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How to show your Fridge Door meal plan and calendar on a Skylight or Hearth

Already have a Skylight or Hearth on the wall? Keep it. Plan your meals and run the family calendar in Fridge Door, and one calendar link puts each day's meals and your family's events on the display, updated whenever you change them.

What you'll see on the display

• Each day's meals as all-day events, such as "Dinner: Spaghetti Bolognese".
• Your family's own events from Fridge Door's calendar, with their times.
• Calendars you follow in Fridge Door (a work or school calendar, say) aren't included, because the display can usually follow those itself.

It works one way: changes made in Fridge Door appear on the display, but anything added on the display stays there.

Step 1: copy your Fridge Door calendar link

1. In Fridge Door, open Settings › Household.
2. Scroll to Family calendar link and tap the copy button beside the link.

Anyone with the link can see your meals and events, so share it only with the family. If it ever gets out, choose Make a new link there and add the new one to the display.

Step 2 on a Skylight

Use the Skylight app on your phone or computer, not the screen itself:

1. Open the Skylight app and tap the My Skylight menu in the top right corner.
2. Choose Synced Calendars, then Sync new calendar.
3. Choose Calendar URL.
4. Paste your Fridge Door link into the box and tap Done.

Give it a few minutes for the first events to appear. These steps follow Skylight's own help article, Syncing subscribed calendars, which has pictures if your app looks different.

Step 2 on a Hearth

Hearth lets you add school, sports and other calendars by their link, from its companion app:

1. Open the Hearth app on your phone and go to where you add a calendar.
2. Choose to add a calendar by its link (URL), and paste your Fridge Door link.
3. Pick who it belongs to, or put it on the whole family, so it shows in the colour you want.

Hearth's menus change from time to time; if you can't find the option, Hearth's features page confirms URL calendars are supported and its support team can point you to it.

Recipes

Your recipes stay in Fridge Door, where you can scale them, convert units and cook from them with the screen kept on, on any phone or tablet. If you also want one in the display's own recipe box, give its recipe import the recipe's original website link (on a Skylight, recipe import is part of Calendar Plus).

Questions

Will changes I make on the display come back to Fridge Door?

No. The link works one way: Fridge Door sends the meals and events, and the display shows them. Make changes in Fridge Door and they appear on the display at its next refresh.

Do I need Skylight's Calendar Plus or a Hearth membership?

Not for the calendar link itself. Skylight's help lists its own meal planning and recipes under the paid Calendar Plus, not calendar links. Hearth asks for a Family membership to set the display up (it says you can cancel any time after) and says Google, iCal and Outlook calendars connect for free. Your meals arrive as ordinary calendar events, so they don't need either display's own meal planner.

How quickly do changes show up?

That's set by the display, which checks the link on its own schedule. Skylight says synced events can take a few minutes; neither company publishes an exact interval. If something is urgent, check it in Fridge Door on your phone.

Can I use the same link in Google, Apple or Outlook calendar too?

Yes. It's a standard calendar link, so you can follow it anywhere. Following it in your phone's calendar and the display at the same time is fine.

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Skylight and Hearth are trademarks of their owners. Fridge Door isn't affiliated with or endorsed by them; their names are used only to explain how they work with Fridge Door.