Is there a way to use BLE and WiFi but not at the same time on single anteena devices?

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Hello, I am aware that devices that have only one antenna can use WiFi or BLE, but not at the same time, yet, is there a way to unload the WiFi library and let free the antenna so that way the BLE can take control of it, and vice versa?

I am working on a project where we need to grab the intensity of the BLE signal of a device, and send it via WiFi to a MQTT Broker using mqttClient, for that, I need to be able to switch from BLE to WiFi and vice-versa on execution time.

I am using an Arduino Nano 33 IoT w/ headers.

Best regards.

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The antenna is a physical thing attached to a circuit board. Changing any software cannot change that fact.

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That is true, and since the anteena can be used only by one library at the same time ( ArduinoBLE or WiFiNINA ), i want to know how can i disable one and use the other, and vice versa.

I don't want to use both at the same time, but i want to be able to switch when i want to, and that's my question :slight_smile:

Best regards.

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I have never tried it, but there appears to be some information here.

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We are NOT talking about antennas, now, are we? What are you really asking about?

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