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Re:Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate wit... by hansel_der on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:04AM (#27760130)
have a look at the 'shortcuts' app[1]. the automation thing has conditional triggers inluding time of day and actions like ssh-rpc.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shortcuts/id915249334

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Re:Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate wit... by swiley on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:24AM (#27760281)
Those are extremeley limited and I don't think it's possible to run any kind of interesting scripts locally.

I did look at it when I still had an iPhone and it's one of those "almost usable but fundamentally broken" things that are par for iOS. It works well enough that I could spend a weekend or two making stuff that almost works with it.

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Re:Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate wit... by tritones on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:26AM (#27762182)
Jailbroken devices have this ability. At one point I had rclone daemon syncing iCloud files to Seafile through the terminal. You can also run scripts through Shortcuts by local ssh
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Re:Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate wit... by hansel_der on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:03AM (#27760633)
> I don't think it's possible to run any kind of interesting scripts locally.

it has the ability to run pythonista scripts amog others... but yea, it's not a fully exposed unix where most things are files.

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Re:Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate wit... by swiley on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:19AM (#27760789)
Most things are, in fact, files. It's just a massive pain to do anything with them.
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