Every now and then a release comes along that is less about the list of new buttons and more about where a product is heading. Peakboard Hub 2.3 is one of those. On the surface it brings the usual pile of improvements: lists that can validate their cells against another...
Until now, every Peakboard application needed a place to run: a physical Peakboard Box mounted next to a screen, or a BYOD instance installed on a Windows machine. With Peakboard LINK, this changes. LINK is a new part of Peakboard Hub that hosts and executes a Peakboard application completely in...
The Peakboard Hub Public API is the remote-control layer of the Hub. It lets us read and write lists, send alerts, push variables, trigger Building Block functions on a Box, and more, all from the outside, all over plain HTTPS. We have already covered the basics in this blog: how...
With version 4.2, a long-awaited feature finally came to life: any camera recognized by Windows can now serve as the source for the Video control, whether it is a USB-connected external camera or an integrated one built into the device. Beyond simply displaying the camera feed, which on its own...
Peakboard is designed for applications to run entirely on one physical screen, preferably a touchscreen. This is how a typical Peakboard-backed industrial application operates. However, there may be times when you need to capture or share the screen — or parts of it — beyond the current display. Common use...
With the new version 4.1, released in late 2025, the Peakboard team introduced a new visual control: the Drawing Area. This control allows end users to draw on a touchscreen using their fingers or a pen, depending on the device. It can be used for signing documents, scribbling sketches, or...
Many people have been using Peakboard Hub as a file management system. And with Peakboard version 4.1, you can now use Hub files directly in your Peakboard applications, with the new Hub files data source. This opens the door to a wide array of exciting possibilities! In today’s article, we’re...
The future of SAP is clear: Everything will be cloud based. The age of on-prem SAP systems is over. And when it comes to connecting systems—both SAP and non-SAP—with one another, the best solution is SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform). A big part of SAP BTP is the SAP Integration...
Peakboard Hub is not only for Box-related administration tasks. It’s often used to store data. Whenever data is stored, data analysis is around the corner. That’s our topic for today. We will discuss how to use Power BI to consume data that’s stored inside Peakboard Hub. Before reading this article,...
Welcome to the third part of our Peakboard Hub API series. To learn the basics, like how to get an API key and access token, see our getting started article. A common use case for Peakboard Hub is using the Hub for data storage. That’s why the Hub API has...
With Peakboard Hub Online, it’s easy to connect cloud apps and services to applications that run in a worker’s workplace in a factory. That’s one of the main benefits of connecting Peakboard Boxes to the Hub. In this article, we’ll explain how to use an Azure logic app to build...
A couple of weeks ago, we gave an introduction to the Peakboard Hub API. We also have a guide for using the API to manage lists in Peakboard Hub. This article is all about using the Peakboard Hub API in Python. Let’s get started. Authentication Here’s how to handle Peakboard...
In our first article about the Peakboard Hub API, we discussed how to get an API key, establish a connection to the Hub, and get information about the boxes that are connected to the hub. In today’s article, we will discuss how to call shared, public functions on a box...
Since its official release in 2022, Peakboard Hub has become more and more popular among customers. Initially, it was only designed to be an administration interface for environments with 20+ boxes. Since then, many more functions have been added, and there’s also a SaaS offering for customers who don’t want...
In today’s article, we will learn how to use SQL statements with functions for aggregation and table join, in order to extract data from Peakboard Hub tables. We’ve also covered various topics related to Peakboard Hub lists in other articles (check out the links at the bottom of this page)....
In this article, we will learn how to add a Peakboard Box to Peakboard Hub Online (PBHO). That way, we’ll be able to manage and monitor the Box in PBHO. Here is an overview of the steps we will take: Connect the Box to the cloud. This will allow PBHO...
In this article, we will learn how to use lists in Peakboard Hub Online (PBHO). We will learn how to write data to a list, how to read data from a list, and how to aggregate data from a list. The data we will use is sensor data from an...
Peakboard recently launched Peakboard Hub Online, a SaaS version of Peakboard Hub. Peakboard Hub used to be only available as an on-premises product. But with the launch of Peakboard Hub Online, you can now choose which version you want to use. In this article, we will learn how to get...