I may be able to give pointers but this
is not nearly enough to go on. What errors do you see? What specific commands/scripts are you running?
Yeah, that was a crappy ask for help.
So: I have this on my Dockerfile to address InteractiveHtmlBom:
RUN apt install -y wget
RUN apt install -y software-properties-common xvfb
RUN wget https://github.com/openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom/releases/download/v2.9.0/InteractiveHtmlBom.zip && unzip InteractiveHtmlBom.zip
RUN export INTERACTIVE_HTML_BOM_NO_DISPLAY=""
RUN export DISPLAY=10.0
Then I run:
xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-args "-screen 0 1024x768x24" python3 /InteractiveHtmlBom/generate_interactive_bom.py --dest-dir self.bom_dir --highlight-pin1 --no-browser --extra-fields Description,INFO,LCSC,DIGIKEY --name-format navtrack-rev-2-interactive_bom.html /source/navtrack-rev2/navtrack-rev2.kicad_pcb
and I get: Unable to access the X Display, is $DISPLAY set properly?
I’m calling the command above from python. The thing is, I’ve tried a bunch of things and can’t get rid of this error. Any pointers?
If you use INTERACTIVE_HTML_BOM_NO_DISPLAY then there is no need to run xvfb. The reason you get the error is most likely because the $DISLPAY is 10.0 and you ask xvfb to pick auto server number which is unlikely to be 10.0.
Here’s a few things to get you on the right track:
- You can install ibom with
pip install InteractiveHtmlBom, that will generate an executablegenerate_interactive_bommost likely in~/.local/binor wherever pip places package binaries on your distro. - Use
INTERACTIVE_HTML_BOM_NO_DISPLAY=1, don’t leave it empty. TRUE or YES or anything else will work too. You don’t need xvfb if you set this variable. - (Optional) If you are calling from python and install from pip you can avoid spawning a process and directly call into ibom main
It will allow you more direct control of the config, custom logging and you won’t even need the env variable since you will be bypassing the dialog stuff.
Awesome, that did it!
Thanks!
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Hi,
while this pluging wonderfully worked for KiCAD versions up to 8. In the latest version (I am currently running 8.0.2 on Linux), we encountered cases of parts that are treated as excluded from BOM while they are not excluded at all - they are drawn correctly but they are missing on the BOM list. I was not able to exactly reproduce this yet - the parts that are missing on one board are OK on another and vice versa. Did the rules for the part exclusion changed?
Nothing changed except for support of new in kicad 8 DNP attribute.
I would suggest checking attributes of symbols/footprints that you find are missing in the bom and checking the settings that you generate the bom with.
I finally had some time and analyzed the parts what are excluded - the culprit is really the DNP field (the one selected as a DNP name in the config) - in the excluded part, this field was not really empty but it contained a single space (" "), so the code that checked them for presence found them present. I fixed it by removing the offending space (replacing " " for “” in board file). I am not sure how the space got there, maybe its some relic from older versions of our libraries. But I think that checking the DNP field not just for presence but also for non-whitespace contents would be nice.
Hi,
@qu1ck and the other developers, your plugin is really great! Easy to configure and results are really nice and practical.
I’m trying to automate my process using CLI.
That is handy but I didn’t find how to use the ibom.config.ini file as input. I found a workaround by using the --show-dialog option and press “generate” but it is not ideal.
Is there a better way?
Thanks.
AdriZ
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There is a related feature request Using local config file with CLI mode · Issue #368 · openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom · GitHub
Current workaround is to write a shell script that captures the configs you want as flags for the CLI (every option has corresponding cli flag).
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Something along the lines of
#!/bin/bash
/path/to/generate_interactive_bom.py --your-flags-here "$@"
Pass file name to it like my_ibom_wrapper.sh /path/to/board.kicad_pcb and it will automatically pass the flags along with the file to ibom.
OK. Thank you.
I was actually thinking of the script to convert the .ini file in a list of flags for the CLI.
You could write a little program for that but you shouldn’t have to unless you have lots of options that are not default. You only have to specify flags that you changed.
Indeed, thanks a lot.
Is it possible to use IBOM (or the data in the html file) to create a placement (CPL) file? I have an IBOM and I’d like to generate files for JLPCB assembly.
Yes, but with a bunch of caveats. There is layer, position, angle info in the data, look at the format. You could extract it from the html file directly and decompress the pcbdata struct or you can manually copy from browser dev tools (pcbdata variable in global namespace will be already unpacked).
But you need to take care about what you include in your cpl file (most manufacturers want smt footpritns only or at least separate, ibom does not care about smt/smd distinction) what coordinates offset should you use.
And most importantly you need to make sure it was generated from kicad project, not from something else because I can only guarantee that bounding box center and angle is correct in case of kicad, not other tools. Even then, rotation angle of the footprint is not always the same as rotation from the reel that cpl files are expected to have but that is not specific to kicad or ibom.
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I thought this was a built in feature, but apparently not.
This script is good. How can I add columns, my version has only basics, and not for instance Manufacturer, Manufacturers code and so on.
I have not read all 387 messages, and I probably wont.
Add your fields in eeschema and update pcb. Then those fields will appear in extra fields list in ibom config window.
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I think I said this already, but this script is good. Thank you. Too bad my libraries are messy.
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