How to Get Sprocket Schedules on a Skylight Calendar

The reason this feels impossible: your club's website never says the word Sprocket, so searching the club's name for calendar instructions finds nothing. But the feed is there — Sprocket publishes a subscribable link for each team, and the Skylight app accepts a calendar URL. Copy the link once, route it through one merged family calendar, and the wall maintains itself.

⏱ Takes about 7 minutes

The steps

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    Log in to your club's site and copy the team's calendar link. Your club's website is a Sprocket site wearing the club's logo — usually at an address like yourclub.sprocketsports.com — and the calendar controls only appear once you're signed in with your registration account. Open your team's schedule (the list of actual events, not the club-wide calendar on the public side), find the calendar/subscribe control, and take Copy to Clipboard rather than the Outlook shortcut beside it. If the web dashboard doesn't show it, the Sprocket Sports mobile app has the same option on the team schedule.

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    Drop it into Schedule Caddie (free) and grab the merged URL. Add Schedule → paste. Sprocket hands out one link per team, so a second team or a sibling on another app is a second paste — do them all now, along with the school PDF. Then take the single All Events URL from Subscribe & Share. That one address is what the wall will follow, and it comes with change-alert emails whenever your club edits a time or location.

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    In the Skylight app, sync that URL as a new calendar. Skylight subscribes to calendar feed URLs directly (per its support docs): My Skylight menu → Synced Calendars → Sync new calendar → Calendar URL → paste → Done. Note the paste happens in the phone app, not on the display itself. If you'd rather the wall mirror a calendar you already live in, subscribe Google (web: + next to "Other calendars" → From URL), Apple (Settings → Apps → Calendar → Add Subscribed Calendar), or Outlook (Add calendar → Subscribe from web) to the same URL — Skylight shows connected calendars too.

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    Make sure the new calendar is switched on for the display. Back in the Skylight app (or on the device), confirm the calendar you added is enabled for display. After that nothing needs touching: the club updates Sprocket, Schedule Caddie re-reads the feed every hour, and the kitchen wall follows.

If something's not working

I can't find a calendar link anywhere on my club's site

Two things to check before giving up. First, are you logged in? Sprocket's calendar options — and even its help articles — are invisible to anyone who isn't. Second, are you on the team's schedule page rather than the club-wide public calendar? Clubs white-label Sprocket, so the control sits in a slightly different spot from club to club; the Sprocket Sports mobile app is the next place to look, and your club's registrar or support@sprocketsports.com can point at it if five minutes turns up nothing.

The club moved a practice and the Skylight still shows the old slot

Two delays stack here. Sprocket's own guidance is that a subscribed calendar can take up to 24 hours to reflect added or updated events, and Skylight doesn't publish a refresh interval for URL-synced calendars (routing via Google or Apple adds their 12–24-hour cycle on top). The wall will catch up eventually — the email from Schedule Caddie is how you find out today, because it fires when the Sprocket feed changes rather than when the display repaints.

The Skylight stopped getting new games after the season turned over

A Sprocket link points at a stored calendar file, and when the club rolls to a new season or rebuilds the team that file can simply stop existing — the display keeps polling an address that no longer updates and shows no error. Go back to the team's schedule on the club site (or the app), copy the current link, and swap it in. If the old link lived in Schedule Caddie, replace it there and the Skylight's one merged URL stays valid.

Frequently asked questions

Is this an upload or a sync? I was expecting to upload a file.

A sync. Nothing gets uploaded to the Skylight — you give it a feed address and it keeps re-reading that address, so games added or moved on your club's Sprocket site turn up on the wall without you redoing anything. A one-time file upload would freeze the schedule at whatever it looked like that day.

Can I paste the Sprocket link straight into the Skylight app and skip Schedule Caddie?

Yes — Skylight takes a feed URL directly, and for a single team at a single club that works. The merge upstream is what you'd be giving up: every other team and the school calendar in the same feed, dedupe, and emails naming what changed (the display absorbs feed changes silently). It also means a dead link at season rollover is fixed in one place instead of on every family device.

Why can't I find Sprocket's own instructions for this?

Because Sprocket publishes its help articles inside each club's logged-in site, not on the open web, and every club styles its own pages. Search engines never see those articles, so you won't either until you sign in. Sprocket's help center files the feature under "Subscribe/View a Team Calendar" — the shape is a schedule page with a calendar or subscribe control attached, whatever your club has named it.

Do I need Skylight Plus?

No. Syncing calendars to the display is part of the base Skylight experience; Plus covers extras such as Magic Import and chore rewards. Schedule Caddie is free as well, so this whole pipeline costs nothing beyond the display.

Is Schedule Caddie connected to Sprocket or Skylight?

Neither — we're an independent, free family-schedule tool. Sprocket runs your club, Skylight runs the wall, and we keep the schedule between them accurate and watched.

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