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If using on a Raspberry Pi platform:

In order to use GPIO pins 14 and 15 as a serial interface on the Raspberry Pi,
you need to disable the built-in Bluetooth adaptor. This distribution will not
operate correctly without this being done.

To disable Bluetooth on the Pi, edit the C</boot/config.txt>, and add the
following line:

    dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt-overlay

Save the file, then reboot the Pi.

=head1 METHODS

=head2 new($device, $baud);

Opens the specified serial port at the specified baud rate, and returns a new
L<RPi::Serial> object.