Using BLE with the RP2040 referencing the RP Pico W

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I have been searching out ways to program the BLE with the RP2040 in platformio. Since Raspberry pi has the Raspberry pi pico W board that has wifi/bluetooth I wanted to try it programming with arduino in platformio. There looks to be support for wifi/bluetooth programming micropython and c++ via the sdk but I didn’t find anything for platformio and arduino.

I am able to blink the built on LED of the PicoW in platformio by using this configuration in my ini file:

[env:rpipicow]
platform = https://github.com/maxgerhardt/platform-raspberrypi.git
board = rpipicow
framework = arduino
monitor_speed = 115200

Am I looking at this all wrong or is there just no support for wifi/bluetooth on the PicoW at the moment for platformio?

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No support? The Arduino-Pico core is full of support for BLE support libraries:

https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico/tree/master/libraries

KeyboardBLE, MousBLE, JoystickBLE

Same as https://arduino-pico.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bluetooth.html

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For PlatformIO specifically

https://arduino-pico.readthedocs.io/en/latest/platformio.html#bluetooth-stack

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This is my first attempt at doing something like this, so I’m not familiar where to look for support. I appreciate your feedback.