# balenaOS and Banana Pi BPI-M5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Product support\ **Created:** [March 9, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaos-and-banana-pi-bpi-m5/367097 "2023-03-09T14:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xdiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a88e57/32.png) [@xdiv](https://forums.balena.io/u/xdiv)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaos-and-banana-pi-bpi-m5/367097/1 "2023-03-09T14:04:03Z")
Hey. Today I tried getting my BPI-M5 to run on my Balena cloud, but with no success. There is support for the M1+ but I can’t get the M5 to boot. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/balena/original/2X/2/24b773cf31a9fc73802fe68f9b0e281a666def96.png) I also tried a Generic AARCH64 image, but to no avail. Did anyone successfully get the M5 to run as a Balena device? The prices and availability for comparable Raspberry Pis are simply unacceptable at this point… so it would be nice to have a powerful and relatively cheap alternative. ---
**Author:** ![the-real-kenna](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/the-real-kenna/32/9598_2.png) [@the-real-kenna](https://forums.balena.io/u/the-real-kenna)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaos-and-banana-pi-bpi-m5/367097/3 "2023-05-24T05:52:33Z")
Hi @xdiv, We haven’t created compatibility with the M5. The M1+ was created by customer demand, so it might be helpful if you could tell us the size of project it’s meant to be used for? If it’s for a smaller project, you might consider some of our other RPi4 alternative devices, in particular: - PINE64 ROCKPro64: [ROCKPro64 | PINE64](https://www.pine64.org/rockpro64/) - Radxa ROCK 4B: [Rock Pi 4 - the next generation RPI.](https://rockpi.org/rockpi4) Otherwise, the full list of hardware we support can be found here: [devices](https://www.balena.io/devices)