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Power BI Auto Login
AUaero Just checking around the web it appears that you could script something to auto log in, but I'm not going to recommend anything as I've never done it and it deals with areas I'm unfamiliar with. If you can get a process to kick off and log in to Power BI, you can set a particular dashboard as your favorite and that will always show up after log in.. but I'm not aware of being able to navigate to a particular report.
If you have a report page, you could pin the report page to a dashboard and make that your favorite, which might get you close to what you want... no garauntee's though.
AUaero , I am coming to this thread a few years late lol, but I am wondering if your siuation is similar enough to mine to help me out. I am trying to deplpoy Power BI dashboards to my digital signage in a manufactuirng environment, yet every 24 houts my PBI (microsoft account) session times out and demands I resign in. One thing I thought was to force my device to restart every night at 1 am, and upon restarting run this script to login and open the dashboard. What are your thoughts on this?
Furhtermore, I may need a edge browser or LINUX version of the code you shared for PBI open on startup.
Also, I am surprised at the general lack of community support for digital signage applications of Power BI
Anonymous - I'm surprised this is still hard to do 6.5 years after I made this original post!
We actually gave up on trying to do this in a browser for digital signage. We ended up going with a digital signage solution. The nice thing about a solution like this is you can display other content in rotation with your Power BI data. Here are some options:
Power BI Digital Signage | What? Why? How? | TrouDigital
How to Use PowerBI for Digital Signage Dashboards - (reachmedianetwork.com)
Microsoft Power BI on digital signage - valotalive
A couple of cautions, though:
1. A lot of vendors say they can do Power BI integration in digital signage. Some are better than others.
2. You'll probably need to purchase a Power BI embedded capacity or premium capacity to make it work.
One other option if you don't want to use Power BI Embedded is to purchase a Power BI Robots license. PBI Robots can create a screenshot of a report on a defined schedule and delivier that report to sharepoint, network share, etc. There are a lot more digital signage solutions that can display an image from a file share than there are that can sucessfully integrate live Power BI.
11 Options for Open Source Digital Signage (digitalsignagehub.org)
PowerBI Robots (powerbitiles.com)
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the response. I had a feeling that a digital signage provider was going to be the best option going forward. I will look through the articles you mentioned... the one we are considering right now is ScreenCloud, which looks like its PBI integration is legit.
The power BI Robots idea is certainly novel to me, I would be a little concerned with how it may work with my refresh frequency demands (once every two minutes)... but I will check it out. Thanks again.