11 posts tagged with “etcher-featured”

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Build your own multi-room audio system with Bluetooth, Airplay, and Spotify using Raspberry Pis

Last updated: 6th October 2020 Turn your spare Raspberry Pis and speakers into a fleet of synchronized multi-room audio players. You can start from scratch or upgrade an existing balenaSound device to add the multi-room functionality for free! Before you start Updates We’re continually updating this post along with the project code, you can find a log of all our updates below. 6th October 202…

February 17, 2020 / 8 min

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Control your devices from a web browser using Bluetooth

Here’s how to use the Web Bluetooth API and balena to control Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices remotely from a browser. This guide shows you how to build a simple LED setup that you can switch on and off from a web browser. We’ll also dive into how this works and how it can drive other awesome ideas. Build a simple LED setup that you can switch on and off from a web browser with balena. In this…

February 04, 2020 / 10 min

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Two projects, one device: turn your Raspberry Pi into a multitool!

Built one of our projects, and want to expand upon it? Perhaps you want to build a second one, but lack the hardware? Fear not! One of the great benefits of balenaCloud is that you can combine different projects and run everything on one device. In this short guide, we’re going to take a look at how to run multiple projects on a single device, allowing you to do more with the hardware you already…

January 07, 2020 / 10 min

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Monitor air quality around your home with Home Assistant and balena

UPDATE on 12 May 2021: Note that the latest version of balenaSense (v2) no longer provides air quality readings or support for the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT. To learn more about these changes, see this section of the project’s readme file. This guide illustrates how to run Home Assistant using balena on a Raspberry Pi to create a beautiful dashboard accessible from anywhere in the world. In the case…

December 16, 2019 / 13 min

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Build an “LED Alerter” for your remote work office setup

With many people now working from home due to recent events, it would be useful to have a device that alerts household members when we are on a call, in a meeting, or are otherwise preoccupied. In this tutorial we will build a web-controlled set of LEDs that you can use whenever you need to send a visual signal of your availability to someone in the next room (or on the other side of the world…

November 21, 2019 / 17 min

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Turn your old speakers or Hi-Fi into Bluetooth, Airplay and Spotify receivers with a Raspberry Pi and this step-by-step guide

Last updated: 16th March 2021 If you’ve got an old Hi-Fi or sound system with an AUX input, this project is for you. Try balenaSound, a starter project to quickly and easily add Bluetooth, Airplay and Spotify Connect and multi-room capability to an old Hi-Fi, speakers, or any other audio device using only a Raspberry Pi! Before you start Updates We’re continually updating this post along with the…

July 08, 2019 / 12 min

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It's a sign: build a remote controlled digital display with Screenly OSE and Raspberry Pi

Try this project to get up and running with a display you can control remotely to display photos, videos, dashboards, web pages, and digital signage. This tutorial was put together by the friendly folks at Screenly. They've recently updated their open-source digital signage software project to work seamlessly with the balenaCloud platform, enabling you to very quickly deploy and easily manage…

June 05, 2019 / 13 min

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Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi

UPDATE on 7 July 2021: Note that this guide is for the legacy balenaSense v1. See our updated tutorial for the current version of balenaSense (v2). _Last updated: 07 July 2021 Have you ever been interested in monitoring the air quality in your home or outside where you live and work? This project, which we’ve dubbed balenaSense, will get you up and running with a setup to take readings of…

March 19, 2019 / 17 min

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Deploy network-wide ad-blocking with Pi-hole and a Raspberry Pi

If you’ve ever been frustrated with intrusive and distracting internet advertising, malware and other malicious spyware and tracking software online, and wondered if there was a solution to stop it, this is the project for you. We’re going to set up a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole to block unwanted content network-wide in about 15 minutes! Before you start Introduction For all you adblock/ublock…

January 28, 2019 / 19 min

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Build festive lighting for the holidays with balena

This post has been updated: We published a revised and simplified version of this guide (with extra features!) for December 2019 here. Interested in building an LED lighting project with Raspberry Pi? We’ve got you covered! In this post we’re going to take a look at setting up a custom RGB LED matrix and driving it with a Raspberry Pi, Fadecandy board and Glediator software. For the longest…

December 20, 2018 / 26 min

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Make a web frame with Raspberry Pi in 30 minutes

Last updated: 26th October, 2020 Try balenaDash, a simple project to quickly get you up and running with a web frame to display family photos, dashboards, videos, and more. Introduction balenaDash is a Raspberry Pi powered digital photo/web frame with a difference! It can display a fully GPU accelerated web page or app of your choosing and allow you to update that content from anywhere. Here're…

November 22, 2018 / 12 min