Jetson Nano 2gb not showing up on Dashboard

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Sorry for the delay @AlexandreLeboucher, but I sorted this out. Here are the steps I took to get my Jetson online with balenaCloud:

VM Setup:

  1. Create VM, using Ubuntu 18.04 image.
sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils git build-essential curl dirmngr apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -

sudo apt-get install nodejs

git clone https://github.com/balena-os/jetson-flash.git

cd jetson-flash

npm install

  1. Launch Firefox, login to balenaCloud, click on your Fleet, Add Device, download balenaOS. (I chose Development version, 2.88)

  2. After Download completes, open the Downloads folder using the file manager utility, right click on the file, and choose “Extract Here” to uncompress the .img file.

  3. Power off the VM

  4. Go to the VM Settings, Ports, USB, and add a USB pass-through filter by clicking the first button which has a blue circle (which means “add everything” functionality…I also added the Nvidia device on a subsequent boot, just to be safe.)

  5. Power on the VM again.

Hardware Setup:

  1. Power off board, Disconnect USB from microUSB port.
  2. Make sure jumper is in place for Recovery Mode.
  3. Plug in power barrel, wait 5 seconds.
  4. With power still on, disconnect the Recovery jumper.
  5. Plug in MicroUSB and connect to laptop

Back in VM:

cd jetson-flash
./bin/cmd.js -f /home/<username>/Downloads/balenaCloud-xxxxxxx.img -m jetson-nano-qspi-sd

After a few minutes your Nano should now come online in balenaCloud (note, the Nano’s do not have on-board WiFi, you have to use a USB WiFi adapter, not all of which are supported…or just plug into ethernet.)

Hope that helps!

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