# Power BI on a TV Screen and Digital Signage (2026) | Digital Board

> Put live Power BI reports on digital signage with your own service principal, rotating pages. Or use Publish to web for public data.

Source: https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/power-bi-digital-signage

## How to put a Power BI report on a TV screen

Show the reports your teams already rely on, live, on lobby and office screens. The BI Dashboard widget embeds a Power BI report with your own Entra app, so private data stays private, and it can rotate through report pages on its own.

### How it works

Digital Board uses Power BI’s **App owns data** embedding with your own Entra ID app, a service principal. An organization owner or admin adds the connection once, in **Settings → BI dashboards**, and editors pick a report from it.

- **Credentials stay on the server.** The app secret is encrypted and never sent to a screen.

- **Screens get a view-only token** for one report, which expires within the hour. The screen fetches a new one before it does.

- **Pages rotate.** List the pages you want, or tick **Rotate through all visible pages**, and set how long each one shows.

- **Sandboxed.** Every dashboard page runs with an isolated origin, so the report can’t reach anyone’s Digital Board session.

### Set it up

- **In Entra ID**, register an application and add a client secret. It needs no Microsoft Graph or Power BI API permissions.

- **In the Power BI admin portal**, under Tenant settings → Developer settings, turn on **Service principals can use Fabric APIs** (in older tenants, “Allow service principals to use Power BI APIs”). You can limit it to a security group that contains the app.

- **In each Power BI workspace** whose reports you want on screens, add the app (or that group) as a Viewer or higher.

- **In Digital Board**, open Settings → BI dashboards → Add a connection → Power BI, and enter the tenant ID, the client ID and the secret. **Test** signs in and counts the workspaces the app can see.

- **Add a BI Dashboard widget**, choose the connection, **Browse** for a report, and set page rotation and **Refresh every** if the dataset refreshes on a schedule.

- Put the widget in a playlist and assign it to a screen.

Full details are in [docs/bi-dashboards.md](https://github.com/screentinker/screentinker/blob/main/docs/bi-dashboards.md).

### The no-credentials option: Publish to web

Power BI’s **File → Embed report → Publish to web (public)** gives a link like `https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=...`. Choose **A public link** in the widget and paste it. No connection is needed.

#### Security caveat: Publish to web makes the report public

**“Publish to web” exposes your report and its data to anyone who has the link: no sign-in and no row-level security.** Don’t use it for confidential, personal or financial data. Many organizations turn it off in the Power BI admin portal for exactly this reason. For private reports, use a connection as above.

### Limits

- **Capacity.** Microsoft licenses service-principal embedding for reports in a capacity: an Embedded (A) SKU, Fabric (F) or Premium (P/EM). Outside one, embedding is limited to development and testing.

- **Commercial cloud only.** GCC and sovereign clouds are not supported.

- **Live data needs the network.** The page is cached for offline use, but the report itself needs a connection.

- **Very old TV browsers** may not run the Power BI embedding library. Test one screen first.

- **Test before you roll out.** Reports always run in a sandbox, so check that each one loads on a screen first.

### FAQ

#### How do I put a Power BI report on a TV screen?

Add a Power BI connection in Settings → BI dashboards with your own Entra app, then add a BI Dashboard widget, browse for the report, and put the widget in a playlist for that screen.

#### Do I have to make the report public?

No. With a connection, the screen gets a view-only token for one report that expires within the hour, and the report stays private. Publish to web is only an option for data that is meant to be public.

#### Is there a native Power BI widget?

Yes. The BI Dashboard widget embeds Power BI reports, Tableau views and Grafana dashboards.

#### What licence does Power BI embedding need?

Microsoft licenses service-principal embedding for reports in a capacity: an Embedded (A), Fabric (F) or Premium (P/EM) SKU. Outside a capacity it is limited to development and testing. Publish to web needs no capacity but makes the report public.

#### Can the screen rotate through report pages?

Yes. List the pages you want, or tick Rotate through all visible pages, and set how long each page shows.

### Related

- [Tableau dashboards on digital signage](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/tableau-digital-signage.html)

- [Grafana dashboards on digital signage](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/grafana-digital-signage.html)

- [Microsoft 365: SharePoint, OneDrive and Office files](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/microsoft-365-digital-signage.html)

- [Enterprise digital signage: SSO, roles, audit](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/solutions/enterprise-digital-signage.html)

- [All digital signage integrations](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/)

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