63 posts tagged with “balenacloud”

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Creating an IoT marketplace and launching Fleets for Good

Today we’re launching a big update to balenaHub, creating a marketplace to find and share resources for IoT building products and services. Alongside, we’re launching Fleets for Good (formerly open fleets), our way of sharing our technology to enable users who want to use our platform for a good cause. balenaHub rebrand Back in November 2020 we launched the first iteration of balenaHub. Then in…

March 01, 2023 / 5 min

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How to use an external AWS S3 provider for openbalena

EDITOR’S NOTE: We welcome this community contribution by Bart Versluijs, also known as bversluijs on the balenaForums. As a constant contributor and prototyper using openbalena, we couldn’t help but have him share some build tips and tricks. In this post, we’ll be connecting an external AWS S3 provider to openBalena, instead of using the integrated Minio S3 container. How to use AWS S3 external…

June 01, 2022 / 7 min

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Blocks: new management functionality and a public roadmap for what's next

Today, our concept for IoT app enablement graduates from a concept to a first-class entity in the balenaCloud dashboard, with plenty of exciting roads still left to travel. It's a long, interesting road for balena Blocks This post is about what you can do with blocks today, why we needed to correct course, and where we are heading with Blocks in the future. Buckle up– here we go! What’s a Block…

March 03, 2022 / 8 min

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The balenaCloud dashboard: why we change stuff and move things

There’s a lot of thought and reasoning behind what seem like trivial changes that I want to share with you all publicly. From the outside, I feel that the effort that we put in to ensure things such as product longevity, maintainability, and reliability may not be obvious, so I want to explore that today. Chris here, your friendly neighborhood product guy, back with another attempt to take down a…

February 14, 2022 / 12 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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Raspberry Pi Zero 2W now supported by balenaCloud

It’s no secret that here at balena, we are huge fans of the Raspberry Pi single board computers and the ecosystem of sensors, HATs, and other add-ons that enable the small device to function as an IoT or Edge platform. balenaCloud now supports the Pi Zero 2 W So when the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2W launched a few weeks ago, we immediately set to work building our custom BalenaOS for the new device…

December 03, 2021 / 3 min

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balenaLabs Residencies: our quest to improve onboarding at balena

Onboarding is more than learning your new role and meeting teammates. It’s also about managing your own expectations, that of others, and finding a way to get as much context about your new role and company as possible. balenaLabs logo Here's how balena used the feedback and observations of new joiners to try a new way to onboard new teammates and put them on a path toward success. I remember my…

December 02, 2021 / 11 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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Build a self-hosted, voice-controlled mood tracker using Rhasspy and balena

Mood trackers keep a record of a person's mood at regular intervals. Their purpose is to help look for patterns in mood variations over time caused by different situations and circumstances. However, manually feeding data into a mood tracker can be a cumbersome task, and some people may have privacy concerns about using third-party mood tracking services. In this blog post, I’ll show how I…

November 24, 2021 / 17 min

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Build one (or many) robots with balena: Introducing the tech stack and robot block

From my earliest conversations with balena, it was clear my role would be to help integrate robotics tools such as ROS (Robotic Operating System) with the balena ecosystem. I found this as the perfect excuse to start building upon a decade-long dream: an accessible robotics platform that can be used to teach, learn, and develop for years to come. Introducing the balena robot block and our approach…

November 04, 2021 / 10 min

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Improve your sleep (or other parts of your life) with automated curtains at home

While there are plenty of home automation lighting projects out there to help you automate and control LEDs, I wanted to control something physical within the home - curtains or blinds. Check out my balenaLabs residency project where I prototype a way to automate curtain or blind movement to adjust the heat and light that enters my home. Why is this important? Circadian rhythm is an important…

October 28, 2021 / 15 min

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How I built a video game prototype with custom hardware and balena

I’ve been wanting to make this alternative controller game for a while and found the perfect opportunity to do so at balena. Read on to learn about my idea, how I used balena to prototype my project, and what next steps I’ll take to bring this edge project to life. Animated GIF of project My game is about an ancient spirit trapped inside of an ornate brick. The picture below shows some concept art…

September 27, 2021 / 11 min

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The road to multi-app: transitioning balenaCloud Applications to Fleets

Applications on balenaCloud are now Fleets. We’ve changed this to progress us towards our long-term vision of disentangling devices from software, allowing you to manage both independently and solve for use cases of ever-increasing complexity. We want to provide ultimate flexibility for fleet owners and believe that working within the confines of the application scope was limiting what we could…

August 09, 2021 / 6 min

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How to run edge AI with OpenVINO on balenaCloud

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process from start to finish and show you how to deploy an AI application using an Intel NUC and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit, fully containerized and ready to scale to any number of devices with balenaCloud. Developers getting ready to begin AI projects have no shortage of options when it comes to platforms, frameworks, models, and sample…

July 27, 2021 / 18 min