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Deploy FlowFuse Device Agent with InfluxDB on balena

The documentation for the FlowFuse Device Agent can be found here

Configure

The FlowFuse Device Agent can be configured in 2 ways:

1. Using a "Device Configuration": A Device Configuration is provided when a Device is created in the FlowFuse platform. This configuration can be set in the Belena device using the FF_DEVICE_YML environment variable (see below)
2. Using a "Device Provisioning Configuration". A Device Provisioning Configuration is provided when a Provisioning Token is generated on the FlowFuse platform. This can be used to permit the Device Agent to connect to the FlowFuse platform and auto register itself as a new device. It will then download and store it's own unique Device Configuration. This Provisioning Configuration can be set in the Belena device using the FF_DEVICE_YML environment variable (see below). Provisioning tokens are created on the FlowFuse platform in "Team Settings" under the "Devices" tab. When using a Provisioning Token the Belena Device name will match the FlowFuse Device name.

Passing configuration via Environment variable

Download either a Device configuration file or a Provisioning token and then Base64 encode this (with no line breaks) using the following command:

base64 -w 0 device.yml

In the Balena Fleet config set a Variable called FF_DEVICE_YML to the output of the base64 command, this can either be on a per device basis for option 1 or fleet wide variable for option 2.