16 posts tagged with “balenaOS”

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Maximizing Resources in the Chip Shortage: How balenaOS Testing went Virtual

The global chip shortage that started back in 2020 is an ongoing global crisis. It’s the situation where demand for semiconductor chips & parts used to build Single Board Computers (SBC) way exceeded the supply available. It was a perfect storm that forced industries to either adapt or break down. The crisis did break a few things with a surge in prices, out-of-stock notices, and driving delivery…

March 07, 2023 / 7 min

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From PR to Release; OS Testing at balena

header Automated testing of balenaOS ensures that we can continuously deliver new features, address bugs, and support new device types in a timely manner. Here at balena, we utilize hardware-in-the-loop and virtualized testing. In this blog post we will give a high level rundown of the tools and pipeline that we’ve developed to achieve that! What is balenaOS? balenaOS is an embedded linux…

February 10, 2023 / 10 min

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No Hardware? Virtualize balenaOS devices on MacOS!

Header Finding hardware to develop on in 2023 can be difficult; Why not develop your applications directly on your development machine? This blog post walks you through setting up a virtual balena device, in a virtual machine (VM), on MacOS (using a GUI). We'll specifically focus on getting up and running with an unmanaged virtual aarch64 device, that you can join to a fleet using the balena-cli…

February 09, 2023 / 5 min

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BalenaOS AWS Amazon Machine Images now available

balenaOS, the lightweight, robust and reliable Linux-based embedded operating system running on over 100 different boards and designed specifically to run containers is now available to run in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) come preloaded with a cloud config application that provisions the instance into balenaCloud on boot when a config…

February 01, 2023 / 4 min

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Theia Scientific using balena and Grafana for Machine Learning-Powered Real-Time Image Analysis with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin

As the name implies, textbook solutions are great solvers of textbook problems. Yet, production cases often introduce an unusual twist, setting you up against something unique. The existing "one size fits all" solutions indeed work, but, most of the time, for the price of a bitter aftertaste from paying for the underutilized functionality while one or two truly desired features are still lacking…

January 26, 2023 / 8 min

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Seeed Studio: The Story of How 200,000 LoRaWAN® Devices Were Deployed in one Year with balenaCloud

Rapid growth typically depends on an ability to scale quickly—from shipping logistics to global distribution and coordination—but these efforts are largely unseen and underappreciated. Seeed Studio understands these challenges intimately, and is ready to share insights about their hugely successful SenseCAP M1 rollout with balenaCloud, including specific thoughts on balena’s built-in scaling…

January 23, 2023 / 6 min

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balenaEngine aufs storage driver deprecation

The balenaEngine is a specialized container engine and a critical element in balenaOS, the lightweight, robust and reliable Linux-based embedded operating system running on over 100 different boards and designed specifically to run containers. aufs storage engine deprecation balenaEngine is a fork from Moby Project, which deprecated the use of the aufs storage driver with the 19.03.x release…

August 29, 2022 / 2 min

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Sunsetting vpn.balena-cloud.com and Introducing Cloudlink

We have introduced Cloudlink (cloudlink.balena-cloud.com) as a replacement for balena VPN (vpn.balena-cloud.com) on May 07, 2022. This is because balena VPN will no longer be usable on December 10, 2023 due to its CA Certificate expiring and additionally because we have found that there may be confusion with the name and its function. Sunsetting vpn.balena-cloud.com and introducing Cloudlink Read…

July 04, 2022 / 7 min

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Unified balenaOS releases are now available

balenaOS, the lightweight, robust and reliable Linux based embedded operating system running in over 100 different boards and designed specifically to run containers, is now (since v2.85) available in a single unified image that can be configured at runtime for development or production mode. Unified OS releases now available from balena We’re moving on from maintaining both development and…

June 29, 2022 / 3 min

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Using NFS Server to share external storage between containers

At Theia Scientific and Volkov Labs, we created the Theiascope™ platform, which includes an application specifically designed for Machine Learning (ML)-enhanced microscopy that makes real-time analysis on any digital microscope possible. For managing our test and production fleets deployed at universities, government laboratories, and commercial scientific facilities, we rely on balenaCloud. Set…

June 28, 2022 / 8 min

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Building a DonkeyCar Autonomous Vehicle with balena

Over the past several years at balena, we have noticed more and more customers, potential customers, and even makers and hobbyists asking about balena’s ability to manage fleets of autonomous vehicles and robots. While we do indeed have customers that use balena for their fleets of drones, submersibles, and delivery bots, I thought it would be neat to explore the topic further and build a sample…

March 23, 2022 / 12 min

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QVNTRA leverages balena to scale Aging-in-Place IoT solution

The United States Census Bureau shows more than 54 million people were over 65 in the US on July 1 2019, and it’s projected that by 2050, that number will increase to 83.7 million. With a rapidly aging population causing an increase in demand and an ever-shrinking labor market, senior living providers are seeking to scale their resources and services through technology. QVNTRA, an emerging senior…

February 01, 2022 / 4 min

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Create a fleet of centrally-managed Bluetooth low-energy(ble) beacons with ble-lighthouse and balena

Low-energy Bluetooth beacons bridge the physical and the digital world. Whether it’s navigating indoor devices or broadcasting sensor information in a connectionless state, beacons have efficiently enabled the Internet of Things(IoT) to be part of many use cases. Introducing ble-lighthouse, the best way to build fleets of Bluetooth low-energy beacons As a part of my balenaLabs Residency, I decided…

January 26, 2022 / 8 min

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Build a heartrate monitor using an e-ink reader, a Raspberry Pi, and balena

Are you looking to decrease your stress and improve your mental well-being? Follow along with my DIY guide for monitoring your heart rate during the work day! Introducing balenaHealth, a heart rate monitor based on balena and a Raspberry Pi I built a heart rate monitoring system for my home office using balena technology as part of my balenaLabs Residence. Use the steps from this guide to follow…

January 12, 2022 / 15 min

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Interfacing balena edge devices with AdafruitIO

If you’re someone like me who can solder wires together, and knows how to program a single board computer to blink addressable LEDs, but always struggles when it comes to creating a beautiful front-end user interface to control them over the web, this blog post is for you. Learn how to use AdafruitIO to interface with balena devices Let’s explore how to interface edge devices on balena using…

January 06, 2022 / 7 min

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How to use an NVIDIA GPU on an x86 device with balenaOS

Some projects, especially ones utilizing machine learning require access to the computing power of an attached graphics processing unit (GPU). This is the case for software that depends on CUDA, NVIDIA’s parallel programming model. Use Nvidia GPU on x86 device with balenaOS We've demonstrated how to enable CUDA on Jetson-based devices running balenaOS, but in this guide, we'll outline how to…

December 21, 2021 / 6 min