Can't get plugin to work about kicad-kbplacer

[malcx95]

Just tested with my computer and for some reason it works fine there. The both run Linux mint, but this time I installed kicad 6 directly without installing kicad 7 first. Maybe Kicad 7 doesn't completely uninstall properly? Anyway, it works for me now, thanks!

[adamws]

This happens on both the example files

please clarify which examples are you using. Did you try with demo project?

Also, version v0.2 (latest release) is not KiCad 7 compatible.

[malcx95]

I just realized I missed the first part of the instruction, which is to create the matrix schematic. I also only used the layout json from the examples and not the whole project.

So I now installed Kicad 6.0 on Linux and downloaded the demo project in the demo folder. I open the demo project, go to the PCB Editor, but now when I select Tools > External plugins > Keyboard placer I am immediately met with this:

I have also as the instructions said copied the contents of kbdplacer to what Kicad says is the plugin directory, but it does not seem to make a difference.

[adamws]

I started work on KiCad 7 compatibility, should be available soon.

[sakgoyal]

is this updated for kicad 7 yet? its not working for me (windows 10). When I ran that python code to get the traceback, the result was empty. not sure what I should do now

[adamws]

yes, KiCad 7 is supported since release v0.3

• what is exact version of kicad you are using (7.0.7 was released few days ago, it wasn't tested on that yet)
• import pcbnew; pcbnew.GetWizardsBackTrace() returns empty string if there are no errors while loading plugin. Check if it is listed in Preferences->PCB Editor->Action Plugins