Beginners • Enabling UART for Raspberry Pi 5 without disabling other functions

I'm attempting to connect a GPS module using the GPIO 14 and 15 ports of my Raspberry Pi 5 and enable it with the Pi. I have a couple of concerns before continuing with the process. To my understanding, I need to connect my module to the GPIO14 and GPIO15 pins of my Pi, add dtparam=uart0_console to the bottom of my config file, and then somehow confirm the baudrate I want to connect to my device at (9600). The extra concerns I had were that some tutorials disable the serial console to my best knowledge, disable the main UART 3 pin header. Will this interfere with other connections on the GPIO board that send data to the Pi, such as GPIO2 or GPIO3, since I'm trying to run multiple modules on my singular Pi, connecting them all through a Python program? For futher info, I'm using a NEO-6M GPS Module on Raspberry Pi 5B rev 1.0, connecting an accelerometer and speaker to other pins. I planned to connect the GPS Module in python using pynmea2 library and connect to the serial using the serial library.

TL;DR: Can I enable UART for GPIO14/GPIO15 without disabling the functions of other GPIO ports (such as GPIO2 or GPIO3)? If so, how?

Statistics: Posted by KeyDog — Fri Oct 24, 2025 7:30 pm — Replies 0 — Views 14

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