Balena ssh stops working after reaching free device limit (10)

Thanks for the quick response.
.local won’t work if I want to connect to my device remotely (not locally).
How am I supposed to get the device IP address if I can’t ever connect to it? I’m talking about immediately after initially bringing up the device from a fresh BalenaOS image.

Also, to accomplish this, are the following steps correct:
- need to setup an OpenBalena server