{"kind":"doc","doc":{"title":"Frame Skylight","section":{"slug":"experiments","name":"Experiments"},"rkey":"1789407104000-frame-skylight","cid":"bafkreihsrxhb5xhpsr2d7f2vfyn3y7cbii25mvi5wbxfcibbo2uwzxpboy","renderKey":"bafkreihsrxhb5xhpsr2d7f2vfyn3y7cbii25mvi5wbxfcibbo2uwzxpboy@2026-09-20T05:09:23Z@2026-10-20T04:18:22Z@Experiments|Open source projects and experiments","href":"/experiments/1789407104000-frame-skylight","publishedAt":"2026-09-20T05:09:23Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T04:18:22Z","tags":["skylight-frame","icloud","cloudkit","docker","adb","rooted-android"],"description":"A Docker sync daemon that drives a rooted Skylight Frame from a public iCloud Shared Album, polling CloudKit and reconciling photos and videos over network ADB — no Skylight cloud, no subscription.","readingMinutes":1,"markdown":"[REPO](https://github.com/iammatthias/frame-skylight)\n\nDrive a rooted Skylight Frame from a public iCloud Shared Album — no Skylight cloud, no subscription. A Docker sync daemon polls CloudKit and reconciles photos and videos into the frame over network ADB.\n\n```mermaid\nflowchart LR\naccTitle: Frame sync path\naccDescr: Photos added to a shared iCloud album are picked up by a small sync service at home and copied onto the Skylight frame over the local network.\nphone[\"iPhone\"] --> album[\"Shared album\"]\nalbum -->|checked often| sync[\"Sync daemon\"]\nsync -->|local network| frame[\"Skylight Frame\"]\nsync --> status[\"Health check\"]\n```\nAdding or removing a photo in the album is the whole interface, and the frame catches up on the next check.","media":{},"series":{},"related":[{"title":"Apron","href":"/experiments/1793375787000-apron","section":"experiments","description":"Putting on an Apron.","publishedAt":"2026-10-30T16:12:05Z"},{"title":"Build your own apps","href":"/posts/1791570998502-build-your-own-apps","section":"posts","description":"The apps can be just for you.","publishedAt":"2026-10-30T01:52:18Z"},{"title":"Farfield Theme","href":"/experiments/1793193667000-farfield-theme","section":"experiments","description":"A dark and a light colour theme for terminals and editors. ff-night is the dark one, ff-day is the light one.","publishedAt":"2026-10-29T02:10:05Z"},{"title":"This is your sign","href":"/posts/1793118574479-this-is-your-sign","section":"posts","description":"You can add it with one meta tag.","publishedAt":"2026-10-27T16:30:11Z"},{"title":"Datamosh","href":"/art/1791519648658-datamosh","section":"art","description":"An iOS app","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T04:20:51Z"},{"title":"Own The Means of Cognition","href":"/posts/1789494942000-own-the-means-of-cognition","section":"posts","description":"Own the means of cognition and you don't need a ministry of truth, the modal in everyone's pocket does the job.","publishedAt":"2026-10-02T02:01:14Z"}],"prev":{"title":"Intern","href":"/experiments/1789407081000-intern"},"next":{"title":"Styx","href":"/experiments/1789407119000-styx"}}}