How to setup `vnsee` on the remarkable paper pro

vnsee.md

Required applications

• the remarkable toolchain
• make ssh scp

Install xovi

• Follow https://github.com/asivery/rmpp-xovi-extensions/blob/master/INSTALL.MD

• Copy the qt-resource-rebuilder.so in the extensions.zip to /home/root/xovi/extensions.d(via scp)

• Remember to refresh the hashtables https://github.com/asivery/rmpp-xovi-extensions/blob/master/INSTALL.MD#to-update-hashtab-required-for-ui-mods

• Clone the https://github.com/asivery/xovi repo, and put it somewhere convinent.

Install qtfb

• git clone https://github.com/asivery/qtfb && cd qtfb
• cd xovi
• set XOVI_HOME to your local xovi git repo
• modify the make.sh script so that the first line points to your toolchain
• (my case its source /opt/codex/ferrari/4.0.813/environment-setup-cortexa53-crypto-remarkable-linux)
• run the make.sh file
• copy libqtfb.so to the tablet's /home/root/xovi/extensions.d
• run ~/xovi/start on your tablet to load the extension(you only have to do this once!)

Compile rmpp-qtfb-shim

• git clone https://github.com/asivery/rmpp-qtfb-shim && cd rmpp-qtfb-shim
• source the remarkable toolchain(source /opt/codex/ferrari/4.0.813/environment-setup-cortexa53-crypto-remarkable-linux)
• run the make.sh file
• copy shim.so to the tablet's /home/root/

Compile vnsee

• git clone https://github.com/asivery/vnsee && vnsee
• set CMAKE_FILE to the cmake file that the toolchain provides (e.g. export CMAKE_FILE=/opt/codex/ferrari/4.0.813/sysroots/x86_64-codexsdk-linux/usr/share/cmake/cortexa53-crypto-remarkable-linux-toolchain.cmake)
• cmake -S . -B src/build/Release -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="$CMAKE_FILE" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
• cmake --build src/build/Release
• copy src/build/Release/vnsee to the tablet's /home/root

Run vnsee

• on your host machine, do wayvnc 10.11.99.11 5900 -o DP-2 -f 10(adjust ip and output if needed)
• ssh into your tablet
• run LD_PRELOAD=./shim.so ./vnsee
• you should see your screen on your remarkable paper pro!

Additional Resources

• use your tablet as a second screen https://github.com/asivery/vnsee#setup-as-a-second-screen
• if you can't get wayvnc to run on the remarkable paper pro's ip, use this ssh command to tunnel it ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 [email protected]

Since this requires installing the rmpp toolchain which I didn't have, here's a way to do it (thanks to the folks on discord).

Download https://storage.googleapis.com/remarkable-codex-toolchain/3.15.4.2/meta-toolchain-remarkable-4.1.112-ferrari-public-x86_64-toolchain.sh (from here)

then run: docker pull eeems/remarkable-toolchain:latest-rmpp (must have docker ofc)

and after it finishes run: docker run -it -v $HOME/Downloads/meta-toolchain-remarkable-4.1.112-ferrari-public-x86_64-toolchain.sh:/tmp/meta-toolchain-remarkable-4.1.112-ferrari-public-x86_64-toolchain.sh:ro eeems/remarkable-toolchain:latest-rmpp and install the toolchain in a directory of your liking then follow the rest of this guide.