I’m going through the “Deploying edge with resin.io ” and got as far as getting the OS loaded on my Pi, and it shows up in the Balena device dashboard, but I’m a bit confused on how to load the losane edge agen. Do I just enter the device console and executo docker commands, or do I need to set up do…

You generally don’t have to interface directly with Docker when using Balena ( resin.io ). You will have to create a Dockerfile and then use git to push that to the repo that Balena created for you. I might recommending going through Balena’s entire getting started guide , which does include detailed s…

Is there a walkthru on using the Balena Cloud to install the edge agent on a Raspberry Pi? Your site has a tutorial for a Pi with Ubuntu which I can follow. I also can deploy things using the Balena get started guide (I did on 2 devices). Your answer above hints at a way to do it, but I must be u…

David, did you take a look at our blog article about that: https://www.losant.com/blog/deploying-edge-workflows-with-losant-edge-compute-and-resin.io ? It is from before Resin changed their name to Balena, but the concepts should still be relevant.

Ah, yes thanks. It contains another tidbit/clue…the Docker edge agent download. So close now…

Lars, did you ever get this working? I am in the exact same situation. There is never a complete tutorial with all steps. It’s always “go check out company x’s tutorial, but you won’t need all the info and we will not tell you what specifically to do”. I got Docker on a PC to work with the Losan…

No worries. I just now got it deployed. I suppose my rant cleared my brain. On to the next frustration…

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I did get it to work, but haven’t used it in a while.

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