Power BI in digital signage

Hi,

I would like to correct the previous information as Valotalive has had full native integration with Microsoft Power BI since 2018.

This award-nominated integration allows you to display your Power BI Reports and Dashboards securely With Valotalive Workplace Digital Signage. You can also leverage filters in your reports to go from a high-level report towards more detailed information to serve your target audience better.

 You can find further information in these blogs that cover the topics in more detail:

https://www.valota.live/single-post/2018/05/15/How-to-share-your-Power-BI-dashboards-on-info-screens

https://www.valota.live/single-post/2019/11/06/How-to-leverage-filters-when-using-Power-BI-on-Digital-Signage

 Thanks

Dear,

I am interested in knowing more about your solution and company, please advise.

Regards,

Adel

Hi Adel,

In case this is still relevant you might like to check this link: https://www.valota.live/microsoft-power-bi We might have a solution for you. I'm happy to help with any questions you might have. Br, Kaijus

Thought I would come back with the solution we have started to run at my company. Is working really well on about five different computers now. Never needs a restart. Refreshes BI dashboard pages every 5 minutes.

It is a Powershell script that opens a browser window and just cycles through the dashboards.

1.    place the .ps1 file on the Desktop
2.    place the .cmd file in the startup folder (in Win 10  = win + r and type shell:startup to open startup folder)
Ths script will open an ie window cycling through PowerBI dashboards every 10 mins

biscreencycle2.ps1 =

[CmdletBinding()] 

$source = @" 
using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Text; 
using System.Threading.Tasks; 
using System.Runtime.InteropServices; 
using System.Windows.Forms; 
namespace KeyboardSend 
{ 
    public class KeyboardSend 
    { 
        [DllImport("user32.dll")] 
        public static extern void keybd_event(byte bVk, byte bScan, int dwFlags, int dwExtraInfo); 
        private const int KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY = 1; 
        private const int KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = 2; 
        public static void KeyDown(Keys vKey) 
        { 
            keybd_event((byte)vKey, 0, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0); 
        } 
        public static void KeyUp(Keys vKey) 
        { 
            keybd_event((byte)vKey, 0, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY | KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0); 
        } 
    } 
} 
"@ 
 
Add-Type -TypeDefinition $source -ReferencedAssemblies "System.Windows.Forms" 
 
#----------------------------------------------------------[Functions]---------------------------------------------------------- 
 
Function FullScreen () 
{ 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyDown("LWin") 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyDown("LShiftKey") 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyDown("Return") 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyUp("LWin") 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyUp("LShiftKey") 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyUp("Return") 
} 

Function CloseTab () 
{ 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyDown("LControlKey") 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyDown("F4") 
	[KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyUp("LControlKey") 
    [KeyboardSend.KeyboardSend]::KeyUp("F4")
}
 
#---------------------------------------------------------[Execution]-------------------------------------------------------- 
$errorActionPreference = "stop"

#Dashboards for user
$urls = @(
	"BI dashboard link1",
	"BI dashboard link2",
	"BI dashboard link3",
	"BI dashboard link4")

# time to display each screen 
$sleepSec = 600
$urlIndex = 0

# Start the app 
start microsoft-edge:$urls[0]
 
# Wait and send key stroke  
sleep 2 
FullScreen

while($true)
{
    CloseTab
    $url = $urls[$urlIndex]
	start microsoft-edge:$url
	start-sleep -s $sleepSec

	$urlIndex = ($urlIndex + 1) % $urls.length
}

BiScreenCycle.cmd

PowerShell -Command "Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted" >> "%TEMP%\StartupLog.txt" 2>&1
PowerShell -WindowStyle Hidden C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\BiScreenCycle2.ps1 >> "%TEMP%\StartupLog.txt" 2>&1

I think one of the conditions is that the browser (edge) needs to have the credentials of the user saved.
Make sure to replace the BI Dashboard links with what you want to look at.

elliotdixon That's pretty nice.  I may use that for a case where we need to rotate through between some vendor-specific screens.  

DisplayMonkey has been a great signage solution for us.  We use it to manage about 20 screens in multiple office locations with a variety of reports, and it has run very smoothly for over a year.  

Hi, NowSignage are the only digital signage platform on the market that has a full integration with Microsoft PowerBI, allowing you to display your private reports securely. There are other solutions out there that enable you to display a link once it has been made publicly available which is clearly unacceptable when you're wanting to display private confidential data.

For more information please read: https://www.nowsignage.com/blog/2019/09/how-to-display-microsoft-power-bi-reports-on-a-screen-securely

If anyone would like a trial then please let me know 🙂