In freaking love my RM2. Use it every day!!!
ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
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Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Majority of consumer facing products collect usage analytics, otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product.
Producers managed to improve products for thousands of years without violating the privacy of their customer. Equating slightly inconvenient with impossible doesn't make for a great argument.
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#113I've been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it's a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That's a shame, because the hardware is really cheap. ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these "hacks" were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn…
The company provides a dev toolchain[0] and seems pretty committed to keeping the device open, even the CTO[1] hacks on it publicly, like this crossword app[2] with handwriting recognition. [0] https://remarkable.engineering/ [1] https://github.com/sandsmark [2] https://github.com/sandsmark/recrossable
That is an impressive GitHub account!
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#114Does 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.
For monitor you need high refresh rate. Dasung monitors are the only option right now. My only regret with dasung monitor is that I didn't buy is sooner. I can work long hours now without my eyes getting tired. http://www.dasungtech.com/
Wow that thing looks amazing
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#115I am really enjoying the ReMarkable 2. I wish the display were more "actual" paper size of course (it's 10.3" diagonal (no margins) rather than US Letter's more typical 13.8" diagonal (no margins), or even a moleskin's 11" diagonal (no margins))
That said, sketching/writing are just as good as they are on the iPad Pro or Surface Pro. The pen/glass "feel" is no worse than those other two solutions either (but no better either). Very low latency, easy page switching. The iPad's rapid zoom in / zoom out is helpful in sketchpad for drawing details which epaper clearly has challenges with. But In terms of taking notes or writing down things as I'm coding and need to get back to? It's super awesome.
I've also put PDFs of data sheets on it which are easy to read (if a bit shrunk). The PDF reader is functional, same with the EPub viewer, would like to have the click the page to turn pages that the kindle and other apps on touch screens do.
Syncing with the computer is pretty seamless.
I don't like that it clears the screen and puts "reMarkable is sleeping" on the screen when I've had it sitting open with a PDF. There may be an option to change that but I haven't found it yet.
All in all I'm glad I got it and I've been using it pretty much every other day or so.
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#116I've been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it's a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That's a shame, because the hardware is really cheap. ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these "hacks" were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn…
> ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, I have been contemplating buying a ReMarkable 2 as I prefer to handwrite everything/annotate/. The price tag is a bit hefty given the cost of an iPad and pencil and the zillion other things it does. I'm curious if you are indeed going to buy one?
I recently got my RM2 and love it. I already own a 13" iPad Pro with the pencil, but for being a notebook, the RM2 easily beats the iPad. Yes, there is way better software on the iPad and you get all kind of fancy drawing tools. Where the RM2 beats the iPad is:
- it looks and feels like paper. No glowing screen, textured surface, it just feels like writing with a pen.
- the always-on display. I use the ReMarkable as my notebook while working and can have it in front of my all day long. You still can see the screen content when it goes to sleep after 20 minutes (sleep can be deactivated) and you can even have it preserve the content when it switches off after 3 hours. So you keep your notes in view. With the iPad, it turns itself off quickly and of course uses way more power.
- overall I think it has the better design for this purpose than the iPad, I have the book-like cover and love it.
- hackability. I need to learn more about that, but you can ssh into it and have a normal linux shell. Try that with an iPad :p. It seems to be very easy to cross compile Go programs for the ReMarkable.
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#117If there is a remarkable person that sees this, please embrace the hacker community. It is a huge asset to have us by your side, and it's a huge differentiator from all the other tablets which have walled off developers. Also, it would be pretty sweet some part of the API was documented.
They just recently released their toolchain for the reMarkable 2 https://github.com/reMarkable/linux/issues/7 The toolchain for the rM1 has been out for a long time. Since it's just a linux device, there is a ton of existing documentation on how to work with it.
Wow! I've had their tablets since the first launch, and I had no idea had an active Github. This is a great first step.
My view of embrace is goes further than releasing an operating system. For some, it's a little intimidating for a dev to start with. :)
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#118I am really enjoying the ReMarkable 2. I wish the display were more "actual" paper size of course (it's 10.3" diagonal (no margins) rather than US Letter's more typical 13.8" diagonal (no margins), or even a moleskin's 11" diagonal (no margins)) That said, sketching/writing are just as good as they are on the iPad Pro or Surface Pro. The pen/glass "feel" is no worse than those other two solutions either (but no bette…
You can disable auto-sleep.
And you can modify the png for sleeping. Any transparent pixels will show the screen contents. I changed mine to completely cover the entire screen when sleeping. (I use a passcode and don’t want people seeing the screen contents)
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#119I am really enjoying the ReMarkable 2. I wish the display were more "actual" paper size of course (it's 10.3" diagonal (no margins) rather than US Letter's more typical 13.8" diagonal (no margins), or even a moleskin's 11" diagonal (no margins)) That said, sketching/writing are just as good as they are on the iPad Pro or Surface Pro. The pen/glass "feel" is no worse than those other two solutions either (but no bette…
Just replace suspended.png with a small image and the rest of the screen is not covered on sleep :)
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#120If there is a remarkable person that sees this, please embrace the hacker community. It is a huge asset to have us by your side, and it's a huge differentiator from all the other tablets which have walled off developers. Also, it would be pretty sweet some part of the API was documented.
Are none of the other eBook readers "hackable", and/or running a mostly-plain-vanilla Linux distribution?
Well the reMarkable isn't an eBook reader. That is something it can do, but it's more aimed at note taking. You also have root access out of box, which is not something that eBook readers give you.