Commands
You can see available commands when running QEDA CLI with --help option:
qeda --help
| Command | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Add a component entry to the configuration file (with preloading from the remote repository if needed) | qeda add capacitor/c0603 | |
| Set/get configuration parameter (see Configuration Parameters) | qeda config generator.type kicad | |
| Generate a library for specified EDA according to the configuration file | qeda generate mylib | |
| Load a component description from the remote repository | qeda load capacitor/c0603 |
add
Firstly this command looks for COMPONENT's YAML-description in the qedalib directory (relatively to the current working directory). In case of its absence the command tries to download a component description from the remote repository. If the download is successful, this leads to caching this description file to the qedalib directory, the to add a corresponding entry to the .qeda.yaml configuration file. When called for the second time, the command will use the cached file instead of loading it from the remote repository.
If neither the local qedalib directory nor the remote repository contains the corresponding component description, the command will return the error.
See also: load
config
This command allows to set or get a configuration parameter of the electronic component library to be generated. To set the PARAM you need to provide the VALUE as a second argument. To get the parameter value one should omit the VALUE argument.
See Configuration Parameters for full available parameters list.
generate
The final command which generates a library of electronic components to be used in EDA according to the settings found in the .qeda.yaml configuration file.
load
This command loads and caches a component description from the remote repository regardless of its presence in the qedalib directory without adding it to the .qeda.yaml configuration file.
See also: add