Hello every one,
I have some issue with the plugin KiCad Revision Inspector (KiRI). It’s a nice looking tool to show the differences between too versions of a PCB and their schematic which uploaded on git(GitHub).
I Use KiCad on Windows and try to set it up the plugin as described in the instruction via the WSL 2.
The plugin is installed and works. It shows the webpage that looks correct, but the Problem is that it don’t show any pictures at the webpage that it creates.
I try something with asking theAI and find out that the program should be generating some SVG image files, but in the directories there a no image files.
I’m not so highly familiar with the WSL or general with programming and has no idea what can I set wrong or could forget to set up. I tug all the steps in the Instructions. I try the command kiri --debug [KICAD_PROJECT_FILE] to see some debugging stuff and it shows that the Kicad version is 7.1, but I use the newest version 9. …, I don’t know exactly, shows that that something is set wrong, and it is trying to use some commands for older Kicad version?
Can someone help me ?
Thanks on every person in advance
Have you tried asking at the plugin’s Github page? GitHub - leoheck/kiri: Kiri is a visual tool designed for reviewing schematics and layouts of KiCad projects that are version-controlled with Git.
I think the main author of the plugin hasn’t been seen for a while here but you could try a PM to them.
@retiredfeline is right, the Github page is probably the best place for this kind of question. But! I ran into the same issue you’re describing and found that it was due to the KiRI installer using an older version of KiCad in WSL. Run these three commands in WSL, then try KiRI again, and it should work for you (at least it did for me).
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kicad/kicad-9.0-releases
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kicad
Cheers!
I don’t know if it will work on Windows, but it seems that someone else has created a tool like this and released it on github.