23 posts tagged with “product”

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Introducing balenAir: an affordable air quality monitor for the home or office

Learn why we decided to build an indoor air quality device under the new balenAir brand powered by our own platform and product-building tools. Introducing balenAir It’s a mission to not only create an amazing product for people all over the world, but also to demonstrate how to use the balena ecosystem from end to end: using balena Blocks and App Enablement to create the code, balenaCloud to…

July 26, 2022 / 4 min

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The road to multi-app, mile 2: surfacing Apps on balenaHub and balenaCloud

In the first part of this series, we renamed the old concept of balenaCloud “applications” to Fleets. Due to that work, today, we’re able to surface a new concept on balenaHub and balenaCloud to continue driving down the long and winding road to multi-app: Apps. Road to multi-app Previously, we removed the concept of applications by renaming it to Fleets. That change ultimately enabled what we’re…

July 19, 2022 / 5 min

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Beware of false, harmful software claiming to be balenaEtcher

It has come to our attention that there is a false and harmful version of our software, balenaEtcher, being promoted online. This post is an examination of the discovery, and a reminder to only download balenaEtcher from our official sources: the balena.io website, or GitHub repository. What happened? We recently discovered that there is a quite convincing copy of the balenaEtcher website at…

March 10, 2022 / 3 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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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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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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Offline Updates make it easier to update balena devices without the internet

Many balenaCloud users enjoy the seamless integration between their connected IoT devices and our tools that make device monitoring, managing, and updating easy. However, what if your devices have limited connectivity by design? Introducing Offline Updates: a process that lets you to preload and reflash a device so it retains its unique balena identity, apps, and configurations-- all without a…

February 09, 2021 / 6 min

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Balena introduces new collaboration and organization management features

We’ve been thinking a lot about how companies and teams work together on balenaCloud, and wanted to make it easier to collaborate without sacrificing control or security. The result of our work is a new top-level feature called Organizations. Start using Organizations in balenaCloud today With this release, Organizations become central to device, application and user management across our platform…

December 17, 2020 / 4 min

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'Deploy with balena' makes it easier to deploy and share IoT apps

Have you ever shared an open source IoT project only to be overwhelmed with questions about how to deploy it, or underwhelmed with the lack of adoption by the community? Even if you labor over your README instructions, it can be hard to make device provisioning and deployments simple and repeatable. Streamline how you deploy your IoT application Our new Deploy with balena capability lets you…

September 03, 2020 / 5 min

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Introducing lightweight high-level device metrics in balenaCloud

Now you can surface and view device performance metrics on the balenaCloud dashboard. This is a lightweight way to get a high-level summary of CPU, RAM, and storage utilization, CPU temperature, undervoltage warnings, and other important metrics on every device within your fleet. This device metric summary is now available in balenaCloud without any extra work. For our advanced users, access this…

September 03, 2020 / 3 min

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How my cat helped me build a better IoT app

Modernizing my app made it far easier to spy on my American Shorthair. My cat Tucker is a somewhat predictable animal who likes to curl up in predictable spots around the house, so he’s the perfect subject for surreptitious video surveillance and just the sort of motivating force I needed to rework a Raspberry Pi project I’d been putting off for some time. I’d previously set up video surveillance…

August 18, 2020 / 13 min

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Balena partners with Coral to enable AI at the edge

Today we’re announcing that balena and Coral are partnering to simplify how developers deploy and manage AI applications at the edge. Coral is a platform of hardware components, software tools, and example models for building devices with local AI. Coral's on-device ML acceleration technology helps developers build fast, efficient, and affordable solutions for the edge. Balena helps developers…

July 07, 2020 / 3 min

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Adding deprecation policies to balena-sdk and CLI

We now have a deprecation policy on balena-sdk and balena-cli. If you or your teams use these modules, you’ll want to upgrade to at least one of the following versions: balena-sdk (node) v12.12.0 balena-sdk-python v7.8.0 balena-cli v11.13.0 Please see our documentation for more details about the deprecation policy. We ask that you update the SDK or CLI modules to the latest version to ensure the…

May 25, 2020 / 1 min

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Deprecation of Python 2 base images in balenalib

As of January 1st, 2020, the Python Software Foundation announced the sunsetting of the Python 2. This means that from that date there will be no further improvements, even if someone were to identify a security risk. Their very strong recommendation is to upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. In light of this, we are announcing the deprecation of our Python 2 base images in balenalib. When are…

May 12, 2020 / 1 min

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Local Mode and livepush make balenaCloud app development faster

Editor's Note, 25 March 2021: Edge developers can now access balenaBlocks pre-built containerized services ready to drop into new applications. Check them out on balenaHub. Developing containerized applications can be time-consuming, particularly when they have multiple services and you want to ensure they run properly on different platforms and IoT devices. With balenaCloud Local Mode and…

March 13, 2020 / 7 min

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How to use balenaCloud container contracts in mixed-device environments to fine-tune your fleet

If you’re like most folks running an IoT environment, you have a mix of devices that don’t always support the same services and drivers, despite their common architecture. With balenaCloud container contracts, you can set rules that prevent devices from getting upgrades that make them fail -- and keep your entire fleet healthy. High-level diagram of how container contracts works With balenaCloud…

January 21, 2020 / 5 min

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balenaCloud ESR: Get peace of mind with only two OS updates a year

balenaCloud Extended Support Release process is here We’re excited to announce the Extended Support Release (ESR) line of operating system for Production and Enterprise fleets using balenaCloud. ESR makes it easier for at-scale fleet owners to have a more predictable OS update schedule while ensuring critical security or bug fixes are not missed. Who does ESR affect the most? This new OS release…

December 03, 2019 / 4 min

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Living on the edge with livepush… and other CLI improvements

Here at balena, we understand that the primary users of our platform are engineers. For a long time, the tooling we provided for developers and DevOps engineers wasn’t as user-friendly or cohesive as we’d have liked it to be. So a few months back, we decided to focus on improving the experience when using balenaCloud and balenaOS. Here’s what we did… Introduced Local Mode Created Livepush Added…

June 04, 2019 / 7 min

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All good things come to an end.... (Including balenaOS 1.x)

In the fall of 2016, we released balenaOS 2.0 (then known as resinOS) 2.0 out into the world. Since then we’ve worked hard to incorporate our learnings from the field and continually improve balenaOS. In the last two years, we’ve increased the number of supported device types by over 3x, added the much-anticipated support for running multiple containers on devices, improved filesystem resilience…

April 10, 2019 / 1 min

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Experimental device diagnostics features now available!

Today, we are happy to announce that we are making our internal diagnostics tooling available to balena users. The tools will be accessible by all application Owners as well as Developers. These diagnostics tools contain much of the accumulated knowledge of pathologies and issues that often arise on devices deployed in the wild. We are planning to open-source the underlying scripts shortly, but…

March 28, 2019 / 2 min

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Balena releases 26k new container base images optimized for IoT and Edge Computing

Sometimes combinatorial explosion is your friend. Today we are proud to announce the release of over 26,000 new base images under the balenalib namespace over on DockerHub. Over the last 4 years we've been maintaining and nurturing the most comprehensive set of base images for deploying containers on the edge. We've learned a lot by watching and listening to and supporting our users, such as how…

January 01, 2019 / 5 min