pi does not boot

@CoDooku
The balenaOS releases on the website do not connect directly to balenaCloud.
They are meant for quick access and working with it for development or usage with openBalena - and they are generic (they cannot know what fleet they would need to contact :slight_smile: )

I think you would need to create a fleet in balenaCloud, download balena CLI - login to your fleet with balena CLI and then register your RPi to your fleet ( balena CLI Documentation - Balena Documentation )

However, it might be more easy to just download the already preconfigured image from balenaCloud within your fleet.

I admit the 2 GB Micro SD Card seems a bit off. I don’t want to be rude here, but there are a lot of fake micro sd cards from Aliexpress and similar going around which are printed to be some size - but actually only some 100 MB or such. So if you starting writing them, you get errors. Also, even if the 2 GB Card would be real, the size would not leave much space anymore for Apps, I would go with at least 4 GB or even 8 GB - and with Sandisk or Samsung Micro SD Cards, especially the Samsung Evo Plus never let me down once. I am fairly sure that the source of your problems was the sd card :frowning:

Cheers!

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Thanks a lot for patiance!

The last off-topic question. Does the docker image for balena cloud exist? Or another way to deploy on fleet?

I am not sure if I completly understand your question - but balenaCloud itself is a service by balena and not given to the public. There is a open source alternative by them called openBalena, which is essentially the same functionality balenaCloud has - so that you can run it yourself on your network, however without any graphical overviews and tooling - command line only: openbalena - Open-source software to manage connected IoT devices

Its currently in beta testing and maybe not for everyone - also you cannot host this on a Raspberry Pi or similar, as it needs quite a lot of different services (think fleet builders etc.) which need a lot of “horse power” - so you need an own server for that.

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