Hello -
I’ve had my Remarkable 2 for a year or two now. Use it daily.
I would like to have a 2nd Remarkable just to leave on my desk at the office and have both of them share teh same connect account. I tried this a while back and remember it was not possible then so I sold my 2nd tablet.
Have there been any updates to this? Is there a workaround? I don’t mind even paying for 2 subscriptions as long as they share teh same data.
Any suggestions welcome.
TIA!
Be careful with this, the file contains settings other than the sync account.
In particular, it contains the SSH password shown in the settings screen, which is supposed to be the same as the actual SSH password, but may not be. Whenever the OS is upgraded, the “new” OS will generate a new random password, set that password for the
root
user, and update thexochitl.conf
file with that new password.As an example, let’s say that …
aaaaa
, and itsxochitl.conf
file containsDeveloperPassword=aaaaa
.bbbbb
, and itsxochitl.conf
file containsDeveloperPassword=bbbbb
.If you copy
xochitl.conf
from tablet A to tablet B …bbbbb
, but itsxochitl.conf
file will now sayDeveloperPassword=aaaaa
.aaaaa
.Ways around this:
xochitl.conf
from tablet A to tablet B, edit thexochitl.conf
file and put the correct password back on theDeveloperPassword=
line. This will make the settings screen show the correct password. (You may need to restartxochitl
in order for it to start showing the updated password in the settings screen.)aaaaa
, so that the settings screen is accurate.FWIW on my own tablets, after each OS upgrade I manually change the
root
user’s password to something which (1) does not match the settings screen, and (2) is recorded in 1Password in case I ever need it. I also have an SSH key that I use on all of my personal systems, and have installed the sameauthorized_keys
file on both tablets.Of course, this is the way.