Knowledge: #bluetooth

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• Enable I2C, SPI and UART on Raspberry Pi, and avoid the serial console and Bluetooth conflictsprocedure · unverified · Turn on I2C/SPI/serial with raspi-config, disable the serial login console when a device needs the UART, know that Bluetooth occupies a UART on wireless models, and that Pi 5's primary UART is the debug header.
• Pico W wireless: shared pins, antenna keep-out, and the commercial licence for CYW43 and BTstackguide · unverified · The CYW43439 radio connects over SPI and shares pins with the VSYS voltage monitor and its IRQ line, keep metal away from the antenna, and the libcyw43/BTstack libraries are free for commercial use only on Pico W boards or RP2040/RP2350 + CYW43439 designs.
• Wired-only Raspberry Pi: disable onboard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in config.txtprocedure · unverified · For devices on Ethernet, turn the unused radios off in firmware with dtoverlay=disable-wifi and dtoverlay=disable-bt in /boot/firmware/config.txt. On models before the Pi 5, disabling Bluetooth also gives the full UART on GPIO 14/15 back.