balenaBlocks built for balenaCloud
balenaBlocks are pre-built container images which developers can add to their multicontainer apps to provide useful functionality. Their aim is to reduce the friction of creating IoT applications which enables rapid prototyping and development. These intelligent, drop-in chunks of functionality are built to handle the basics, allows you as developers to focus on solving the hard problems. You can read more about balenaBlocks on our blog.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| browser | A drop-in web browser block |
| balena-node-red | a node-red application with balena-supervisor support, can be managed remotely via balena publicURL |
| electron | Provides handy functionality for running electron apps in kiosk mode; wifi config, file picker, on-screen keyboard and removable drive management. |
| audio | Audio building block, based on pulseaudio. |
| dashboard | Grafana dashboard block with auto-visualization of InfluxDB databases to get your data visualized instantly! |
| wifi-connect | Easy WiFi setup for Linux devices from your mobile phone or laptop |
| bluetooth | Optimized bluetooth agent for balenaOS. Based on BlueZ 5.0. |
| connector | Auto-configured data connector block based on Telegraf |
| fbcp | fbcp driver for SPI based displays for Raspberry Pis via fbcp-ili9341 |
| sensor | Auto-detects connected i2c sensors and published data on HTTP or MQTT. |
| fin | The fin block is a balenaBlock that provides flashing utilities, status tagging, sleep control and firmata control functionality of the balenaFin. |
| multiroom | Set up multiroom audio for your fleet of devices. Uses the Snapcast audio player. |
| pulse | A block for counting pulses on a Raspberry Pi GPIO pin. |
| log2screen | |
| dbus | |
| xserver | A simple X11 server block |
| local-ui | A local web UI to gain visibility into the device |
| photo-gallery | Display a photo slideshow on a webpage over a web server. |
| template | Template for building/testing/releasing balenablocks. Example provides a NodeJS express template but can be used for any self-publishing blocks. |
| browsercontrol | |
| hostname | Utility block to set a device's hostname in balenaOS |
| librosa-aarch64 | A block for using Librosa on aarch64 architecture devices. |
| balenaBlocks | balenaBlocks explanation, discussion and issues. |
| .github |
To find the complete list of blocks to try and deploy, head to balenaHub!