Facebox on BalenaOS

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I am trying to run Facebox (machinebox/facebox) on [balenaOS 2.60.1+rev5] with Raspberry Pi 4 (using 64bit OS) and getting these errors:

18.01.21 19:52:02 (+0100) Restarting service ‘facebox sha256:7e28a04389a6ac2abb255bf0ce1f669ec7fd1f4a0e8815b1981ed32173576e0b’
18.01.21 19:52:02 (+0100) Service exited ‘facebox sha256:7e28a04389a6ac2abb255bf0ce1f669ec7fd1f4a0e8815b1981ed32173576e0b’
18.01.21 19:51:59 (+0100) facebox standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused “exec format error”
18.01.21 19:52:01 (+0100) facebox standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused “exec format error”
18.01.21 19:52:01 (+0100) facebox standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused “exec format error”
18.01.21 19:52:04 (+0100) Service exited ‘facebox sha256:7e28a04389a6ac2abb255bf0ce1f669ec7fd1f4a0e8815b1981ed32173576e0b’
18.01.21 19:52:04 (+0100) Restarting service ‘facebox sha256:7e28a04389a6ac2abb255bf0ce1f669ec7fd1f4a0e8815b1981ed32173576e0b’
18.01.21 19:52:01 (+0100) facebox standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused “exec format error”
18.01.21 19:52:03 (+0100) facebox standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused “exec format error”
18.01.21 19:52:07 (+0100) Service exited ‘facebox sha256:7e28a04389a6ac2abb255bf0ce1f669ec7fd1f4a0e8815b1981ed32173576e0b’
18.01.21 19:52:10 (+0100) Service exited ‘facebox sha256:7e28a04389a6ac2abb255bf0ce1f669ec7fd1f4a0e8815b1981ed32173576e0b’
18.01.21 19:52:10 (+0100) Restarting service ‘facebox sha256:7e28a04389a6ac2abb255bf0ce1f669ec7fd1f4a0e8815b1981ed32173576e0b’

The same image runs without fail on Docker Desktop.
Does anybody have experience running Facebox on Balena?

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Hi Laszlo - this is due to the Raspberry Pi using an Arm (Broadcom) processor, as opposed to the x86 Intel or AMD processor in your laptop or desktop. “Exec format error” means you are running code for the wrong architecture. Looking at https://hub.docker.com/r/machinebox/facebox/tags , it seems that they only support x86 devices (AMD64 in their tag), so unfortunately it won’t work on a Pi, unless there is an Arm port somewhere that I missed. Hope that helps, thanks.