Is it possible to do stenography with the Pocket using Plover or Javelin, seeing as there is a ortholinear mechanical keyboard in this device and that is the minimum requirement for steno? I would like to buy this, but not sure if it’s going to work. Would be cool to learn Linux too.
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I’ve researched the mentioned software. The Plover software is supported by Debian, available in their repository. Think there is no reason not to work on the Pocket Reform, as it comes with Debian. And likely you will not need Javelin (it’s keyboard firmware). In addition, the Pocket keyboard firmware (and HW) are open source, so you can adapt it to your needs. You can buy from MNT blank caps and arrange the keys to your preferences, then have them laser engraved accordingly.
Hope it helps.
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Upon further read, appear Javelin may not be supported in Pocket Reform, as could find on their website code that is not specific to known orto typewrites.
I’ve also installed Plover on my Debian 13 Trixie, but it didn’t run properly (didn’t display the GUI). Further reading their wiki, Wayland is not officially supported and Debian 13 comes with it. There is workaround given to switch to X11 or use some plugins. It will not be straight forward to use the software you’ve mentioned. I’m sorry.
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Hmm, ok. Maybe I’ll wait for a while then, too bad. Excellent help though.
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The wiki is out of date, newer versions of Plover (might not be in the debian repos, but you can download the appimage from github) should work fine with wayland
Porting Javelin to the pocket reform should be possible as well, Javelin has RP2040 bindings. The only tricky part is that the Pocket Reform keyboard needs to drive the OLED and (iirc) turn the pocket on, so you’d need to port that code to Javelin; Javelin already supports screens. I think this would be very doable
It needs 16MB flash on the RP2040 though, I don’t know but I doubt the pocket reform comes with that
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