A common issue we hear of often is regarding the software mysteriously uninstalling itself. The VuePilot software does not uninstall itself, this is happening as a result of an automatic VuePilot upgrade and the security software or the anti virus software on your machine is detecting the upgrade as some sort of malicious activity which […]

A common question we often get from customers is why their Power BI Reports & Dashboards are loading so slowly. It’s a simple answer:  You are using an under powered device to run the VuePilot software.  If the slow rendering times are bothering you you will need to upgrade to a more power device. Why? […]

The VuePilot CLI allows you to programmatically control your VuePilot players and the content displayed on your screens using a terminal or automated process. Trigger apps, notifications and send remote commands to your VuePilot controlled screens from the command line using scripts or shell commands triggered by build pipelines, system events or other automated processes. […]

If you are seeing an issue where by your website normally has a white background although within VuePilot it is showing a black background and you are unable to read it, this is because your website does not specify a background colour, and so its background is transparent. The VuePilot software has a black background […]

You can display video and images from DropBox on screens in your business using the standard VuePilot apps, you simply need to use the direct or “download” links to the resource. By default, when you copy a “share” link from the Dropbox dashboard it will copy a URL to a web page that embeds that […]

A common use case we often hear of is customers wanting to display PowerPoint slides on TV screens in their business.  This is possible to do by using our Office 365 app and following the instructions found here however this approach comes with a number of issues, mostly to do with using the Microsoft Office […]

When displaying Power Point slides to display on screen, it’s common you may wish to have the slides automatically progress to the next slide after a few seconds. This is called “Auto Advance” although this is not something that can be controlled by VuePilot directly instead this is a setting that must be configured within […]

VuePilot is a highly optimized piece of software. It is designed cache images, source code and videos locally in as many places as it can in order to speed up load times, combat slow and patchy internet and to continue displaying content on screens in your business even when your internet drops out completely. Sometimes […]

You can display your Microsoft Office 365 documents, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations on TV screens in your office by using the VuePilot Office 365 app. By using the Office 365 app and not manually uploading a copy of the document to our servers we can display a real time version of your documents directly from […]

The VuePilot Microsoft Power BI app is based around the standard Power BI embedding functionality that Microsoft provides.  VuePilot does not require you to store credentials or private company details within our database, instead it will simply embed your report or dashboard into a portable app which can then be distributed and displayed around your […]