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Can't get it to work

Man, I love the idea of this project, but I haven't been able to get it to work. In USB mode it appears that the image generation is failing, so it can't do OCR to extract text. Even if cloud mode is slow, I'd be willing to live with it to give it a go, but it fails with bad request, despite me copying and pasting the generated key output from the terminal.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Read the thread · 2026-05-20 · closed · external user · 6 comments

remarkable_image fails in Claude Desktop/Web with "cairo library missing", but works in MCP Inspector

I'm seeing inconsistent behavior between MCP Inspector and Claude.

Because Inspector successfully generates PNG images, it doesn't appear that Cairo is actually missing on the server.

Environment

npx -y mcp-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/137) · 2026-07-21 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### 400 Bad Request on sync/v3 endpoint - Cloud authentication fails despite valid device token

**Environment**
- OS: Windows 11
- remarkable-mcp version: latest (uvx remarkable-mcp)
- Transport: Cloud (REMARKABLE_TOKEN via environment variable)
- reMarkable Connect subscription: active

**Problem**
Authentication always fails with 400 Bad Request on a specific sync/v3 URL.
The URL and hash are always identical regardless of token:

  400 Client Error: Bad Request for url:
  https://internal.cloud.remarkable.com/sync/v3/files/8a2469797b082cbe6ad8ff9fc5a4b8ca161cc44f59542ebc9d3ace1ce5ee32dc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/101) · 2026-06-06 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Export in pdf, ocr via google gemini

Thanks for your incredible work!

I'm wondering why you chose google vision api, if let's say gemini flash can do the trick with pdf even simpplier and with a way better quality?

Thanks, af

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/44) · 2026-01-12 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Add a pluggable OCR provider interface

## Summary

Add more OCR provider options beyond Google Vision and Tesseract. Goal: **BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)** — let users choose their preferred provider.

## Current State

| Provider | Status | Notes |
|----------|--------|-------|
| Google Vision | ✅ Implemented | Excellent handwriting recognition |
| Tesseract | ✅ Implemented | Offline fallback, poor for handwriting |

## Proposed Additions

| Provider | Priority | Notes |
|----------|----------|-------|
| **Microsoft Azure AI Vision** |

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/25) · 2025-11-28 · open · 4 comments

### Most recent

### Avoid event-loop blocking after USB metadata cache invalidation race

## Problem

`USBWebClient.run_method_async()` checks whether `get_meta_items` is cached, releases the metadata lock, then may call `get_meta_items()` synchronously. If another thread invalidates the cache in that narrow gap, the second check starts a full USB HTTP traversal on the asyncio event-loop thread.

## Impact

Results remain correct, but all MCP tool handling can pause for the duration of the metadata traversal.

## Expected behavior

Keep the cached fast path, but ensure a cache miss a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/179) · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

### Exclude trashed documents from lookup and resource registration

## Problem

A trashed document keeps its visible name. If a live document has the same name, by-name resolution can select the trashed item first. Trashed documents may also be registered as MCP resources.

Reported by @lowercasename in #163.

## Scope

Use the existing `_is_cloud_archived` transport-aware predicate rather than adding another trash helper. Apply it consistently to:

- shared `remarkable_read` / `remarkable_image` document lookup
- `remarkable_canvas` lookup
- synchronous resourc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/171) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 1 comment

### Protect USB web document caches during concurrent dispatch

## Problem

`USBWebClient` permits concurrent operations but reads and replaces `_documents` and `_documents_by_id` without a shared lock. A concurrent reader can observe the updated list with the previous ID map, or vice versa.

## Impact

The failure is transient and does not change tablet data, but it can produce stale or inconsistent document resolution under concurrent USB operations.

## Expected behavior

Use one metadata lock and a generation-aware or atomic cache replacement pattern, ma

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/170) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 0 comments

### Refresh after cancellation when an SSH write may have started

## Problem

If `OperationDispatcher.close()` cancels an active SSH write after the remote-execution marker was emitted, `_run_process` currently raises `SSHJobCancelled`. `SSHRefreshCoordinator.run_write` treats that as a clean cancellation and does not schedule a safety refresh, even though the remote mutation may already have started.

## Impact

Local caches are invalidated and recover on the next read, but the tablet UI may not notice the filesystem mutation until another write or a manual `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/169) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 0 comments

### remarkable_read and remarkable_image disagree on total_pages for handwritten notebooks

One more from Claude, so the usual grain of salt applies:

For a notebook that's mostly handwriting, `remarkable_read` reports `total_pages` as the number of extracted text segments (`len(notebook_pages)`), which collapses to 1 when there's little or no typed text. `remarkable_image` reports the real document page count. So the same seven page notebook answers 1 from one tool and 7 from the other.

This affects any client that reads first and then iterates pages using the count it was given. Not

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/165) · 2026-08-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### render_merged is opt-in, so agents silently get inkless renders of annotated PDFs

Claude has filed this one too, but pretty sure it's right!

After #159 the merged PDF and annotation rendering works really well, but `remarkable_image` defaults to `render_merged=False`. A client that doesn't pass the flag follows the annotation-only path: a page with ink renders as bare strokes floating on the background with no PDF page beneath them, and a page without ink falls back to rasterizing the clean source PDF. Neither response mentions the missing layer. This is a bad bug for agent 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp/issues/164) · 2026-08-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### default nix configuration module does not even build

git commit version: `d0f98094626bb2fb49c32b10bfb8fcc6b732966d`

error:

building the system configuration... error: … while calling the 'derivationStrict' builtin at «nix-internal»/derivation-internal.nix:37:12: 36| 37| strict = derivationStrict drvAttrs; | ^ 38|

   … while evaluating derivation 'nixos-system-nixos-26.11pre1050399.279b4a8275f0'
     whose name attribute is located at /nix/store/dy2m3gv51jdklsi

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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