98 posts authored by “Team balena”

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balenaCloud pricing changes and credits: let us explain

Recently, we added the ability to purchase credits for balenaCloud, and today we’re announcing changes to our pricing effective on March 8th, 2023. Let us explain these changes, our thinking behind them, and look at how they may affect you. A reminder: balenaCloud credits Last week, we launched a brand new feature to balenaCloud, allowing you to purchase credits upfront at a discount to reduce the…

February 06, 2023 / 6 min

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Save with balenaCloud by pre-purchasing device credits

Today we’re announcing a brand new feature within balenaCloud, allowing you to pre-purchase balenaCloud credits upfront, providing a discount and reducing the overall cost of running your fleet. If you can anticipate your future usage and growth on the platform, you can now pre-purchase credits (device-months) up-front, and receive a discount based on the quantity you purchase. These credits are…

February 01, 2023 / 1 min

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balena monthly roundup - September 2022

BalenaEngine is a fork from Moby Project, which deprecated the use of the aufs storage driver with the 19.03.x release series. Because of this balenaOS is also looking to deprecate the use of AUFS. Read more about this and how it might affect your devices in our latest blog. Also in this month's email: Two new IoT project tutorials Find out which events we’re attending this month New Fleets and…

September 16, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - August 2022

You might remember that a little while ago we renamed balenaCloud “applications” to Fleets. This month we surfaced a new concept on balenaHub and balenaCloud: Apps. Apps are a response to a specific use case, built out of many services or balenaBlocks, and are self-contained, doing only their job on a single device. Read more about Apps and the road to multi-app on our blog. Also in this month's…

August 11, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - July 2022

balenaOS is now (since v2.85) available in a single unified image that can be configured at runtime for development or production mode. We’re moving on from maintaining both development and production images to reduce operational overhead as well as giving us a better understanding of how our users would manage an image in production. Instead, you can now access development mode via runtime…

July 12, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - June 2022

This month, balenaForums member bversluijs shared his expertise on using openbalena to manage fleets and to prototype ideas. In his blog post he teaches you how to use an external AWS S3 provider for openbalena instead of using the integrated Minio S3 container. Check out the whole tutorial here. Also in this months email: Connect a Seeed sensor to monitor your garden Bring your model railroad…

June 14, 2022 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - May 2022

Here at balena, we have noticed fleets of Helium miners and LoRaWAN gateways growing enormously over the last year. Helium is a crowdsourced LoRaWAN network running on blockchain where people personally host Helium hotspots to provide network coverage. If you don’t have yours yet, check out our blog post where we show you how to deploy a fleet of Helium data-only hotspots on Raspberry Pi and Seeed…

May 16, 2022 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - April 2022

Any block published to balenaHub is now available to download directly as a container image, no additional registry pushes required. The balenaHub Container Registry also includes image release management and image references that you can use directly in your docker-compose files. Also in this months email: Build an autonomous vehicle (DonkeyCar!) Build an automated LED Sunlamp EtcherPro is now…

April 12, 2022 / 3 min

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balena monthly roundup - March 2022

When you log in to the balenaCloud dashboard, you’ll see Blocks are now a primary entity. We created Blocks, drop in chunks of functionality which are common across many IoT applications, to help jumpstart your IoT app development. Now you can add and manage blocks using all of the same tools you are familiar with for managing a fleet on balenaHub. Also in this months email: Tracking your habits…

March 16, 2022 / 3 min

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balena monthly roundup - February 2022

We’re constantly improving our dashboard to help you, our user. See the notice that tells you of a new version of the dashboard? We merge and deploy changes once they’re ready so you can benefit from improvements straight away. Check out the new changelog by clicking the version number on the bottom left corner of the dashboard to see not only what the change was but also why it was made. In this…

February 16, 2022 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - January 2022

Hello dear readers, This month, by popular demand, we’re teaching you how to use balenaOS with NVIDIA GPUs on an x86 device. Check out our balenaHub Challenge finalists, our latest balenaPodcast episode with ideamarket.io, and learn how to use Adafruit IO on your next balena project. As always, check out our latest balenaHub additions, community highlights, and check out the new job opportunities…

January 14, 2022 / 3 min

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balena monthly roundup - December 2021

Hello dear readers, It's time to vote for your favorite projects on balenaHub: simply join or fork interesting Fleets and Projects. Also, try adding Raspberry Pi Zero 2 Ws to your balenaCloud fleets, go behind the scenes of our balenaLabs residencies, and check out some last-minute holiday gift inspiration. As always, you can join us on the IoT Project Clinic, Fridays at 4pm UTC, to see us working…

December 15, 2021 / 4 min

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balenaCloud outages: their causes and what we’re doing to resolve them

While we always work with scale in mind, our platform has recently been less reliable than our customers have come to expect during these last few months. balenaCloud has experienced an explosion of growth which has put the platform under a lot of pressure, exposing areas that require improving. We want to apologize to our customers for the impact these outages have had and explain our plan going…

November 26, 2021 / 4 min

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balena monthly roundup - November 2021

Hello dear readers,Remember, balenaHub Challenge entries (for a chance to win cash and be featured on Etcher) are due at the end of November. Good luck and have fun! Catch up with a few of our virtual workshops from the last few weeks below. From the Labs, we have a home curtain automation project and a sneak peek at a robotics-focused balenaBlock. As always, see our community highlights and open…

November 16, 2021 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - October 2021

Hello dear readers,We’re all fresh from our annual Summit 2021, so we have all kinds of new ideas and energy to bring into the rest of this year and into the new one. We hope to see you at our Virtual Hackathon coming up this month. Also, check out our new competition that features some great prizes up for grabs. We’re also extremely excited that the first EtcherPros have been shipped!As always…

October 14, 2021 / 5 min

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balena monthly roundup - September 2021

Hello dear readers, This month, we inspire you to build. Check out this tutorial on creating your own balenaBlocks and see new Projects and Fleets on balenaHub, including a citizen science project encouraging you to build your own environment sensor. Our ambassadors also share what they have been building this summer and there are new build logs on the balenaForums. There's a new episode of the…

September 13, 2021 / 4 min