitoring serial ports on Windows can feel like a frustrating scavenger hunt, especially for those of us coming from a software background. You plug in a device, like an Arduino board or a USB-to-serial adapter, and suddenly you're faced with the challenge of figuring out which COM (Communication) port it’s attached to. This is a common scenario that Lucadentella experienced, leading to the creation of a nifty little Python program called SerialPortMonitor.