pisignage VS Power-BI-Real-Time-Slideshow

If you don't mind a bit of setup and working with RaspberryPi's . . . Checkout PiSignage. There are also some paid options out there like YoDeck.

If you can find a Raspberry Pi to run it on, PiSignage.

@OP, take a look at Pi Signage. As far as the TV goes, they'll all work to a certain extent. If it's not a professional signage display, don't expect full life expectancy

pisignage.com supports a local server. We use their cloud based setup and are happy with it.

Currently running two rPI players using piSignage, which gives you two player licenses for free. Cloud managed and really fast.

I've had a Raspberry Pi (mode 3B+) for a little while now, but last year for work, I looked into digital signage for the Pi platform, and came across piSignage (https://pisignage.com/). This is software you can run from an SD card directly on a Raspberry Pi that will let you upload video files and create playlists to automatically run. The Pi can plug up to an HDMI capable projector and just set to run the playlist over and over again.

https://pisignage.com/ is also another alternative if you have raspberry pis (I use the Pi Zero W). You want to look at the Open source offering https://pisignage.com/homepage/documentation.html#os for the self-hosted version.

Working in a smaller manufacturing environment (100 ish people), I have set up a handful of displays using PiSignage fed with images exported from PowerPoint slides. The Power BI slides we show are non time critical (more along the lines of "how did we do in the last x days") and get updated twice a week.

As you've noticed, this isn't very easy in Power BI. I used to maintain a Chrome autoclicker to attempt this back in the day, but I decided to replace it with a totally new app from the ground up called Displagent.

Not too sure honestly, I'm not sure if it maybe needs a complete page refresh every so often or not. I actually used to maintain a Chrome extension to do this (https://github.com/DMiradakis/Power-BI-Real-Time-Slideshow), and I don't recall my users saying they had an issue like you're describing, but they were on Chrome vs. Edge - not that I would expect that to make a huge difference since Edge is Chromium-powered now... Sorry I can't provide more insight here!

Background: I had the same need and was the maintainer of the forked Chrome extension Power BI Real-TimeSlideshow for several years. It was by far the best extension available for this kind of thing.

Interesting, thanks for the info. This is actually a need I've been contributing to via open source since 2018 (see https://github.com/DMiradakis/Power-BI-Real-Time-Slideshow) but I'm building something from the ground up that is way better. I think it'll be better than both the Chrome tab rotation and refresh extensions as well as the Windows 10 app in the Microsoft Store for a variety of reasons, but I wanted to collect some feedback from users here and see how many people have this need.

I’m still in the building process, but in a nutshell, this application offers extremely composable slideshows for Power BI reports and a superior scheduling system for refreshing Power BI datasets. I think it absolutely beats any alternatives out there, including the Power BI helper app in the Windows store as well as my own forked Power BI Real-Time Slideshow Chrome extension that I built on GitHub!