Creating a BT PAN/USB RNDIS Router using OpenWrt

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A working BT PAN router on OpenWrt (WZR-HP-G300NH) that presents a Remote NDIS Ethernet on the LAN side using BlueZ and standard kernel networking; setup uses only dbus-send at boot to control BlueZ (no custom daemon), OpenWrt buildroot and packages, and a USB Bluetooth dongle. The talk shows exact d‑bus commands, interface names (bnep, br-lan, nap), how RNDIS appears over USB, and a demonstrated NuttX PANU interop.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 11:15Motivation and hardware
3. 12:40Bluetooth PAN and bridging
4. 13:01Wi-Fi use cases in OpenWrt
5. 42:24Bluetooth PAN deep dive
6. 51:14Firmware config and updates
7. 1:00:52Networking applications
8. 1:08:55Conclusion and resources

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