Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 13 minutes ago
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
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









![IoT Happy Hour #11: balenaFin: Survival in a Harsh Environment
On this weeks episode of balena.io #IoT Happy Hour were doing a live-streamed build and installation of a balenaFin with a senseHAT and balenaSense running on it. The balenaFin will be installed live on Davids roof in Phoenix, Arizona.
The goal of the experiment is to show you how to deploy an IoT device from scratch with balenaCloud and leave it in a real harsh environment.
balenaSense project [https://www.balena.io/blog/monitor-air-quality-around-your-home-with-home-assistant-and-balena/] enables your device (Raspberry Pi, balenaFin and similar) with a senseHAT [https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/] read temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and air quality, and push this data to a Grafana dashboard that you can access from anywhere with balenaCloud. Internally it uses InfluxDB, Telefrag and MQTT.
balenaSense on Github: https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sense IoT Happy Hour #11: balenaFin: Survival in a Harsh Environment](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zqB-hAdSp9U/mqdefault.jpg)