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Power BI in digital signage
Advocate IIIIt widely depends on what you want to show on your signage.
Is PowerBI the only service you want to show on your display?
We have multiple screens setup in our office and they are all connected up to one PC (Windows 10) via a splitter. You can have PowerBI open up on Google Chrome with an automatic refresh on a timer (Chrome Plugin: Auto Refresh) with a program called "AutoIT AnalogX AutoTab - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/System/autotab/Freeware.htm" that switches windows open on your desktop on a timer.
You can also make PowerBI open reports in a "Windowless scheme" by adding ?Chromeless=1 at the end of your URL.
In my experiance, I've never found decent Digital Signage software that does what we want it to. We have always used a "Windows" solution.
It is likely that we will want to rotate different Power BI dashboards and potentially have other content. The signage solutions we've seen have the right kind of functionality, however none of them can pass authentication to a web page which is the challenge.
- jameslo30
It depends on what your company is using for it's authentication method and the software you are using.
That's where the complication ended when we just used a standard browser to show this information. Is there a possibility for you to use something like Chrome to access the data you want?
With embed signage you can show Power BI dashboards (securely authenticated - not public URLs) mixed with other content in playlists. Maybe it's suitable for your needs? Take a look here: https://embedsignage.com/features/widgets/power-bi/
