[vibroluxious]

This is likely a dumb question but I honestly don't know the answer. My assumption is no.
I purchased Rhinegold ISTA + a couple of years ago before the vendor disappeared. The software setup for that put the K-DCAN cable on COM Port 9.
I then downloaded BMW Tools and found I had to switch that over from COM 1 to COM 9 to get everything to play nicely together.
The K-DCAN cable that came with the software died so I ordered one from BimmerGeeks. I went to try and use it and it wouldn't read. I switched it from COM 3 to COM 9 and all seems to be well now.

Does it actually matter what COM port I use as long as everything is set to the same thing?

PS I now know that I could have likely downloaded ISTA+ for free even back then. Live and learn I suppose.....doh

[hassmaschine]

No, it really doesn't. As long as your cable is physically assigned the same port that the BMW software is configured to.

Make sure to set the latency of the port to 1 (or whatever it's called, it defaults to 16 which messes up the signal).

[vibroluxious]

Thanks guys, that was my assumption.

[sdbmwcoding]

It depends on what the ediabas.ini port is set to. It needs to match device manager port for it to work properly

[dpaul]

Originally Posted by hassmaschine

No, it really doesn't. As long as your cable is physically assigned the same port that the BMW software is configured to.

Make sure to set the latency of the port to 0 (or whatever it's called, it defaults to 16 which messes up the signal).

+1, but for the sake of accuracy, latency is set to 1.