awesome-reMarkable VS Kernel_Unico

Compare awesome-reMarkable vs Kernel_Unico and see what are their differences.

awesome-reMarkable

A curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet (by reHackable)

Kernel_Unico

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awesome-reMarkable Kernel_Unico
146 2
5,814 31
2.7% -
7.3 0.0
18 days ago over 8 years ago
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awesome-reMarkable

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-reMarkable. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.

Kernel_Unico

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kernel_Unico. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-22.
  • Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2021
    > From what I've seen working on an e-reader,

    > f you want to use the nice partial refresh waveform, the open source aspect of this is going to run face first into secrecy requirements. The company selling you the display controller may be willing to build you an out of tree kernel module, and you can totally figure out what it does, but it won't be open source at that point.

    I'm sorry but you're making rather clearly incorrect statements which makes me suspicious of the veracity of your other comments. I'm quite familiar with their current and past technologies. You used the term "Partial refresh waveform". First of all, E Ink's active matrix electrophoretic displays like the ones in the Kindle don't need to be refreshed. That's a fundamental property. Secondly, in case you meant "partial update", that's a property of the display controller, not of the waveform. You can google this and easily see that it in fact open source and commonly utilized. https://github.com/UDOOboard/Kernel_Unico/blob/master/driver... . Most modern EPDC even the hardware ones contain that feature and it is exposed as open source.

    > run face first into secrecy requirements.

    I'd like to see an elaboration of your claims. Please share what evidence you have about all this "secrecy". I work in the display industry, not for E Ink, and I've never heard of these things going on so it would be quite interesting for me to learn about it.

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2021
    > They've figured out all the difficult stuff about e-ink

    They meaning Remarkable? If so, then that's marketing-speak. The simple truth is that Remarkable's products all use NXP (formerly Freescale) controllers. The Remarkable2 uses i.mx7D. That has a built-in hardware EPDC. You can google it. The driver is open source. https://github.com/UDOOboard/Kernel_Unico/blob/master/driver...

    That's what does all the "difficult stuff". Not Remarkable.

    > did you know that to flip pixels, e-ink displays require annoyingly proprietary lookup tables of waveforms that can be up to 5-dimensional?

    Yes. But you realize tables are each panel specific. Meaning every single panel you see requires a custom waveform. Nowadays they (E Ink and their partners)'re getting better and have some increased level of consistency so some waveforms can achieve the same result on whole batches of panels. But you'll still see it being batch specific. Take a waveform for one batch and try to use it on another and you'll get lousy ghosty results or maybe even damage the panel permanently.

    > and worked with E-ink directly to implement said waveform table, very low-latency partial updates, and other e-ink "secrets" that could very well be worked out via reverse engineering but are otherwise under NDA.

    That's more marketing speak. If you look at their code which they published, https://github.com/remarkable , it is just minor patches to NXP's driver. All the hard work was done by NXP.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing awesome-reMarkable and Kernel_Unico you can also consider the following projects:

zotero-remarkable - Sync papers from Zotero to a reMarkable tablet

google-drive-remarkable-sync - Apps Script library for synchronising Google Drive folder with Remarkable reader.

remarkable-hacks - additional functionality via binary patching

mendeley-rMsync - Script to sync papers from Mendeley to reMarkable tablet

koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

reMarkableSync - An OneNote AddIn for importing digitized notes from the reMarkable tablet.

toltec - Community-maintained repository of free software for the reMarkable tablet.

org-journal - A simple org-mode based journaling mode

remarkable2-hacks - A collection of hacks, mods, tools, tips & tricks, specifically focused on the reMarkable 2

remarkable2-recovery - recovery tools for reMarkable 2

netsurf-reMarkable - NetSurf is a lightweight and portable open-source web browser. This projects adapts NetSurf for the reMarkable E Ink tablet.

rmview - A live viewer for reMarkable written in PyQt5