Remarkable2-framebuffer Alternatives

remarkable2-framebuffer reviews and mentions

• Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2026

  Nice. That latency is tough though.

  On that latency, I wrote an equivalent "magic mirror" type tool that lets you write to the mirror/oracle/VLM on the remarkable and get an answer back.

  A few possible solutions I explored:

  1) You can try and consume (and possibly write to) the frame buffer directly. https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer was my starting point. This gets you instant updates about what's going on. I guess you could pair this with speculative decoding to get a much faster output.

  2) You can use the streaming API on the device to stream the screen to a beefy server, possibly over Tailscale, letting you do everything off device.

  3) You can write your own Qt app; ddvk's repos are a good starting point here.

  I ultimately instructed claude to write me my own app. Which worked enough to scratch my itch, and I never use it. But this was five months ago, an eternity in vibe hobby projects, so perhaps modern tooling would let me get it in shape and be usable.

  Where my mind goes for your project is that I think it'd be nicest to keep a sort of Jupyter notebook somewhere that's the canonical representation, that would have your handwritten blocks and an interpretation, and then the output. then a render layer to get it back onto the screen. At that point, I don't think I'd care very much if it's stored as a PDF on the device, which points back to having this be an app.

  Either way it's fun to tinker! the RM line is very hackable, and I still wish it were even easier, the hardware just makes you think of so many possibilities.

• E-ink is so Retropunk
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023
• Help with reading a book
  8 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 26 Jul 2022

  Looks like rm2fb is now installed by default: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer/issues/90

• Modders, any thoughts on RM Glitchart?
  2 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 26 May 2022

  We can currently hook into it, but only to obtain the framebuffer or send updates ourselves. 3rd party mods use remarkable-framebuffer which does the injection and easily enables 3rd party community apps/mods to use the screen.

• rm2fb
  1 project | /r/RemarkableTablet | 6 Feb 2022

  Is is safe? there are issues like this or this

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  1 project | /r/RemarkableTablet | 6 Feb 2022
• HELP! RM2 stuck at start screen
  3 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 17 Nov 2021

  Instructions here, at the end of the "Configuration" section. Please not, however, that these settings were only added to the rm2fb repo 11 hours ago (commit). So again, best to check that up-to-date settings exist before upgrading your firmware.

• I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2021

  It's an eInk screen, so yes-ish.

  We get around this by just piggybacking on the build in application's screen display routines[0]

  https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer

• How to install Harmony (or other additional stuff) on rm2
  2 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 25 Aug 2021

  Have you installed rm2fb? https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer

• RM2 Stuck on Start Screen -
  1 project | /r/RemarkableTablet | 22 Aug 2021
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