Category: Organisation & Administration

July 23, 2025 • 2 mins read

Peakboard for the People — The Community Edition is Finally Here

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Peakboard has become the ultimate data visualization platform for industrial workplaces. Peakboard connects to a wide variety of data sources and offers fast and simple application development. But until now, not many individual users have tried the Peakboard platform—because its price point was higher than free alternatives like Node-RED and...

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April 10, 2025 • 4 mins read

PowerShell and Remote Desktop Connection - How to really dismantle a Peakboard box

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The Peakboard Box is designed to start working as soon as you take it out of the box and connect it to power and a network. The Peakboard runtime is designed to run securely on the Peakboard Box’s hardware. All non-essential software components are switched off or put into hibernation....

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October 01, 2024 • 3 mins read

The Ultimate Guide to Building an Enterprise Template for Peakboard Applications

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Building a Peakboard application is easy and straightforward. But usually, as the scope increases, people from different parts of the company start getting involved—different departments and geographical locations. In this case, there are some best practices and patterns for enterprise to consider. In this article, we’ll discuss how to build...

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November 06, 2023 • 3 mins read

Wake me up before you go - Two cool ways to use Wake-On-Lan to boot a Peakboard Box

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In last week’s article, we learned how to shut down a Peakboard Box. In this article, we will learn how to use Wake-on-Lan (WoL) to boot a Peakboard Box remotely. There are two different methods for doing so. MagicPacket The first method is to use the tool MagicPacket. Microsoft provides...

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October 29, 2023 • 3 mins read

Bed time stories - Three ways to shut down a Peakboard Box remotely

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We often see Peakboard Boxes hanging overhead in large factory halls or warehouses. But there’s no need for the boxes to run 24/7. You should turn them off when you don’t need them. In this article, we cover three cool ways to shut down a Peakboard box without pulling the...

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October 19, 2023 • 5 mins read

Peakboard BYOD - The beginner's guide to BYOD setup

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For years, the physical, black box has been the definitive symbol for Peakboard. But by the end of 2023, Peakboard will offer a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) edition. In this article, we will learn how to use our own device as a standalone runtime instance for Peakboard BYOD. To download the binaries,...

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January 28, 2023 • 3 mins read

How to manage and organise team access for Peakboard boxes in large organisations

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How do you manage and organise Peakboard boxes throughout a large organsation, across different teams of content creators, technical admins, and physical locations? Of course, you don’t want to send out box credentials to all stakeholders. This article is here to help you understand some basic concepts in using Peakboard...

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