7 posts tagged with “balenahub”

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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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Introducing the Cloud Relay Block: send data to your favorite cloud provider

Often customers want to send data from their balena device to a cloud IoT provider like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. These providers allow you to register your device to their IoT service and provide public key credentials so you can send the data securely. Introducing the Cloud Relay balena Block Our balenaCloud service already provides backend management for the device, so we created some tools…

June 22, 2022 / 6 min

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Five ways you can contribute to the balena community

Calling all balenaCloud and openbalena users-- we’d love to hear from you and see what amazing things you’re doing with the platform. Learn five ways you can contribute to the balena community, share your work with the world, and get some cool swag while you’re at it. Why should you contribute? We’re always on the lookout for community members who do amazing things with balena, like create edge…

June 09, 2021 / 5 min

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Introducing Open Fleets and self-submitted apps and blocks on balenaHub

We are excited to introduce open fleets on balenaHub. Now any ambitious edge developer can create an Open Fleet, Project, or balenaBlock, self-submit it to balenaHub, and share it with the entire world. We launched these changes as part of a Release Party. Now anyone can contribute edge and IoT apps to balenaHub or join an open fleet to add a device to an interesting project. What’s a release…

May 13, 2021 / 7 min

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Release Party: Making balena UX improvements to support new users

We're excited to introduce some UX improvements that can help new users starting with Deploy with balena on balenaHub. From application and release build speed improvements, to new UI elements, we added a number of new features to remove the friction from the first-time user experience. What’s a release party? Every once in a while, our team gets together to sprint on releasing a new feature. In…

April 23, 2021 / 4 min

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How balenaSound inspired the audio block

In this blog post, we’ll explain how the audio block came to be. We’ll put on our IoT fleet owner shoes, dive deep into balenaSound’s history, and show you how one of our most popular projects helped build the very first balenaBlock. As you may already know, our mission statement at balena is to “reduce friction for fleet owners and unlock the power of physical computing.” Creating IoT…

April 19, 2021 / 8 min

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Introducing balenaHub: an easier way to find and publish apps and projects for edge devices

Now you can find IoT and edge projects created by other product builders, like you. Simply go to balenaHub, find a project that you want to try, add your devices, and begin. We're excited to announce balenaHub! We built this feature as part of our second Release Party. Massive thanks for every teammate who contributed to launching this next exciting step of how we share and build IoT and edge…

November 25, 2020 / 4 min