Unable to download balena OS using CLI

Product support balenaOS
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My versions:

$ balena --version
11.36.0
$ node --version
v14.4.0

I have found that I can’t download any OSes for raspberrypi4 using the Balena CLI.

Some outputs:

Firstly, downloading using the menu:

$ balena os download raspberrypi4-64 -o pi.img --version menu
Getting device operating system for raspberrypi4-64
? Select the OS version: v2.41.0+rev4.prod
No such version for the device type

Secondly, simply trying to pull down the latest version:

$ balena os download raspberrypi4-64 -o pi.img --version latest
Getting device operating system for raspberrypi4-64
No such version for the device type

Thirdly, trying a different version string:

$ balena os download raspberrypi4-64 -o pi.img --version 2.46  
Getting device operating system for raspberrypi4-64
version.replace is not a function

I am feeling a bit at a loss here; it was hard to find the slug, but if the sane defaults aren’t available for download either, I’m not sure if I can trust the CLI.

The reason I was looking for version 2.46 btw, was to see if I could get an older version to connect to OpenBalena, as I saw in some other thread that there’s issues with balenaOS after version 2.46 when connecting with an openBalena server.

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Hi @ericmjl.
You are right is seems a bit confusing.
OpenBalena does not support image downloads at the moment, and it seems you have to get the images from balena.io/os.
In case you are interested, you can subscribe to this open GH issue and track its progress.

Let me know if you have any further questions about that.
Georgia

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Thanks @georgiats! May I ask, how do I download an older version of balenaOS? For example, I’m looking for 2.46, which seems to be the last supported version that can connect to openBalena.

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Hi there, you can download the latest 2.46 using this link:

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https://api.balena-cloud.com/download?deviceType=raspberrypi4-64&version=2.46.1+rev3.prod&fileType=.zip