Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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On this episode the balena IoT Happy Hour team will build a custom balenaOS image from source for a single board computer that doesn't currently have balena support.

Learn how to make an operating system, balenaOS, run on a single board computer.

Currently these are the boards compatible with balena: balena.io/docs/reference/hardware/devices


00:00 Welcome and introductions
03:11 Building balenaOS from source Introduction
04:40 What's on your desk?
08:31 Where to start for supporting new boards?
15:00 balenaOS introduction
22:18 Minimum Linux version for balenaOS
24:05 Building balenaOS for Libre Computer
48:25 How to build the new balenaOS
51:36 Test the new balenaOS image
57:42 Customer success process for supporting new boards
1:01:02 Introduce the new balenaOS board into balenaCloud
1:05:07 Next episode