Required Properties

Name

{
  ...
  "name": "RAMA WORKS M6-A",
  ...
}

The name property denotes the name of the keyboard being defined.

Vendor & Product ID

{
  ...
  "vendorId": "0x5241",
  "productId": "0x006a",
  ...
}

The productId property corresponds to the usb product id. This combined with the vendorId is what is used by VIA to identify the keyboard when it is plugged in.

Lighting

{
  ...
  "lighting": "none",
  ...
}

The lighting property can either a preset: none, qmk_backlight, qmk_rgblight, qmk_backlight_rgblight, wt_rgb_backlight, wt_mono_backlight or for more advanced usage an object that extends one of those presets.

Use qmk_backlight if the firmware enables QMK's core backlight feature with BACKLIGHT_ENABLE=yes.

Use qmk_rgblight if the firmware enables QMK's core RGB Lighting feature with RGBLIGHT_ENABLE=yes.

Use qmk_backlight_rgblight if the firmware enables both.

Use of wt_rgb_backlight and wt_mono_backlight is for keyboards that use the lighting code in /keyboards/wilba_tech and not intended to be a generalized interface to other custom lighting implementations. A generalized interface is being developed. Keyboards that do not use QMK's core lighting implementations should wait for the generalized interface instead of implementing the current interface.

Matrix

{
  ...
  "matrix": {"rows": 1, "cols": 6},
  ...
}

The matrix property defines how many rows and columns the PCB's switch matrix uses. This must match the MATRIX_ROWS and MATRIX_COLS symbols in the QMK firmware.

Layouts

{
  ...
  "layouts": {
    ...
    "keymap": [
      [{"c": "#505557", "t": "#d9d7d7", "a": 7}, "0,0", "0,1", "0,2"],
      ["0,3", "0,4", "0,5"]
    ]
    ...
  }
  ...
}

The keymap property corresponds to the KLE json exported by KLE and has the switch row, col defined in the top-left legends and optionally the group number, option number defined in the bottom-right legends. The KLE can support up to 3 different colored keys which is used to identify the alpha, modifier and accent keys which VIA will automatically apply a theme to.