communityfirst/balena-interface repository overview

⁠Balena Starter Interface

A community-built device interface for using balena devices. It can be used to interact with your device, or as a starter project to create your own interface.

See the Quick Start guide in the documentation⁠ for details on how to quickly add this project as an interface to your existing projects, or the Developing Locally⁠ guide on how to develop your own interface.

Core features include:

• Ability to customise the visible components and add directly to your existing projects
• Online and offline compatibility
• Customisable Electron and Progressive Web applications for interaction with your devices
• Pre-built endpoints for interacting with the Balena SDK or Supervisor
• Connect your device to nearby Wi-Fi networks
• Container manager (list, stop, start, restart)
• File manager (create folders, upload, delete, etc...)
• Set, edit and remove environment variables on the device
• Configure the device hostname
• Configure the device SSID and password
• Captive portal
• Automatic mounting of USB devices into the File Manager
• System info and stats
• I18n language translations

Electron App:

⁠Fork modification

• Captive-portal as application that redirects to a set url or port
• Balena starter interface runs on a separate express app on port 8079
• A seperate page for connecting to WiFi
• Design tweaks for better responsiveness
• Connect to password-less network

⁠Documentation

Configuration instructions and use of the UI can be found in the documentation⁠.

⁠See for yourself

See the components for yourself with a one-click install: