Better offline experience

Product support balenaOS
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From what I gathered it’s impossible to set a device to be offline, while offline. The commands:

balena env add BALENA_SUPERVISOR_LOCAL_MODE 1 and balena device local-mode --enable

Depend on the device being online. That’s terrible offline DX. Any plans to improve this?

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Hello, There doesn’t appear to be a way to do this at the moment. I’d like to create a github issue in the CLI repo to track this as a feature request. Please could you provide more information on your use case so we capture all relevant info. Thanks for raising this.

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That would be awesome @srlowe, thanks for the quick response.

While completely offline at all times we should be able too:

  1. Burn a preloaded or pre-downloaded development Balena image to a sd card
  2. Boot the device and put it into local-mode
  3. Update the device using balena push (which isn’t working at the moment)

PS.: Noticed the use case yesterday when the Balena APIs were down and I was unable to put a device in local-mode because of that. Our development should never be blocked because of problems in the cloud, that’s terrible developer experience.

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Hi Luandro! Thanks for the details! We have created this Github issue: Allow setting local mode without cloud access · Issue #2424 · balena-io/balena-cli · GitHub