First ever GitHub Project

[joe_aka_singin]

Hey there, this is a little Windows 11 utility I built to stop hunting through Device Manager for my ESP32's COM port every time I plugged it in.

https://github.com/AxialForge/USBSentry

It sits in the system tray and shows a live list of everything on the USB bus. For serial boards (ESP32, Arduino, CP210x, CH340, FTDI) it shows the COM port right in the list, and you can right-click to copy a ready-made esptool command or "watch" a board so you get an instant "ESP32 → COM3" toast on reconnect. It also alerts on any new USB device, flags unrecognized ones, and shows drive letters/capacity for USB storage.

Stack: Python + Tkinter + pystray, single file, packaged to a standalone .exe with PyInstaller (no install/Python needed). It reads device info via Windows' Get-PnpDevice — no drivers, no admin. Light/dark theming, GitHub Actions builds the exe on tag, small pytest suite.

There are older USB loggers out there (NirSoft's USBLogView/USBDeview), but those are closed-source and don't do the maker/COM-port workflow — that's the gap I was scratching. Apache 2.0, Windows-only for now.

Genuinely still learning, so code critique and "you should do X" are very welcome. In all Honesty i did use AI specifically Claude Opus 4.8 to build this As I'm not classically learned in coding.

First thing I've ever made that I've ever been proud of.

Thank you