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NZXT CAM reserving all Serial ports

As a BioMED engineer, I'm continuously using an Arduino for diffrent kind of projects.

After I installed NZXT CAM I wasn't able to program the Arduino anymore.
I found out NZXT CAM is reserving all the Serial COM ports, which makes it unable to program the Arduino since its using Serial communication to program until I close NZXT CAM (after which all me LED's go back to standard white).

The link listed below maybe a usefull guide to understand the problem better;
https://michaelbergeron.com/blog/arduino-com-port-busy

A solution to this problem is to only reserve the port, thats only needed for communications to the HUB and / or the Kraken watercooler.

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  • May 12 2021
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  • Kim Vürtz commented
    20 Oct 05:29am

    Now we are in late 2023, and the issue still persists. NZXT come on, keep your fingers off COM ports your software is not using

  • Guest commented
    21 Jul, 2021 06:25am

    Same here and I work for Microchip. Every time I need to work on my evaluation kits, I need to exit CAM

  • Guest commented
    11 Jul, 2021 09:07am

    Is there any update related to this issue?

  • Joe G commented
    21 Jun, 2021 11:03am

    I'm having the same issue. Looks like this has happened before: https://www.reddit.com/r/NZXT/comments/fzx0ic/arduino_users_here_does_the_nxzt_cam_software/

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