Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
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!
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00:00 Introductions
02:32 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 speaker
28:28 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-eyes
Halloween Sound Board: github.com/iayanpahwa/halloween-sound-board
Pixel Buddy: github.com/balena-io-playground/pixel-buddy
Remember, 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/jobs
Through 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/challenge
Everyone'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!
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 Introductions
02:32 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 speaker
28:28 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-eyes
Halloween Sound Board: github.com/iayanpahwa/halloween-sound-board
Pixel Buddy: github.com/balena-io-playground/pixel-buddy
Remember, 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/jobs
Through 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/challenge
Everyone'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!







![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)