Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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It's game time on this week's IoT Happy Hour! We are going to be joined by AlexK from the balena Community to talk about his awesome balena Minecraft Server project, and then we will of course give it a try!


Install Minecraft from hub.balena.io


00:00 Welcome and introductions
06:50 What's on your desk?
14:28 Minecraft server on balena
20:10 DNS for Minecraft server on balena
22:17 Licenses for Minecraft server
28:44 Playing Minecraft
31:33 Connect to the Minecraft server on balena
33:29 How many people can connect? And minimum requirements of the hardware
37:22 Playing more Minecraft
40:42 JAR needed for playing and more licenses
45:42 David killed by dolphins
46:12 Community members joining the Minecraft server on balena
53:25 What is this running on?
56:28 Is Minecraft server on balena running on Pi400?
1:00:30 Wrap-up (Try 1)
1:04:08 balena job offer: Frontend Engineer
1:05:35 Wrap-up
1:06:45 Next episode: Pimoroni