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Introducing the New Era of Balena Support

We are pleased to announce that our new and improved balena support system will go live during the weekend of 6th/7th January 2024. Our aim is to increase control and flexibility, offering an even more seamless and efficient support experience, and to ensure our customers receive timely and…

December 21, 2023 / 4 min

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Balena supports NXP i.MX9, the Compulab UCM-iMX93

December 15, 2023 / 5 min

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Meet Balena at the Open Source Summit Japan 2023

December 01, 2023 / 2 min

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Balena Update

November 13, 2023 / 4 min

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Barcelona’s 2nd Mini-Meet: Bridging the gap between balena and the community

October 30, 2023 / 3 min

Convert your Industrial deployment into an Industrial Data Architecture Managed with MQTT Sparkplug, Ignition, HiveMQ and balena

In this blog post we scale an industrial data reference architecture for deploying an Industrial IoT edge gateway running balena, Ignition Edge and hiveMQ in multiple plant-flors distributed all around the world.

October 20, 2023 / 13 min

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Raspberry Pi 5 available now on balenaOS

Today Raspberry Pi announced the new Raspberry Pi 5 which is compatible with balenaOS from day one.

September 28, 2023 / 3 min

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balena EtcherPro Saves Jeff Geerling's Life (not literally)

Learn how Jeff Geerling flashed dozens of SD cards for a project for Mr Beast.

September 20, 2023 / 2 min

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Comparing performance of Jetson GPUs on balena

Compare real-world performance of various Jetson devices on balena.

September 06, 2023 / 5 min

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See and hug other humans: Mini meets for remote teams!

Plan and run your own mini remote team gathering, for fun and hugs and food and drinks.

August 25, 2023 / 10 min

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OpenTelemetry for IoT Metrics

Exploration of OpenTelemetry for flexible IoT device metrics, and a block you can try.

August 13, 2023 / 4 min

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What's New in Version 13 of Balena Python SDK

New functionalities and breaking changes on Balena Python SDK

June 28, 2023 / 12 min

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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.

March 01, 2023 / 5 min

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How to use an external AWS S3 provider for openbalena

Learn how to connect an external AWS S3 provider to your openbalena or balenaCloud fleet, instead of the stock Minio S3 container.

June 01, 2022 / 7 min

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Raydiant: The Success Story of Digital Signage Using balena

Raydiant is the leading in-location Experience Operating System, which offers digital signage solutions for physical businesses. They rely on balena to manage and update their devices, ensuring security and performance. This case study delves deeper into Raydiant's experience with balena, exploring aspects such as security, hardware and software interaction, cost savings, customer support, and…

June 15, 2023 / 3 min