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That gives me a lot of hope. At some pint the article mentions a "proprietary cloud service" which immediately made me worry that this would be a locked-up devi

That gives me a lot of hope. At some pint the article mentions a "proprietary cloud service" which immediately made me worry that this would be a locked-up device. If the underlying software is open source, that would also suggest that it if there is a large enough community, it will keep working for much longer than the company supports it. And it gives hope for better software fixes. For example, the writing-lag mentioned sounds like it should be solvable with better data structures under the hood.

splitbrain 9y ago
The API used for the cloud service is quite simple. There are already two projects on github implementing it (one by me) - search for remarkable-tablet to find them. The tablet also works fine without using the cloud service, it has a built-in webserver to upload documents to it that you can just access via WiFi or USB-LAN. Really this device is a hacker's dream in terms of openness. The only last thing I'd wish for was open sourcing the main software application running on it.
- masukomi 9y ago
  is there any way to tell it to use your cloud service instead of theirs ? In other words, what good is a custom reimplementation of it if you can't make it point at them without dns hacking?
  - lima 9y ago
    Yes, you can SSH into the device and change a config file. This is a hacker's dream indeed.
    - vanderZwan 9y ago
      How fast is the data transfer? Do you think one could hack it into a "screen" by streaming a black-and-white image data from a computer to it? So the connected computer would do all the heavy lifting related to rendering, compress the result to something that is really easy to decompress, send it over, and tablet would just decompress a bitmap and blit it to the screen?
      - lima 9y ago
        Haven't tried, but you're either limited by USB2.0 or the wifi chip. Given the low refresh rate of the panel, something like that should work just fine. Pretty sure I saw a YouTube video by someone who hacked it together using periodic screenshots.

splitbrain 9y ago

The API used for the cloud service is quite simple. There are already two projects on github implementing it (one by me) - search for remarkable-tablet to find them. The tablet also works fine without using the cloud service, it has a built-in webserver to upload documents to it that you can just access via WiFi or USB-LAN. Really this device is a hacker's dream in terms of openness. The only last thing I'd wish for was open sourcing the main software application running on it.

masukomi 9y ago
is there any way to tell it to use your cloud service instead of theirs ? In other words, what good is a custom reimplementation of it if you can't make it point at them without dns hacking?
- lima 9y ago
  Yes, you can SSH into the device and change a config file. This is a hacker's dream indeed.
  - vanderZwan 9y ago
    How fast is the data transfer? Do you think one could hack it into a "screen" by streaming a black-and-white image data from a computer to it? So the connected computer would do all the heavy lifting related to rendering, compress the result to something that is really easy to decompress, send it over, and tablet would just decompress a bitmap and blit it to the screen?
    - lima 9y ago
      Haven't tried, but you're either limited by USB2.0 or the wifi chip. Given the low refresh rate of the panel, something like that should work just fine. Pretty sure I saw a YouTube video by someone who hacked it together using periodic screenshots.