I thought serial1 was taken up by Bluetooth so I needed a nother to interface my peripheral.
Ahh. No, you're totally fine. Bluetooth is totally independent of the Serial hardware.
It's only an issue if you were to try to wire a USB-TTL converter to it and then program it over wired Serial, but there shouldn't be any real need to do that.
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Ahh. No, you're totally fine. Bluetooth is totally independent of the Serial hardware.
It's only an issue if you were to try to wire a USB-TTL converter to it and then program it over wired Serial, but there shouldn't be any real need to do that.