Frame Daily Plan

A calm morning planner for the Samsung The Frame. Every morning the family's day appears in Art Mode instead of a painting. Afterwards your artwork comes back.

Code and install guide Quick install

The daily plan in Art Mode: today's events, tomorrow, to-dos, weather and a month calendar — The plan on the Frame (demo data)

What it does

Your calendars

Any iCal feed: Google Calendar, school calendars, a separate to-do calendar. Each one gets a colour.

Weather and holidays

Weather with a "what to wear" hint from Open-Meteo (no key). Public holidays for about 150 countries.

Blends into the room

The plan sits on a blurred copy of the artwork it replaces. Past events turn grey, and nothing is ever cut off.

Never in the way

It never interrupts TV. It only removes images it uploaded itself. No Samsung account, no cloud.

The web page with the setup steps, buttons and a preview — Set up and control everything in a web page (English or German)

A large message on a calm dark background — Show a message, e.g. "Grandma picks you up at 4 pm today"

What you need

A Samsung The Frame on your home network (tested on a 2017 model; newer ones should work, please report)
An always-on machine with Docker, e.g. a Synology NAS (Container Manager), a Raspberry Pi or a home server
Your calendars as iCal links (Google Calendar: "Secret address in iCal format")

Quick install

Put this in a docker-compose.yml (on a Synology: Container Manager → Project → Create), start it, and open http://<your-server>:8765. The page walks you through finding the TV, allowing it, your town and your calendars.

services:
  frame-daily-plan:
    image: ghcr.io/justifytechexpenses/frame-daily-plan:latest
    container_name: frame-daily-plan
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      TZ: Europe/London
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data