BB Industrial Edge Controllers

The Brainboxes BB range — anchored by the BB-400 NeuronEdge — is the industrial edge-controller line. Browse the full range of Brainboxes industrial edge controllers on our main site.

Discover BB devices with BB-Eco

BB-Eco discovers BB-400 controllers via SSDP and mDNS, alongside ED, ES, and SW devices in a unified dashboard. The BB family runs Linux; firmware upgrades through BB-Eco's package-manager integration are on the roadmap.

Tutorials

In-folder quick start, configuration walkthroughs, and worked examples:

📄️ BB-400 Quick Start Guide

Quick start guide for the Brainboxes BB-400 NeuronEdge industrial controller with digital I/O, serial port, Wi-Fi, and Raspberry Pi Compute Module

🗃️ Getting Started

11 items

🗃️ Cloud Services

6 items

🗃️ Serial Port

3 items

🗃️ Digital I/O

8 items

How-to guides

Configuration

• BB-400 initial configuration
• BB-400 system administration
• BB-400 networking tab
• BB-400 Wi-Fi configuration
• BB-400 serial port configuration
• BB-400 digital I/O configuration
• Update the BB CLI configuration file

Installation

• BB-400 installation guide

Firmware

• How do I update the BB-400?
• Flash a BB-400 with the default image
• Flash a BB-400 with the default image (Stretch)

Backup and restore

• Create a full backup image of your OS and setup
• Restore a backup image to BB-400 OS
• Mount the BB-400 to a PC

Drivers

• Where can I find the latest BB-400 NeuronEdge driver?

Troubleshooting

• BB-400 troubleshooting
• How do I reset the BB-400?

Reference

• BB-400 release notes — January 2020 update
• BB-400 release notes — June 2019 update
• BB-Eco CLI reference — command-line tool for BB-Eco operations against BB devices

Software

• BB-Eco — cross-platform discovery and management for the BB range
• Node-RED — visual flow programming used widely on the BB-400