Serial Monitor problems

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Using Windows 10 ver. 1803 and Aduino IDE 1.6.

I have tried Windows HyperTerminal and TeraTerm.

  1. Running HyperTerminal or TeraTerm first locks the serial port
    then running Python gets "could not open port 'COM6': Permission Error(13, 'Access is denied.', None, 5)"

  2. Running Python program first apparently locks the serial port
    then running HyperTerminal gets "access to port denied"

Obviously, they can't open the same port at the same time.

What's the solution to getting a Serial Monitor that runs with the Arduino at the same time.

Thanks in advance

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Which Arduino are you using? If you want to use hardware serial to communicate with a device (Python), you could use a USB to TTL converter and a set up a (second) software serial port (Uno, etc.) or a spare hardware port (Mega, etc.) to print serial troubleshooting information to serial monitor.