Using ESP32 as external WiFi & Bluetooth for Raspberry Pi

[MooseXMTP]

Hi,
I want to use ESP32 as a WiFi & Bluetooth SoC/controller for my Raspberry Pi. I found a guy on the Pi forums [https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=342816] who successfully did that using this GitHub repo [https://github.com/espressif/esp-hosted], but he was last active ~2 months ago, so I don't think I will get any response.
The problem is I'm new to this stuff and the guy didn't say how he did it nor does the repo (at least I can't find it).
I opened my own topic [https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopi ... 5#p2067045], and I was directed here.

Does anyone know how to get this working?

Cheers

[bidrohini]

Have you checked the answers here?
https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?t=8211

[MooseXMTP]

The guy said: " I know the standard answer appears to use an ESP8089" I know that this library supports WiFi, but with the ESP8266, is there a way to have GPIO Bluetooth? I could use ESP8089 with ESP8266 and a separate BT module.

Oh, and I've been looking at ESP32 modules the only ones I can find are development boards - no standalone ESP. Does anyone know a source that doesn't take ages to ship?

Thanks for the help.

[ESP_Sprite]

8089/8266 doesn't have BT hardware. For ESP modules, check the usual sources - Mouser, Digikey, Farnell, what have you.

[MooseXMTP]

Ok, I'll check it out

Thanks