Displaying PowerBI on TVs

[matthewcornish5]

Hi All

I know others have done this so its def possible, but can I get the **bleep** thing to work.

What I Want:

Display a power bi app on a tv that scrolls through the pages after 30secs

What I have In Place:

A dumb TV hooked up to a mini desktop running PowerPoint with each page on its own slide using the native PowerBI connector

Whats The Problem:

Within an hour pages will start showing errors on the visuals stating it couldn't get the data. Reloading it fixes it or loading it on my desktop is fine. For pages that don't show errors, the will eventually freeze and stop updating. The report updates every 5sec (direct query with page refresh set to 5sec) showing operational stats for our business.

[DavidCousins]

Install the Windows 10 App (not Power BI desktop) and use the slideshow feature to rotate pages from the report. It can only do one report however.

[collinq]

Hi @matthewcornish5 ,

I doubt that the problem is the tv as the tv is just the "dumb display" as you state.  So, the real question is as to why the mini pc stops updating.  Is there something else running on the pc that might affect this - a screensaver or an automatic cache reset or the userid being used has a token refresh or some other connection item that causes it to stop refreshing?

Also, is WebView 2 installed? (Troubleshoot the Power BI add-in for PowerPoint - Power BI | Microsoft Learn)

[matthewcornish5]

Nope. I have tried multiple different methods/machines, all eventually stop updating at some point

[bastostiago]

Hi @matthewcornish5 ,

I would recommend trying the service Power BI Slider. You just have to log in with your Microsoft Power BI account. The platform will load your workspaces and reports, and finally, you will be able to set up a presentation for your report.

Regarding "stop updating" you mentioned, you will be able to set up a schedule to check for data changes in the dataset.

It is really useful and requires minimal configuration.