Converting Raspberry Pi to a MobiusFlow Connector

Hardware Requirements

Raspberry Pi

A Raspberry Pi is required. Currently support Raspberry Pi models include:

• Raspberry Pi 4

• Raspberry Pi 5

An SD card for each Raspberry Pi is also required to store the connector image. We recommend a minimum storage of 16GB.

Transceivers / Interfacing Hardware

Most protocol types require specific hardware to translate that protocol to the Raspberry Pi.

EnOcean

The following transceivers are supported. Only 1 is required per Pi:

Etching SD Image

MobiusFlow Raspberry Pi connectors can offer remote access functionality via BalenaCloud, however this is not required. As such, the hosting options of the connector must be considered.

Hosting Options

MobiusFlow Hosted

The following images can be downloaded for etching:

Self Hosted

The following is an overview of the steps involved:

• Create BalenaCloud Account

• Create BalenaCloud Fleet

• Attach BalenaCloud Fleet to the corresponding MobiusFlow Connector Balena Application

• Add a new device to the fleet and download the subsequent Balena image

• Etch the image

We have a full guide on how to use the BalenaCloud with MobiusFlow itself here. Please note this differs in the context of MobiusFlow Connectors because the BalenaCloud Fleets should be linked to the MobiusFlow Connector BalenaCloud applications instead of the standard MobiusFlow BalenaCloud applications.

Not Hosted

Etching

We recommend using the Balena Etcher tool to etch the images onto an SD Card. The tool is self-explanatory, but full full documentation of how to use the tool can be found here.