How do I connect Bluetooth Mate Gold to arduino Nano?

Wireless & IoT
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Hi,

Can some one guide me through the connections if I want to connect my Bluetooth Mate Gold (WRL-09358) to an arduino board such as a nano without using the main USB lines.

I need the USB to work as a serial input from another device and want to use soft serial to use different pins to output serial data wirelessly to processing.

If I create a soft serial port I can get the bluetooth mate its power, gnd, tx,& rx, but how would I deal with the other two pins (CTS-I, RTS-O)???

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I get the feeling I don’t need those two pins since I am only transferring data and not using the Bluetooth to reprogram the arduino but just want to be sure since the gold is quite pricy… Don’t want to risk frying it