hm-diag is a small website that displays diagnostic information about a hotspot. The website is only accessible if you are on the same network as the hotspot. Some people have exposed their devices publicly but this is not generally advised.
Find the IP address of the hotspot using Balena's dashboard or network scanner.
The website is available on port 80 so you can simply input the hotspot's
IP address in the browser.
As part of the code the system produces a JSON file which then is used to carry the data over easily to other parts of the system.
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| AN | The Animal Name of the miner |
| APPNAME | The name advertised on BTLE |
| BA | Balena Application Name |
| BCH | Current blockchain height |
| BN | Balena Name, used to identify on balena |
| BSP | Sync percentage |
| BT | If the bluetooth module is detected |
| BUTTON | The GPIO pin of the button on the miner |
| CELLULAR | Whether the device has optional cellular capability |
| E0 | MAC Address of the ETH0 interface |
| ECC | If the ECC Key is detected over I2C |
| ECCOB | If the miner should have an ECC chip on board |
| FR | The hardware frequency |
| FRIENDLY | The Friendly name of the hotspot |
| FW | Firmware running on the unit |
| ID | Balena UUID |
| LOR | If a fault has been found with the LoRa Module |
| LTE | If the LTE Module is detected |
| MAC | Which mac address to print on labels in production |
| MC | If the miner is connected to the Helium Network |
| MD | If the miner is "Dialable" on the network |
| MH | The sync height of the miner |
| MN | NAT Type of the miner |
| MR | Whether the miner is relayed or not |
| MS | If miner is synced within 500 blocks |
| OK | The onboarding key of the miner |
| PF | If overall diagnostics have passed |
| PK | The public key of the miner |
| RE | The detected region plan from the miner (or override) |
| RESET | The reset pin to use for the LoRa Module |
| serial_number | The serial number of the onboard Raspberry Pi or other SBC |
| SPIBUS | The SPI Bus to use for the LoRa Module |
| STATUS | The GPIO Pin of the status LED |
| TYPE | If it is a Full or Light Hotspot |
| VA | ID of the hardware variant |
| W0 | Mac Address of the WLAN0 interface |
| last_updated | When this JSON was last updated (UTC timezone) |
| firmware_short_hash | The related commit short hash of currently running firmware |
Because the stack is tightly intertwined with Balena, the easiest way to test the code base on your own Raspberry Pi in your own Balena project.
- Create a new Balena application (in a personal org):
- Default device type:
Raspberry Pi 3 (using 64 bit OS) - Application type:
Starter
- Default device type:
- Add a device:
- Select newest version
- Development (required for local mode)
- Click
Download Balena OS
- Use Etcher to flash the downloaded image
- Insert flash drive into the Raspberry Pi and boot (don't forget to plugin ethernet if necessary)
- Set env vars for the application in Balena:
FREQ: 868, 915, etc.VARIANT: Choose from here
- Deploy changes to:
- All devices in application:
balena push BALENA_APPLICATION - Single device in local mode:
balena push UUID.local(this will build on the device and )
- All devices in application:
If you are on the same network as the Raspberry Pi, enter LOCAL IP ADDRESS from Balena into the browser.
poetry install --with dev
poetry run pytest --cov=hw_diag --cov=bigquery --cov-fail-under=80
poetry run ruff check hw_diag
This is no longer the recommended way of doing Balena deployments.
- Add the remote Balena repo:
git remote add balena BALENA_USERNAME@git.balena-cloud.com:BALENA_USERNAME/BALENA_PROJECT.git - Deploy changes:
git push balena YourLocalBranch:master
Balena will generate a public URL for a device if PUBLIC DEVICE URL is toggled from the Balena device dashboard. This is not generally recommended, except for debugging.
This repo automatically builds docker containers and uploads them to two repositories for easy access:
The images are tagged using the docker long and short commit SHAs for that release. The current version deployed to miners can be found in the helium-miner-software repo.
Helium network is transitioning to light hotspot mode. During the transition, there is a possibility of hotspot going back and forth between light and full blockchain sync mode. We support a environment variable (DISPLAY_MINER_INFO) to disable showing blockchain mining information so that administrators can enable/disable its visibility to avoid confusion among their customers.
The envvar default to false. If set and set to anything other than true, following mining information will be hidden:
- Sync Percentage
- Miner Connected To Blockchain
- Height Status
- Miner Relayed
This is a temporary capability that will be removed when hotspots moves to gateway-rs. Instead validator information will be shown.