This is really great timing. I ordered mine a few months ago and am part of the "Batch 8" shipping. I just got the notification today that mine is about to ship.
So did I. That can't be a coincidence ;)
Mine arrives Friday; can't wait! :)
ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
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#102I'd love it if the reMarkable team focused more on eReader functionality. Unfortunately nothing has really been pushed since the initial release of the first reMarkable. Less than 7GB usable storage hurts as well. I'm hoping KoReader can salvage what the reMarkable team has ignored.
Isn't it already does? I am running KoReader on rM1 for eReader purposes. It works this way: I start by long press of the middle button on rM1. To switch back, I quit KoReader and it restarts built in UI utility. It needs small service running in background. The only issue I've noticed is with battery life which seems the same even in a sleep mode. I am curious is that because of this small service that ignores sleep…
Yeah, KOreader doesn't currently work on the RM2, but from what I can tell they're working on (unofficial devs).
It would be nice if KOreader were better integrated into the official OS, but yeah I don't really care myself.
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#103Is there any move to get a Kindle app on this? I suspect the market is not big enough for Amazon to care but maybe they'd be open to some partnership where someone else does the work? I mean they ship readers on Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, and Web so it's not like they care that you buy a Kindle.
No native Kindle app to my knowledge, but there are e-readers (see https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#application... ) that support PDF, epub, and DjVu.
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#104Are there any SRS applications available for remarkable? (Like Anki or superMemo?)
Don't believe so. For the rm1 there's a full linux distro (parabola-rm). I'd be surprised if you couldn't use anki or something in that. May not be the cleanest solution, but it should work.
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#105is there anyway to directly transfer files to the tablet without using their cloud services?
You can connect the device to your computer via USB and SSH into it. There's a web interface that you can access, or you can use rsync, scp, etc.
In fact you can ssh to the device over wifi, even without connecting the device via USB. The device just needs to be awake (not sleeping/suspended). The web interface works only over USB, but you can scp files onto the device directly (and create an appropriate .metadata file with a one-liner) — see https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/filesystem and https://gist.github.com/Utopiah/e2d5c944bbd632e3ae0530e60297...
I'm yet to figure out (haven't searched enough yet) how to export the files out of the device (i.e. convert from their format to PDF/SVG) without using the USB web interface though; when I do, my workflow will be complete.
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#106Does anyone know if syncing with cloud can be disabled?
Yeah, I never even so much as set up a cloud account. You can skip it and it doesn't break anything that's not obviously cloud based.
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#107Having used the reMarkable 1 tablet for over a year now, the hackability is so refreshing to have in a consumer device. The tablet runs Linux and you can SSH into with root access. The hacking community is quite active, one frequently asked question is how to get and run custom software on the device. There's the Entware[0] package repository for running ARMv7 software on the tablet. Recently a community maintained p…
I stumbled on some article describing that Remarkable calls home and sends some statistics. I've checked and indeed it does. My hacking attitude says it is absolutely unacceptable. The good news you can disable it, and I did. But for poople to be aware , this is what it does by default. Can't say I like that part of rM software. Unfortunately now I've looked for the article and can't find it. If you saw one, please d…
Majority of consumer facing products collect usage analytics, otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I guess it's the Wacom digitiser broadcasting RF all the time. Great, it has expensive royalties and it betrays the user.
Short range analog RF signal to detect where the pen is, not something containing digital information. Your toothbrush motor and charger probably has comparable level of RF radiation come out.
Ah I misread that, thanks
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#109I've thought about getting one of these. Even though I type about as fast as I write, I think better when I write in a notebook with drawings to organize my ideas. Can anyone who has one tell me how accurate the handwriting recognition is? And how responsive is the pen-tablet interface? Does it actually feel like writing on paper (responsiveness-wise)?
The handwriting is pretty good, but tied to a language you pick, which can be annoying if like me you write/think in some messy mix of French/English. It results in the words from the language picked to be pretty well recognized, but the words from the 'other' language being mapped to similar words from the picked language quite a lot. For exemple, me writing 'Quelle horreur !' is recognised well if I pick French, bu…
Interesting. How about if you're writing with some technical words (or using the names of projects or companies that are made-up words) that don't appear in dictionaries? Does it have a dictionary that you can add words to?
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#110Does anyone know if it's possible to use a ReMarkable tablet as an external laptop monitor? In the summer I like to sit outside coding, but the sunlight outshines my laptops LCD display. So I'd like to use an eInk display as an external monitor. And I gather ReMarkable is the best bet because of their hackability.
Among other VNC clients I've checked the only one that realy worked for me and I've managed to compile was this one: https://github.com/matteodelabre/vnsee The author is also very nice and responsive to bug reports. I've managed to make it work as second monitor for linux virtual machine. I wish I could use it as second monitor for Mac and was unable to make it work with MacOS so far. Anyone made it work with Mac? Wh…
I suspect (based on similar issues years ago) that you could get it working on MacOS in either one of two ways:
1. Set a password for the setting “VNC viewers may control screen with password:” in the screen sharing settings. Most of the issue with standard VNC clients is that MacOS uses MacOS-specific login security, but setting a password opens it up to VNC-standard security
2. Install an alternate VNC server on the Mac. This bypasses all the MacOS security nonsense.