plover VS awesome-reMarkable

On this end, I am a big fan of the ProCAT writers, mostly because of the communications protocol they use, which allowed me to connect my writer to my laptop, start my CAT of Choice (then digitalCAT, now Plover), and start writing. No need to mess around tapping keys to make sure it's working; it was just ready to go.

please look at the setup instructions if you did not already do it. The Stentura 8000 and 8000LX are compatible with Plover. The instructions are the same as the 400SRT and can be found here. Please tell us if that worked!

You also have dedicated keyboards for a bit less than $250, which can be specifically used for stenography, and might work better if you want a regular keyboard for normal typing, and a stenography keyboard separately.

You can also try the Plover discord server, and go especially to the 'Italian' and 'theory development' tabs. I know I've seen people discussing the Michela machine on the theory development tab just recently, and there are other people working with the machine there who can help you. I think a lot of people are making their own keyboards as well. I have some other links for you to check out along those lines. The Michela machine channel, Michela Stenotype And The Universal Alphabet, and there are a few github and other such sites that will be useful here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Build Plover from source and apply a patch that enables the option of adding a delay between each emulated key event

Are you able to select text on its own with Plover (without the bolding command)? If not, I think your numlock might be enabled. Apparently that leads to issues on Windows (https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/issues/1531).

Plover recognizes that a USB cable is attached, but I have been able to detect my Stentura and I cannot get the red light to turn on regardless of what I do. Any help would be appreciated. I followed the instructions from : https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/How-to-setup-and-use-Plover-with-a-Stentura-400SRT

For a brief test, I downloaded the appimage from here, provided the executable bit and launched it successfully from the CLI

If you look at the code for the English Stenotype implementation, there are four specific keys defined in SUFFIX_KEYS, namely -G, -S, -D, and -Z. That means those are the only keys for which this will work, and only individual keys added as a suffix. That's why adding just -D works, but adding -DZ will not.

> As much as I love the hacker spirit of cracking open hardware and software and bending it to your will (whether or not it was designed towards that end), I enjoy my reMarkable precisely because I can get away from the ubiquity of computing and needing to constantly tinker with and repair software.

Personally I completely agree with you, and could have written almost exactly that paragraph - I too have a ReMarkable (the 2nd / current version), and love using it as it ships for both note taking and especially for reading ebooks/PDFs ("especially" just because it's what I use it for more, not because that's what it's better at - in fact, it's UI for reading documents is among its weaker points and I hope they improve it in future software updates).

However it's worth pointing out that you can SSH into it, and there are a fair few 3rd party tools and hacks for it - so far I've avoided trying any of them as there's nothing that I want enough to have even a 1% risk of bricking it to worry about. But I'm tempted to start playing around with it someday.

This is the best list of stuff for the ReMarkable that I'm aware of, though I don't know how complete it is / how many released tools or guides there might be that aren't included here:

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

There are options for USB/wifi syncing and lots of other community mods if you're handy with a terminal: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

If you follow the instructions and you are fine to turn automatic updates off, you may have a lool at awesome-remarkable https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

This sentence doesn't make sense. People apply hacks because they want to make full use of their device. reMarkable has shortcomings, yes, but they can be overcome with the software that others have written. The Awesome reMarkable link the sidebar was basically a founding document of this very subreddit.

More info can be found at awesome-ReMarkable: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

Use a software to manage your templates automatically. See the Awesome reMarkable list, and Ctrl-F "templates".

You can also take backups using easy, convenient, community-written software, like RCU (which I'm the author of), reMy, reMarkable HyUtilities, rmExplorer, rmAPI, and many others found in the Awesome reMarkable list.

You could try reMy, which has its own renderer. There are more rendering programs in the Awesome reMarkable list, many of which will work with 2.15 and below--just avoid anything saying 'cloud' or 'web UI'.