Hardware: Raspberry PI 4 8GB.
Problem: Device not recognised in any network.
I have flashed balenaEtcher-1.7.9 correctly on a 32GB SD card. However the device will not show in any network. I have tested with Fling and IP Scanner on a Mac network and with Fling Angry IP Scanner on a Windows network.
Test: When I install Raspberry Pi OS using Raspberry Pi Imager, the device is working as expected and shows an IP4 address as expected. My conclusion is that the hardware is okay. The BalenaEtcher OS does not support the ethernet port?
Any ideas?
Hi I am curious what you mean by you flashed balenaEtcher? What you should be doing is using balenaEtcher to flash balenaOS that you downloaded from the Balena dashboard, after creating a fleet.
Hi and thanx for your reply. Yes I have downloaded the BalenaEtcher OS and installed this on the Raspberry PI. By flashing it on the SD card. This is done without error message. However with this OS the Device is not recognized in the network (No IP).
The hardware is okay as I have proved by installing Raspberry OS, but this is not what I want.
Dear Phil,
you cannot flash balenaEtcher onto an SD Card, there is no balenaEtcherOS.
You can use balenaEtcher 1.7.9 to flash different OS onto an sdcard, but you cannot flash balenaEtcher itself on an sdcard and expect it to boot.
What you probably want to do is either creating a new fleet in balenaCloud, downloading the correct balenaOS for this fleet and flash it via balenaEtcher - and boot with that sdcard you RPi 4 or get an “empty” balenaOS from balenaOS - Run Docker containers on embedded IoT devices for your RPi (the correct image would be Raspberry Pi 4 (using 64bit OS) / BalenaOS 2.99.27 / aarch64 - maybe development image is best for starting) - then put this into your RPi 4 and boot it. It should get itself an IP address from your netwok and be reachable via SSH over Port 22222 and username root (no password needed)
Maybe you could tell us what you want to achieve and we can help from there 
Hi and thank you for your reply. I’ll have to deep-dive into that material and try to understand what you really mean. But I am afraid this requires too much of IT knowledge from me to work that out in order to solve my problem. What I want to do is to install Umbrel in the Raspberry PI and run a BTC Etherium node. I have expected a simple install. So I follow these instructions which to me appear quite straightforward: Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting. This procedure runs as expected, however the Raspberry PI is not recognized in any network. In order to test if the hardware is okay I have downlowded Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Imager. Once this OS is running the Raspberry PI is recognized as expected. So my conclusion is that the PI is okay, but the instructions: Umbrel — A personal server OS for self-hosting misses a fundemental part which is installing umbrel-os-v0.5.0.img AND install Umbrel OS in de SD card. What I might have done wrong is that I first unpacked Umbrel OS zip file in order to install it while balenaEtcher expects the zip file to unpack it self. Do you have any clue for me? Many thanks in advance! Phill
Hey Phil,
looking at the Git Repo of Umbrel-OS ( GitHub - getumbrel/umbrel-os: Convert a Raspberry Pi 4 into your personal server in one click ). It looks like you have to do following the following:
If this does not work you also have the option to just flash Raspberry Pi OS to your RPi and install Umbrel on top of that following this guide: GitHub - getumbrel/umbrel: A beautiful personal server OS for self-hosting. Install on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Ubuntu/Debian.
However, please bear in mind we are not the Umbrel forum and problems arising from Umbrel OS cannot be answered here - I guess the flashing actually worked out without isseus but there are bugs with the software itself.
Cheers
Hi nmaas87,
I have found your instruction #3 usefull: NOT to unzip the Umbrel OS. I was expection the installation needed the unzipped file, but that does not work. To link to the zip-file did really work well. I want to thank you for your time. Now I am working on my Bitcoin node to get it synced. Are you familiar with that also? Philip
Glad that it worked out
No sorry, I have never run a Bitcoin node, but maybe the guys in the Umbrel forums ( https://community.getumbrel.com/ ) can help you with that.
Cheers