In the readme it states that Open Balena supports a subset of devices: Supported devices: Raspberry Pi family, the Intel NUC, the NVIDIA Jetson TX2, and the balenaFin What is exactly the limitation? Is this just to encourage people using the paid version or is there a technical impediment? Since…

Good question. The device information appears to be stored in the device types table and populated by open-balena-api migrations like src/migrations/00013-add-device-types.sql . The table contains many more devices, and I have seen openBalena expend considerable effort loading the massive contract co…

Just to layer in here - we have included the ability to add and manage custom device types in open-balena-admin . Just be aware that for openbalena to accept apps for this device type, you need to also add a “device type slug” if you are using a more recent version of openbalena (also possible to do …

Got the following answer on the github issue about the same topic: There’s no limitation – in theory openBalena supports the same set of devices balenaCloud does. In practice, we cannot advertise support for all of them because it’s currently impractical to test them all out like we do for balenaC…

I can see how to add a device type, but it does not seem to be working. Maybe i need to add a device type slug first? How to do that?

What is the error you are seeing when trying to add a device type? Device type aliases were not added until open-balena-api v0.185.0, so depending which version you are running you may not see that option in open-balena-admin.

@markdegroot , I’m not sure if you meant you were adding a device-type in the open-balena-admin UI managed by harmoni.io , or if you were adding it to openBalena generally… If the latter, I wanted you to know that we are actually in the process of updating some of our documentation around contributi…

I’ve managed to build the OS and it’s running fine. Now I want to hook up my device to my open-balena instance. When I create my custom device type using open-balena-admin, I’m getting some errors ( will create a github issue for this ), but it seems to create the device type. What would be the corre…

Update: You need to have contracts in place for your custom device in the GitHub - balena-io/contracts: Balena.io Base Contracts repository. However, you can override this using the following env variables in open-balena: CONTRACTS_PUBLIC_REPO_OWNER CONTRACTS_PUBLIC_REPO_NAME CONTRACTS_PUBLIC_RE…

@drcnyc do you think you can help here? :slight_smile:

@mpous Yes! Thanks to @markdegroot I pushed this change yesterday, however this was just to suppress an incorrect error message, as otherwise the device was being created successfully via open-balena-admin. @markdegroot can you clarify what specifically isn’t working after you add the custom device…

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markdegroot June 3, 2022, 3:07pm 17

I’ve made some progress. Will write an update soon™

Which helm chart to use ?

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