Project build: A Raspberry Pi based inspirational messenger balena 2026-09-20 | Project build: A Raspberry Pi based inspirational messenger
Edge AI at Scale with Edge Impulse and balena balena 2024-06-21 | Join us for a 60 minutes webinar is for an opportunity for embedded software engineers and AI or ML professionals to learn everything that you need to know about Edge AI at scale. Learn from real-world projects where Edge AI has been successfully implemented. At the end, join the interactive Q&A sessions, where attendees will have the opportunity to engage with our experts.
Is the Raspberry Pi 5 the right choice for your next device fleet? balena 2024-04-25 | Dive deep into the capabilities and considerations of deploying the Raspberry Pi 5 in large-scale operations running on balena. This 60 minute webinar aims to provide to embedded software engineers and decision makers the insights to integrate Raspberry Pi 5 into your balena fleet. Learn from real-world use cases and interactive Q&A sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with our experts.
Advanced IoT in Solar Power. A Technical Deep Dive with N3uron and balena balena 2024-03-15 | This 60 minute webinar is an opportunity for embedded software engineers and technical professionals to delve into the integration and optimization of IoT and edge technologies like balena and N3uron within solar power installations.As the renewable energy sector evolves, the role of sophisticated Edge device management becomes crucial. * Get an in-depth look at how balena and N3uron are changing the game in renewable energy.* Understand the practical application of these Edge IoT solutions in current and future solar energy projects.* Join a community of like-minded professionals focusing on the practical, technical side of innovations.
Seeed Studio reComputerJ4012 NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB on the balena platform balena 2024-03-05 | Join us for an unboxing, flashing, deployment, and code release to the Seeed Studio reComputer J4012 using the balena platform. The J4012, which is supported by balenaOS, includes an NVIDIA(R) Jetson Orin(TM) NX with 16GB of RAM and a 128 GB NVMe SSD.After a brief unboxing, we will demonstrate how to flash balenaOS onto the device, including the use of "recovery mode." We will then show how to flash the onboard NVMe using a Linux host PC. Finally, we will push an application to the device and SSH into it using balenaCloud to confirm GPU operation.Links to items mentioned in the video:- balena: balena.io- Seeed Studio reComputer J4012: seeedstudio.com/reComputer-J4012-p-5586.html- balenaEtcher: etcher.balena.io- balena jetson-flash: github.com/balena-os/jetson-flash- balena CLI: docs.balena.io/reference/balena-cli- Application deployed on the balena fleet: github.com/balena-io-experimental/J4012-pytorch
balenaHub Meetup #5 - Grafana and Ming balena 2022-09-28 | We gather once a month to listen to the developers of popular balenaHub Fleets and Project, hear their development journey, offer feedback to improve and support each other.balenaHub makes life easier for everyone working with IoT, edge and physical computing. If you’re a hardware manufacturer, a software engineer, an entrepreneur with a new business idea, a fleet owner that already manages devices, or simply the owner of a Raspberry Pi looking for some apps to try, we’re working to help reduce friction in edge development and hardware.balena built this platform to enable exchange of resources between edge developers. We’re looking to empower everyone out there to build and share their projects and products with the world.This month we had two guests: - Display device information and manage services using balena Supervisor API directly in Grafana with Mikhail Volkov is a founder at Volkov Labs and a long-time Grafana contributor.- MING - An OpenSource LAMP-like stack for the Internet of Things with Alex Lennon founded Dynamic Devices delivering high quality embedded solutions since 2004. He is also balena Ambassador
balenaHub Meetup #4 - Citizen Science balena 2022-07-27 | We gather once a month to listen to the developers of popular balenaHub Fleets and Project, hear their development journey, offer feedback to improve and support each other.balenaHub makes life easier for everyone working with IoT, edge and physical computing. If you’re a hardware manufacturer, a software engineer, an entrepreneur with a new business idea, a fleet owner that already manages devices, or simply the owner of a Raspberry Pi looking for some apps to try, we’re working to help reduce friction in edge development and hardware.balena built this platform to enable exchange of resources between edge developers. We’re looking to empower everyone out there to build and share their projects and products with the world.This month we hear from two owners of citizen science fleets: - Arran Magee - Learner's Block - Keenan Johnson - The Ribbit Network
balenaHub meetup #3 - Home Automation balena 2022-07-11 | We gather once a month to listen to the developers of popular balenaHub Fleets and Project, hear their development journey, offer feedback to improve and support each other.balenaHub makes life easier for everyone working with IoT, edge and physical computing. If you’re a hardware manufacturer, a software engineer, an entrepreneur with a new business idea, a fleet owner that already manages devices, or simply the owner of a Raspberry Pi looking for some apps to try, we’re working to help reduce friction in edge development and hardware.balena built this platform to enable exchange of resources between edge developers. We’re looking to empower everyone out there to build and share their projects and products with the world.This month we will be talking all things Home Automation, schedule is as follows:- Ayan Pahwa, balena Developer Advocate - [esphome-app](hub.balena.io/organizations/g_ayan_pahwa/projects/esphome-app)- Thyge Knuhtsen, QVNTRA - [Zigbee-edge-gateway](hub.balena.io/organizations/tsknuhtsen/projects/zigbee-edge-gateway)- Alan Boris, balena Hardware Hacker - [Water metering with home assistant](alanboris.com/post/2018/05/17/water-metering-with-home-assistant)
Workshop Embedded World: Blues Wireless + Edge Impulse + Datacake + balena balena 2022-06-22 | This is a Developers Workshop celebrated during the Embedded World 2022 by Blues Wireless, balena and Datacake. If you are completely new to the IoT, ML or edge computing, don't worry. We will go step-by-step through everything you need to get started. On the other hand, if you are an advanced developer, we will give you a hand to learn about these technologies and go one step further with the project.The main goal of the workshop is to show you how to build an IoT project that uses a Raspberry Pi running containers, machine vision, Machine Learning at the edge and data visualization in the cloud, using a low power cellular connectivity. In this workshop you are going to use technologies such as Blues Wireless, balena, Edge Impulse and Datacake.
Different ways of deploying an application to balena device balena 2022-05-27 | In this video you'll learn different ways of deploying an application to a balena device:1- balena push 2- deploy with balena3- using balenaHub---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Links mentioned in the video:1- sensor2notion project github repo : balena.io/blog/log-sensor-values-to-notion-using-balena/github.com/iayanpahwa/sensor2notion2- sensor2notion project blog:2- Download balenaCLI - github.com/balena-io/balena-cli/blob/master/INSTALL.md2- balenaHub : hub.balena.io
balenaHub Meet Up #2 - LoRaWAN and TTN applications running on balena balena 2022-05-25 | Find the 2nd balenaHub Meetup where we educate the community about LoRa and LoRaWAN with the balena Ambassador Xosé Pérez and Marc Pous. During the meetup Xosé and Marc will showcase the applications available on balenaHub to run your own LoRaWAN gateway or private LoRaWAN network server in just 1 click.
Getting started with balena - add your first device to balenaCloud 🚀 balena 2022-05-20 | Getting started with balena - add your first device to balenaCloud:In this video Ayan, our Developer Advocate will walk you through the process of adding your first device to balenaOS right from creating a fleet, flashing OS and deploying a release using 'balena-push' method. Once the device is set up you can manage it via balenaCloud dashboard.Once you complete this, here's a small exercise for you, try to deploy balena-python-hello-world-example - github.com/balena-io-examples/balena-python-hello-world , feel free to drop by forums forums.balena.io if you need help ! :)----------------------------------------------------Links mentioned in the video:1- balenaForums - forums.balena.io2- balenaCLI download page - github.com/balena-io/balena-cli/blob/master/INSTALL.md 3- balenaEtcher (Flashing software) - balena.io/etcher4- balenaCloud dashboard - dashboard.balena-cloud.com5- balena node-hello-world application - github.com/balena-io-examples/balena-node-hello-world----------------------------------------------------Chapters:1- 00:00 - Intro 2- 01:25 - The Architecture 3- 04:03 - What makes an IoT fleet?4- 05:58 - balena components 5- 06:45 - balena push workflow6- 08:30 - Creating a fleet 7- 11:00 - Adding a device in your fleet8- 13:12 - Creating a release for devices in your IoT fleet9- 14:30 - Associating your dev machine with balenaCloud using balenaCLI10- 16:10 - push release to devices 11- 18:15 - flashing SD card12- 21:00 - adding another device to the fleet13- 22:22 - application demo14 - 25:10 - how community members and customers use balena?
balenaHub Meet Up #1 - balenaSound 3rd Aniversary balena 2022-04-20 | Find the 1st balenaHub Meetup where all balenaSound users, community members, and contributors joined for a virtual event to celebrate the balenaSound's 3rd anniversary!balenaSound allows you to convert your existing audio device to a single or multi-room audio streamer using a Raspberry Pi. It supports Bluetooth, Airplay, and Spotify Connect and is one of the most celebrated open-source projects from balena. If you haven’t tried balenaSound yet, you just need a Raspberry Pi and a speaker system. Learn all about it here sound.balenalabs.io
Lorenz Technology + balena - AI drone fleet management: provision, deploy, and manage devices balena 2022-01-13 | Lorenz Technology uses balena to manage its AI drone fleet for customers around the world. The drones and their AI software are managed using balenaCloud. Lorenz Technology engineers can build, deploy, and manage AI drone software remotely to help customers as if they were building and deploying locally.Learn more about how Lorenz Technology uses balena to manage these drones conducting security, surveillance, and AI tasks for industrial settings.#balenacloud #lorenztechnology #AI
IoT Project Clinic #06 - New round of residents: LED project, locating via software-defined radio balena 2021-12-11 | Join Team balena's product builders to talk about edge and IoT projects, answer interesting questions, and get a glimpse at our remote work style. In this session, we meet a few new residents and talk about their projects (LED automation and using drones to localize areas using software-defined radio signals). We also catch up with some balenistas on residency life, projects, products, and other questions.00:00 Introductions04:30 Locating using software-defined radio frequencies10:16 LED automation (just in time for the holidays)17:00 Dan is alive and catches us up on propane and electricity24:00 Setting up devices to communicate one another with wi-fi mesh28:12 Q&A: What's next for Labs Residencies (residencies for current members)45:55 Q&A: Can residents create balenaBlocks? What if they inadvertently create them?48:49 Q&A: Is there a hardware abstraction solution for driving various types of LEDs?Check out all kinds of projects at: hub.balena.ioAll of this is brought to you by balena.io -- removing the friction from IoT and edge projects so that you can build your next big thing :)If you think this could be a place for you, come get to know us: balena.io/jobs#internetofthings #iot #edgedevelopment
Voice-activated mood tracker demo using Rhasspy and balena balena 2021-11-23 | One of our amazing balenaLabs residents built this voice-activated mood tracker. You train your computer how to recognize certain moods and track it over time. This could be very helpful to gage how you're, or someone you care about, feeling over time.It's early days for this project, so feedback and improvements are welcome.
IoT Project Clinic 05 - robotics demo, project questions, and more balena 2021-11-20 | In this session, we take a closer look at the prototype balena robotics block and learn a little bit about ROS hardware abstraction. We also dug deep into how to improve one of our internal projects, Meetbot (a Google Meet assistant-type tool).00:00 Introductions07:00 Learning more about the robotics block13:00 A look at the LiDAR scanning17:03 Q&A: How can the community plug into building on and contributing to this block?23:55 Q&A: How do we improve Meetbot, our Hack Week-sourced Google Meet bot?Thanks for joining this open meeting to learn a bit more about our culture and how we work with one another.
Release Party #07: balenaOS Secure Boot and Full Disk Encryption balena 2021-11-11 | Join us once again as we build a new feature, then deploy it live! This time we are going to enable Secure Boot and FDE (Full Disk Encryption) for balena fleets. During the Release Party we will work on x86_64 devices with TPM 2.0 security chip to make balena devices to securely boot. P.S. - If this looks like fun to you, why not come join us? Have a look at our current job openings here: apply.workable.com/balena #remotework #productdevelopment #edgecomputing #secureboot #fde
IoT Project Clinic 04 - Demystifying communications between containers, new balenaBlocks(!), and Q&A balena 2021-11-06 | Welcome to episode 04! Let's take a closer look at how you configure bridge and host modes between multiple containers that need to communicate with one another. We also cover a balenaSound question and learn a neat trick for running scripts via balena SSH on localmode!Alex walks us through new balenaBlocks and here's a fun challenge: can you make a project completely out of blocks? If you do, let us know and you might win a prize.00:00 Introductions03:30 Best practices for communications between containers24:00 Q&A: How do I create my own multi-room balenaSound UI using Snapcast?38:45 Q&A: How do I execute scripts via balena SSH while using localmode?47:00 A closer look at some new balenaBlocks59:00 Build a project completely out of balenaBlocks and win a prize?????Thanks for joining live or recorded on YouTube. These sessions are just one of the many ways our team works out in the open, removing the friction from IoT projects and edge development one episode at a time :)Resources from the episode:github.com/badaix/snapcast/blob/master/doc/json_rpc_api/v2_0_0.mdgithub.com/badaix/snapwebgithub.com/balena-io-modules/livepushforums.balena.io/c/show-and-tell/92hub.balena.io/challengehub.balena.io/blocks
IoT Project Clinic 03 - Game demo, Halloween projects, and project Q&A! balena 2021-10-30 | Is this session, we answered some user questions about edge device OS image versioning, proximity sensors, talked through some device troubleshooting and saw a few Halloween demos, and an alternative game demo by recent balenaLabs graduate, Julia!Jump to a specific section:00:00 Introductions02:32 Q&A: "What's the best way to select an image to pin to after the "main" image has been updated?"18:08 Halloween projects! Pumpkin lights and a spooky speaker28:28 Q&A "How do we sort out device host mode with multi-container projects?"33:05 Troubleshooting the balena "Pixel Buddy"!43:56 Q&A: "What kind of edge/IoT sensor lets me detect proximity between each other?"47:34 Alternative game controller DEMO!Links:Pumpkin Eyes Project: github.com/balena-io-playground/pumpkin-eyesHalloween Sound Board: github.com/iayanpahwa/halloween-sound-boardPixel Buddy: github.com/balena-io-playground/pixel-buddyRemember, if you think you'd like to work with folks like us, hanging about and building an amazing product and company, we're hiring: balena.io/jobsThrough 30 November 2021, any project added to hub.balena.io will be entered to win a cash prize and be featured on balenaEtcher! Get more details at balena.io/challengeEveryone's invited to join these weekly sessions where balenistas work in the open to help one another figure out edge projects and answer questions from the community. See you on the next one!
Test run of the balena curtain automation project balena 2021-10-30 | This is a quick demo of the curtain automation project. So far we have the build working, taking in sensor data, and with a minimum-viable curtain operation.There are plenty of steps and improvements to make down the line. It's really cool to see the first steps of this.Get all the details from the project post: balena.io/blog/improve-sleep-with-home-automation-curtains-balena
balena Hackathon 2021 - Getting Started with balenaCloud balena 2021-10-15 | balena Hackathon 2021 - Getting Started with balenaCloud
balena Hackathon 2021 - Build a Weather Station with balenaSense balena 2021-10-15 | balena Hackathon 2021 - Build a Weather Station with balenaSense
balena Hackathon 2021 - Build an Ad-blocker with PiHole balena 2021-10-15 | balena Hackathon 2021 - Build an Ad-blocker with PiHole
balena Hackathon 2021 - Build an ADS-B Flight Tracker balena 2021-10-15 | balena Hackathon 2021 - Build an ADS-B Flight Tracker
balena Hackathon 2021 - Build an AI Bird Feeder balena 2021-10-15 | balena Hackathon 2021 - Build an AI Bird Feeder
IoT Project Clinic Ep. 02 - Prototyping, joining an open fleet, Fin block, and wi-fi connect Q&A balena 2021-10-02 | Welcome back to the show. In this episode we answer a few prototyping questions, talk serendipitous engineering, how to diagnose open fleet devices, get a closer look at the Fin balenaBlock, and answer questions about wi-fi connect. We also give gobs and gobs of affection to our internal site-generator sweetheart, Landr. Ah, and we coordinated matching t-shirts.00:00 Introductions04:30 Projects of all sizes welcome, serendipitous engineering09:30 Do I prototype with cheap parts or expensive ones? Which removes the most friction?14:50 Q&A: How do I make sure my device joined an Open Fleet?18:42 Q&A: How do balenaHub users know what's inside of a project before joining an Open Fleet?23:12 Tools spotlight: Landr!25:00 Q&A: Explain like I'm five-- what is the Fin block?33:55 Q&A: How do I share port 80 for multiple uses (e.g. using wi-fi connect and accessing a dashboard)39:30 Q&A: With wi-fi connect block, how can we inform other blocks on the name of actual used SSID?47:25 Fin block demoProduct builders one and all are welcome. Check out other projects on our Show and Tell category forums.balena.io/c/show-and-tell/92 See you on the next one.
The IoT Project Clinic Ep. 01 - Water leak detection, robotics platforms, and IoT coffee brewing balena 2021-09-23 | Welcome to the first episode of the IoT Project Clinic. We welcome teammates and community members to share their project progress, ideas, and questions with a warm, kind group. We're sharing notes and ideas, encouraging one another, and figuring out this whole IoT edge development thing.Product builders one and all are welcome. Check out other projects on our Show and Tell category. See you on the next one. forums.balena.io/c/show-and-tell/92
The IoT Project Clinic Episode 00 - Air quality sensors, home automation, and smart vans and grills balena 2021-09-16 | We're trying something new here, dear community. Introducing the IoT Project Clinic, a place where edge developers and product builders new and experienced can come talk shop, ask questions about projects, and get new ideas.Based on an internal project where every new balenista takes on a personal project to learn all about our platform, we're making it live and welcoming anyone interested in edge projects to join. Share your questions, your project build logs, and meet the team.
IoT Happy Hour #64: Summer Recap and Whats New balena 2021-09-11 | As we come back from the summer holiday, we recap what is new in the balena ecosystem, show off some new projects, and run through a list of upcoming Events where you can find us presenting. There might even be a surprise announcement or two. :-)
IoT Happy Hour #63: balena Ambassador Projects balena 2021-07-31 | This week on IoT Happy Hour, we are hanging out with some of our Balena Ambassadors, who will show off the projects they are currently working on, and give a brief overview of the types of things they hack on for work and in their spare time.
IoT Happy Hour #62: Edge Impulse for Linux running on balena balena 2021-07-24 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are going to show how to run Edge Impulse for Linux on balena, enabling your device to use all the Machine Learning features made by Edge Impulse. Hang out the Happy Hour with balena and learn how to deploy Edge Impulse on a Raspberry Pi or balenaFin in few clicks and start detecting objects. Expect classifying birds, humans, vibrations and more.Read more here hackster.io/400741/edge-impulse-object-detection-on-balena-os-fb76ae00:00 Welcome and introductions03:10 Edge Impulse introduction05:18 balena is hiring07:54 What's on your desk?18:48 Edge Impulse for Linux32:35 Moving a project from Edge Impulse wasm to Edge Impulse for Linux on balena34:38 Demo Edge Impulse for Linux on balena37:32 Cluster visualization on Edge Impulse39:45 balena ML edge projects in the future44:40 Edge Impulse on Arduino sending data to balena gateway over BLE connected with Home Assistant on balena visualizing HVAC vibration54:50 Bird classifier and Telegram with Edge Impulse for Linux on balena59:25 Wrap-up 1:01:35 How is going to be the Edge ML in the future?1:03:15 balena is hiring1:04:40 Next episode and goodbye
IoT Happy Hour #61: Turn your Raspberry Pi into a WiFi repeater balena 2021-07-17 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are going to show how to convert a Raspberry Pi into a WiFi repeater or a WiFi Access Point in a simple way. Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn how to build a WiFi repeaterin 1 click from balenaHub. We are going to show the differences between WiFi repeaters and WiFi access points and more. Read more here balena.io/blog/turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-wi-fi-access-point-or-repeater00:00 Welcome & Introductions06:08 EtcherPro got the CE certification07:10 balena is hiring10:05 What's on your desk?10:42 @TheThingsNetworkCommunity + Basics Station @influxdata8893 @Grafana finally working together on a Pi with balena13:50 What's on your desk (part ii)?19:06 Extending WiFi with Raspberry Pi25:38 balena WiFi repeater and Access Point35:00 Deploy balena WiFi repeater on a Raspberry Pi36:31 Configuring Access Point SSID and password when Deploy with balena41:36 Access Point from WiFi to Ethernet43:48 LED patterns of the balena WiFi repeater47:30 WiFi repeater affect the speed of the network?49:05 DHCP on the WiFi repeater?49:30 Testing balena WiFi repeater52:01 Collaborate on the balena WiFi repeater project54:30 Could this project be converted into a block?56:22 Testing balena WiFi repeater (part ii)57:24 Wrap-up 58:58 balena is hiring1:00:44 Next episode
IoT Happy Hour #60: The Things Stack running on Raspberry Pi and balena balena 2021-07-10 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are going to show how to deploy The Things Stack Open Source Edition network server on a Raspberry Pi with balena. After installing The Things Stack (TTS) network server we will showcase how to deploy a Basics Station gateway running along with TTS. Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn how to manage your own private The Things Stack network with a complete stack of this LoRaWAN technology. At the end we will try to deploy with the Basics Station gateway and TTS, the connector block with InfluxDB and the dashboard balenaBlock to have an end-to-end system running in 1 click. Read more about balena The Things Stack here github.com/xoseperez/balena-tts-lns00:00 Welcome and introduction03:05 Deploy The Things Stack on a Raspberry Pi04:54 balena is hiring07:23 What's on your desk?13:42 LoRaWAN network server and network federations22:12 Episode hands-on steps24:50 Deploy The Things Stack on a Raspberry Pi28:35 docker-compose explanation34:25 Testing The Things Stack network server35:25 Failing to add Basics Station gateway along with The Things Stack on a Raspberry Pi39:26 Running xginx webserver on balena40:05 Why last release was failing?41:34 Advanced networking for The Things Stack network server47:22 Using balenaSound project in hospitality48:45 Deploying Basics Station with The Things Stack on a Raspberry Pi56:20 Adding connector, influxDB and dashboard blocks along with Basics Station and The Things Tack on a Raspberry Pi1:00:20 balenaSense v21:03:05 The Things Stack and basics station with Telegraf, influxDB and Grafana balenaBlocks1:11:48 Create an Application on The Things Stack1:14:00 Debugging basics station service1:16:31 Self-signed certificate for The Things Stack1:17:35 Continuing configuring the LoRa node Application on The Things Stack1:21:05 Failing on showing the last demo1:22:06 Conclusions of installing The Thing Stack on a Raspberry Pi on balena1:24:59 balena is hiring1:26:18 Good bye
IoT Happy Hour #59: balenaDash or how to build a web frame with balena balena 2021-07-03 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are going to show how you can create a kiosk running balenaDash on your device with an attached display. Bring your Raspberry Pi and display to build a fleet with us. Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn more about the balenaDash project, how it works and how to deploy it. You will learn about some blocks and balenaHub, do not miss it. Read more about balenaDash here balena.io/blog/make-a-web-frame-with-raspberry-pi-in-30-minutes And the balenaDash repo is here github.com/balenalabs/balena-dash
IoT Happy Hour #58: Intel OpenVINO on balena balena 2021-06-26 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are going to showcase how to use Intel OpenVINO using balena.Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn more about the Intel OpenVINO Toolkit, how it works and how to install it on balenaOS. Feel free to join with your x86 device and join our fleet of Edge AI devices.Test the balena Intel Open Vino project here: github.com/balena-io-playground/balena-OpenVino00:00 Welcome and introductions03:43 balena is hiring07:13 What's on your desk?12:20 Intel Open Vino introduction19:38 Step by step into Intel Open Vino 24:15 Models available on Intel Open Vino29:25 Tricks to install Intel Open Vino31:10 Demo Intel Open Vino on balena40:10 Differences between SSD and Yolo 42:10 Demo Product detection model Intel Open Vino on balena46:00 Demo Human Pose estimation model Intel Open Vino on balena47:50 ASL detection model Intel Open Vino on balena54:08 Run two separate models on different nets at the same time on balena56:44 Question Answering demo Intel Open Vino on balenaCloud1:01:38 What is the easiest way to start with Intel Open Vino?1:04:15 balena is hiring1:06:15 Glitches experiences on Intel Open Vino on balena1:10:00 Good bye
IoT Happy Hour #57: balenaOS network setup with NetworkManager balena 2021-06-19 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are joined by Zahari Petkov from the balenaOS team to explain us more tricks about network management when using balenaOS NetworkManager. Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn more about the network connectivity on your balena device with WiFi, Ethernet and cellular connectivity. We will learn to configure the network setup and more. Read more about balena Network Manager here balena.io/docs/reference/OS/network/2.x00:00 Welcome and introduction02:19 balena is hiring04:50 What's on your desk?19:52 What is NetworkManager and why we used it at balena?23:52 ModemManager on balena24:45 How to configure WiFi to a balena device with nmcli31:12 Persist WiFi configuration after rebooting a balena device35:16 Differences between system-connection folder on boot and etc40:26 nmcli examples43:55 Keep changes on configuring the network47:23 How to connect a cellular modem on balena and NetworkManager?49:30 How to priorize one connectivity profile to another? (ip route)58:30 Define a static IP on your balena device and modify DNS setup1:09:10 network_mode on docker-compose1:15:55 Recommendation for fleet owners on networking configurations1:22:00 Ideas for next episode on network debugging1:24:15 balena is hiring1:25:15 Good bye
IoT Happy Hour #56: balena in space balena 2021-06-12 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are joined by Nico Maas and other balena Ambassadors to talk about his experiments running balena in space. Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn about what is needed to bring technology in a rocket and the results of running balenaOS devices in space. Next technology in Mars will run balena on it? Make your bets. Read more here of the 2019 space mission balena.io/blog/beyond-the-cloud-docker-containers-in-space
IoT Happy Hour #55: Helium, Light Hotspots and balena balena 2021-06-05 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are joined by the Helium team. We are going to celebrate that there are more than 50.000 hotspots out there using Helium LoRaWAN network. Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn about the Helium People's Network, the chip shortage struggle, validators and the future of the Helium hotspots. Install the Helium Light Hotspot on your Pi if you have a LoRa concentrator hub.balena.io/nebraltd/helium-light-hotspot00:00 Welcome and introductions03:47 balena is hiring08:48 What's on your desk?18:08 What's Helium?25:48 Helium in Antartica?26:55 What is a Helium Hotspot?28:24 Helium Improvement Proposals30:38 LoraWAN gateways or Helium Hotspots37:15 How to use the Helium network?38:10 DIY being reopened?39:28 Hotspots availability and chip shortage crisis40:42 Light gateways and Light hotspots43:45 What are the Validators and the Consensus groups?51:00 balena and Helium53:10 Is mining energy efficient?55:22 Are ISPs able to block Helium network?57:00 Nebra is using balena58:25 balenaHub and Nebra Light Hotspot1:02:10 What's next on Helium?1:06:53 balena is hiring1:08:30 Good bye
IoT Happy Hour #54: balenaHub: Open Fleets and balenaSound balena 2021-05-29 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are joined by balena Hardware Hackers to talk about the balenaHub latest update: open fleets and projects. We are going to experiment with open fleets using the balenaSound fleet. Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn about the balenaHub open fleets and as well about the balenaHub projects. We will join open fleets and showcase how to publish one open fleet application on balenaHub. Expect balenaSound live demo and barbacue chats. Read more information here balena.io/blog/introducing-open-fleets-and-self-submitted-apps-and-blocks-on-balenahub00:00 Welcome and introductions02:27 balenaHub openFleets and balenaSound introduction06:23 balena is hiring09:06 What's on your desk?22:52 balenaHub openFleets introduction33:03 balenaHub projects introduction35:34 balenaSound fleet42:15 What's a LocalUI?44:53 Joining the balenaSound fleet48:30 Services and plugins installed on balenaSound50:51 balena Blocks introduction55:54 How to publish an openFleet app on balenaHub?1:00:00 Testing balenaSound with LocalUI1:02:14 Configuring balenaSound DAC via LocalUI1:05:18 How to build a LocalUI for your balenaHub app1:08:16 Experience joining a fleet on the first boot1:12:10 What's next on balenaHub?1:15:35 Nebra openFleet on balenaHub and next IoT Happy Hour episode1:17:46 balena is hiring1:19:24 Wrap-up and goodbye
IoT Happy Hour #53: Getting Started with ROS on balenaCloud balena 2021-05-22 | This week on IoT Happy Hour, we are going to take a look at running ROS (Robot Operating System) in a container on a balena device. You'll learn how easy it is to get started with our sample repos!* Ros2 foxy base: github.com/balena-io-examples/balena-ros2-foxy-base* Ros2 foxy desktop: github.com/balena-io-examples/balena-ros2-foxy-desktop* Ros2 pose estimation project for a Jetson Nano: github.com/balena-io-examples/balena-ros2-CUDA-trt-pose-estimationP.S. - If this looks like fun to you, why not come join us? Have a look at our current job openings here: apply.workable.com/balena 00:00 Welcome and Introductions03:03 ROS (Robot Operating System) introduction04:18 What's on your desk?06:36 ROS framework running on a balena device21:21 Demonstration of ROS on balenaCloud29:55 Ros2 launch simulation37:05 ros2 cuda demonstration41:48 How to privilege containers on docker-compose43:48 Pose estimation and visualization with ros on balena51:34 ros desktop demo running on NVIDIA Jetson on balena1:02:36 Conclusions and next events
IoT Happy Hour #52: Intel NUC and devices with eMMC - The Flasher image balena 2021-05-15 | In this week's episode, we are going to discuss (and show off) how to deploy devices like the Intel NUC that have internal storage on an SSD, and talk about the difference in balenaOS images meant to flash a device.P.S. - If this looks like fun to you, why not come join us? Have a look at our current job openings here: apply.workable.com/balena 00:00 Welcome & Introduction01:30 Release Party 6: balenaHub open Fleets review05:42 balena is hiring08:33 What's on your desk?16:06 Intel NUC on balena introduction21:42 balenaOS running on x86 instead of arm26:52 RISC-V hardware support on balena30:44 Flashing an x86 with balenaOS35:46 x86 development board under $20038:36 x86 on balenaCloud42:37 Configuring the BIOS for installing balenaOS on the x86 device50:40 Installing balenaOS on Advantech x86 via EFI shell1:00:46 Advantech x86 connected to balenaCloud1:03:13 balena is hiring1:04:03 Conclusions and goodbye
Release Party #06: Introducing Open Fleets on balenaHub balena 2021-05-14 | Join us once again as we build a new feature, then deploy it live! This time we are developing the ability to create an "Open Fleet", where anyone can flash and add their IoT device to an existing application, and immediately begin running that workload.You can also submit balenaBlocks, pre-built chunks of code, to help out other edge developers build their next great idea.P.S. - If this looks like fun to you, why not come join us? Have a look at our current job openings here: apply.workable.com/balena#remotework #productdevelopment #edgecomputing
IoT Happy Hour #51: How to choose the right SBC for your IoT project balena 2021-05-08 | On this episode, the balena IoT Happy Hour team will discuss with the balena Customer Success Team about how to choose the right SBC (Single Board Computers) for your projects. Choosing a SBC brings a lot of talking points on the table. Expect discussions about POC vs production devices, use cases, budgets and more.P.S. - If this looks like fun to you, why not come join us? Have a look at our current job openings here: apply.workable.com/balena 00:00 Welcome and introduction01:37 balena is hiring04:50 What's on your desk?14:10 How to choose a single board computer for your IoT project?16:12 infarm use case18:55 Remote devices use case21:30 PoC vs Production devices38:10 Intel NUC GPU and SBC power consumption42:42 Recommendations for light workload devices and Total Cost of Ownership47:35 Edge AI devices1:03:00 Wrap-up and goodbye
IoT Happy Hour #50: Arm shows off a Raspberry Pi Pico controlled by a Balena device balena 2021-05-01 | On this week’s episode, we are going to be joined by the Arm team to show off their work using a Raspberry Pi 4, to control a Raspberry Pi Pico. Carlo Grisafi and Sandeep Mistry will demonstrate how to build and deploy to a Pi 4 to balenaCloud like usual, but then use that device to control and use a Pi Pico, which is an Arm Cortex-M0 powered microcontroller device.P.S. - If this looks like fun to you, why not come join us? Have a look at our current job openings here: apply.workable.com/balena00:00 Welcome and Introduction03:00 Raspberry Pi Pico introduction04:22 What's on your desk?10:42 balena is hiring13:10 Raspberry Pi Pico controlled by a balena device24:52 Other devices compatible?30:24 Raspberry Pi Pico pins35:00 Raspberry Pi Pico with LoRaWAN connectivity42:40 Bluetooth or other hats for the Pico available?44:20 Discussion about Aliexpress49:51 Discussion about Helium 54:04 balena is hiring55:10 Goodbye
Release Party #05: Making balena UX improvements balena 2021-04-23 | Join the balena team as we we develop the user experience of our new Deploy with balena function, and balenaHub, all on a live stream! The goal of the 5th balena Release Party is to help smooth the experience for users navigating the hub and using our new Deploy with balena feature (DWB). We are going to add more context at each step of the DWB process using project metadata and introducing a clearer summary section for the application page on balenaCloud. P.S. - If this looks like fun to you, why not come join us? Have a look at our current job openings here: apply.workable.com/balena Don't see an exact fit? No problem, simply Design Your Own Role! apply.workable.com/balena/j/2A9DEA16E5#edgedevelopment #IoT #productimprovement #UX #UI #remotework
IoT Happy Hour #49: Migrating TTN Gateways From V2 to V3 with balena balena 2021-04-17 | This week on IoT Happy Hour we are joined by Xose Pérez from RAK Wireless to cover an important topic: Migrating your The Things Network gateways and devices from v2 to The Things Stack v3! Hang out and learn about the difference between them, and how to make the switch in a really simple way.Read more information here github.com/balenalabs/basicstation00:00 Welcome and introductions02:06 Why do we need to upgrade from TTN V2 to The Things Stack V3?08:40 balena is hiring10:40 What's on your desk?24:30 Migrating TTN V2 gateways to V3 The Things Stack28:04 Migrate LoRa nodes from V2 to V336:10 Migrating TTN v2 gateways to v3 The Things Stack (part ii)39:20 Manage the balenaCloud environment variables to configure the gateway43:30 The build failed46:00 Migrating TTN v2 gateways to v3 The Things Stack (part iii)52:00 Creating the gateway into TTN v2 and The Things Stack V358:58 Ready to migrate the entire fleet of gateways in one click.1:05:25 Q&A: Firmware upgrades over LoRa and Firmware upgrades over allwize.1:07:33 Sum up and good bye
IoT Happy Hour #48: Fleet monitoring with Datadog and balena balena 2021-04-10 | On this episode, the balena IoT Happy Hour team will talk about how to gather device metrics in real-time from a balena fleet using Datadog. Monitoring your fleet of devices with an agent running beside the application, you can better understand what the application is doing, watch CPU consumption, network activity, and then determine if the application can use smaller hardware, or conversely need to upgrade to a more robust device. Expect live demos and instructions to build it yourself at home. Read more here: balena.io/blog/iot-fleet-monitoring-with-datadog-and-balenacloud-how-small-agent-containers-make-a-big-impact00:00 Welcome and introduction01:21 Fleet health diagnostics introduction04:53 What's on your desk?14:55 Fleet health diagnostics with Datadog and balena20:00 Does Datadog IoT Agent affect the device performance?24:00 Datadog IoT Agent on balena introduction28:10 Fleet health diagnostics introduction34.55 Comparing performance of Pi4 and NanoPi with balena running Kerberos on Datadog37:49 Measure application network traffic needs41:00 Continue comparing performances of the devices55:20 balena is hiring57:00 Good bye
IoT Happy Hour #47: Building Apps with the new balena blocks balena 2021-04-03 | On this episode, the balena IoT Happy Hour team will talk with the balena Hardware Hackers about some new balenaBlocks. balenaBlocks are building blocks to reduce the friction of coding your next edge or IoT app (for instance, a balenaHub submission). Expect building a new applications with some new balena blocks. github.com/balenablocks00:00 Welcome and introductions01:36 Balena is hiring03:20 New balenaBlocks introduction05:22 What's on your desk?09:18 Alan's new camera12:26 balena Floppy disk20:14 Sensor block30:20 Hardware for the Sensor block35:17 More sensors compatible with the Sensor block37:10 Data visualization and Data transformation41:58 Introducing a new sensor on the hardware46:45 Pulse block49:23 Hardware for Pulse block53:35 Data Visualization and Data transformation59:45 Pulse block counting1:04:45 Good bye
Release Party #04: Improving balenaCloud Docs balena 2021-03-19 | Game plan: The balena team resolves as many documentation issues as they can together in a limited amount of time. The aim is to effectively update/improve balenaCloud documentation. In the docs release party, the balena team will try to resolve as many issues as we can in a limited time. The party is an informal, fun-filled sprint where the team gets together to work on a collective problem and learn from each other.
IoT Happy Hour #46: ADS-B Flight Tracker with balena balena 2021-03-13 | On this episode the balena IoT Happy Hour team with the developer from the balena community Ketil Moland will build an ADS-B Flight Tracker application. Learn more about Flight radars and how to run this application on a Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson, Intel NUC and balenaFin on your home with a RTL-SDR compatible USB dongle receiver. Download the ADS-B Flight Tracker application on hub.balena.io00:00 Welcome and introductions04:51 What's on your desk?15:17 ADS-B Flight Tracker introduction18:05 Hardware needed to build an ADS-B Flight Tracker20:34 Build ADS-B Flight Tracker29:20 Etcher or Move devices?32:35 Ketil's camera details33:51 Building ADS-B Flight Tracker36:45 balena is hiring38:15 Setting up ADS-B flight tracker48:00 ADS-B Flight receiver in the US49:35 FlightAware configuration for ADS-B Flight Tracker52:55 Demo ADS-B Flight Tracker1:10:25 balena is hiring1:10:55 Good bye
