Feature request: Import QMK style JSON

[peterjc]

There are tools like https://github.com/nickcoutsos/keymap-layout-tools/tree/main/kicad-to-layout which is online at https://nickcoutsos.github.io/keymap-layout-tools/ to turn a keyboard PCB design in KiCad into a QMK stlye JSON file. Here's a screenshot showing the Corne layout:

You can then turn that QMK style JSON into a ZMK Style DTSI file using https://zmk-physical-layout-converter.streamlit.app/ when writing ZMK Firmware with ZMK Studio support.

However, I am not aware of anything similar for making a KLE style JSON file, for use with writing Vial firmware.

If KLE-NG could import these QMK style JSON files, it would make writing Vial firmware with a nice reprentation of the physical layout much easier 🤞

[adamws]

This is doable, I already support QMK->KLE conversion in kbplacer https://github.com/adamws/kicad-kbplacer/blob/eca593255325d5f729d242d923f1b03da5d99bcd/kbplacer/kle_serial.py#L549

(kbplacer) aws:kicad-kbplacer/ (develop✗) $ python -m kbplacer.kle_serial -i /home/aws/git/qmk/qmk_firmware/keyboards/0_sixty/info.json --inform QMK --outform KLE_RAW  --text
["0,0", "0,1", "0,2", "0,3", "0,4", "0,5", "0,6", "0,7", "0,8", "0,9", "0,10", "0,11"],
["1,0", "1,1", "1,2", "1,3", "1,4", "1,5", "1,6", "1,7", "1,8", "1,9", "1,10", "1,11"],
["2,0", "2,1", "2,2", "2,3", "2,4", "2,5", "2,6", "2,7", "2,8", "2,9", "2,10", "2,11"],
["3,0", "3,1", "3,2", "3,3", "3,4", "3,5", "3,6", "3,7", "3,8", "3,9", "3,10", "3,11"],
["4,0", "4,1", "4,2", "4,3", "4,4", {"x": -1, "w": 2, "w2": 1}, "4,5\n\n\n0,1", {"x": -1}, "4,5\n\n\n0,2", {"x": -1, "w": 2, "w2": 1}, "4,6\n\n\n0,0", {"x": -1, "w": 2, "w2": 1}, "4,6\n\n\n0,1", {"x": -2}, "4,6\n\n\n0,2", "4,7", "4,8", "4,9", "4,10", "4,11"]

so it's just a matter of simple porting