---
title: "Frame Skylight"
section: experiments
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."
tags: ["skylight-frame", "icloud", "cloudkit", "docker", "adb", "rooted-android"]
published: 2026-09-20T05:09:23Z
updated: 2026-09-20T05:09:23Z
cid: bafkreia2upkcpmtldzo3w5fulyybjkexfggw27rf2vvqontauufsqjkvca
html: https://iammatthias.com/experiments/1789407104000-frame-skylight
---

# Frame Skylight

[REPO](https://github.com/iammatthias/frame-skylight)

Drive 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.

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