Multiple Serial Monitors?

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I have two Arduinos attached to various devices as well as each other through I2C, and I would like to view the Serial Monitor for both of them (they are on COM4 and COM5), at the same time, in order to debug my software.

However, everytime I try to change the port in one Arduino window, it changes the port in the other as well. Also, opening a new Serial Monitor closes the previous window, preventing me from having 2 open at the same time.

I tried to find some results on this problem but I could not find any. Is there a workaround for this or am i just being a newbie?

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Open a separate instance of the IDE for each board and set the serial ports in tools.

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groundfungus:
Open a separate instance of the IDE for each board and set the serial ports in tools.

OK, turns out I'm just a newbie.

I figured, hey, two windows, seems like a "separate" instance...nope...

Thanks a lot.