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Fugo's Dashboards feature normally works from the cloud: our servers visit your dashboard's URL, sign in, and take a screenshot to display on your screens. That's the right approach for dashboards reachable over the public internet – but some organizations self-host dashboards, reports, or internal tools that are only reachable from inside their own network.

For those, Fugo's On-Premise Dashboards feature lets you run the sign-in-and-screenshot process on a dedicated machine you control, on your own network, instead of in Fugo's cloud. That machine then sends the resulting screenshot up to Fugo, which distributes it to any of your connected players – even ones on a completely different network from the on-premise server itself. No dashboard data or login credentials need to be reachable from the public internet at any point.

If you want to share a dashboard that lives inside a desktop app rather than a browser, that's a separate feature too. See our Local App Casting guide instead.

On a machine that stays on and connected to your network – this is the "server" in on-premise server – download and run the Control Center app from fugo.ai/fop.exe. It installs without asking for any extra configuration, and once it's running, it automatically starts itself whenever the machine boots and prevents the machine from going to sleep, so it stays available to run your dashboard steps on schedule.

Fugo runs as a web-based player application on almost any consumer or professional display or media player device. Install and pair the Fugo player app to your Fugo CMS account by following the instructions for your device in our hardware help center, which covers the Fugo NUC and other Windows or Mac mini PCs, Android media players, Chrome OS devices, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart Signage Platform (SSSP) displays, LG displays, BrightSign players, and Raspberry Pi.

1. Sign in to your Fugo account, click Dashboards in the left-hand navigation, then Add dashboard.

2. On the Dashboard type step, choose the card matching your platform if it has one, or Custom under Not connected if it doesn't. For Custom, Connect Custom opens. Choose Username & password.

In Sign in to Custom, enter the Sign-in page, Email or username and Password. If the account signs in through a provider, choose it under Single sign-on (SSO). If it uses two-factor authentication, add its 2FA secret key. What's a secret key? explains where to find it. To use a passkey, click Register passkey. This needs the Fugo recorder extension. Click Save connection.

3. On the Account step, pick the connection, or click Add another custom connection.

On the Dashboard URL step, enter a Name (it starts as Custom dashboard) and the Dashboard URL.

Click Add dashboard. Fugo will then try to open your dashboard URL, sign in and capture a screenshot of it. While it does this, you can save your dashboard or continue to step 4 to finish the on-premise setup.

4. Open your new dashboard and go to its On premise tab.

5. Turn on Use on-premises server for running steps.

6. Open the Control Center app on your server machine, and copy the following three values into the matching fields in Fugo CMS:

The IP address of your on-premise server itself, on your local network. This is the address your players will send requests to.

Your server's public-facing IP address. Fugo CMS only accepts step and credential requests that come from the Remote IP you've registered here, so an on-premise server can't be impersonated from an unrecognized network address.

An SSH public key that Fugo uses to verify and encrypt communication with your server. Every request between your on-premise server and Fugo's cloud is signed and verified against this key, and any credentials Fugo sends back are encrypted specifically for it, so login credentials are never sent in a form anyone other than your paired server could read.

Once those three fields are filled in and saved, your on-premise server is paired with this dashboard.

7. To show a thumbnail of this dashboard in Fugo CMS, turn on Upload thumbnail to cloud on the dashboard's On premise tab. It's off by default, and it works whether steps run on the player or on your on-premises server. While it's off, the dashboard card in Fugo CMS shows the dashboard app's icon in a frame, with an On-premise tag. While it's on, the card shows the uploaded thumbnail, refreshed at most once an hour, and the dashboard's settings window notes On-prem: may not reflect what's on the screen. Windows players get thumbnail uploads through automatic updates.

With the switch on, a fresh thumbnail is uploaded at most once an hour.

Once your on-premise dashboard has a working screenshot, you have two options for getting it onto a screen:

Go to Playlists, create or open a playlist, select your screen(s), and add your on-premise dashboard from the Dashboards tab when choosing content.

Open Studio, start a new design, and add your dashboard from your saved Dashboards library:

From there you can add your company logo or brand colors, or combine it with other live content such as a clock, local weather or a news ticker, before adding the finished design to a playlist.

Either way, once it's added to a playlist and published, your on-premise dashboard will appear on your connected screens on the same refresh schedule as any other dashboard. Because on-premise and Local Player dashboards don't have to travel through the public internet, they aren't subject to the same daily refresh cap that applies to cloud dashboards on some plans – depending on your plan, an on-premise dashboard can refresh as often as once a minute.

Drop us a message using the chat box in the bottom right of the CMS, or reach our support team at support@fugo.ai.