Cannot connect second instance of software

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Bryan
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Cannot connect second instance of software

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I have both a PPB Micro and a PPB Advance. When I start up PPB software (Ver 1.16), it connects to the PPBA and functions normally. However, I cannot start and connect to the PPBM. If I try to connect via a 2nd instance, it sees the PPBM and even assigns a COM port, but when trying to connect, it cannot find the COM port!
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Any suggestions. Any other info that would be helpful?

TIA!

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Can you check the port on each instance.
I tried to replicate your issue with no success
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Using USBVIEW, I was able to determine that, even though the Pegasus software decided that COM9 was the appropriate port, the actual connected port was COM13. I changed from 9 to 13 in Device Manager and both instances connect now.

This begs the question, however, of why the Pegasus software identified an incorrect port.

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Probably it was an older COM port stored in windows registry.
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Can this be improved in the next version of the Pegasus software? It's not very useful app, to be honest, if it cannot find the correct port on its own.

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It works perfectly fine if you have set it to "Auto"
If you have already selected a port it will try only this specific port.
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This is not my experience.

I never set a COM port on the initial install of either the PPBM or the PPBA, which was installed at a later date. If I click Auto Select now, it still fails.

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Probably it has to do with the windows framework. We'll try to replicate your issue and if there is a visible problem we'll fix it in the next release.
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