ROS plugins for PlotJuggler

PlotJuggler works great with ROS, but it is not itself a “ROS” application.

ROS is supported through external plugins that can be found in this repository.

Existing Plugins

• DataLoader for rosbags (ROS / ROS2).
• ROS topic subscriber (ROS / ROS2).
• Logs/rosout visualizer (ROS only).
• Re-publisher similar to rosbag play (ROS only).

Install with Debians

Install PlotJuggler and its ROS plugins with:

sudo apt install ros-${ROS_DISTRO}-plotjuggler-ros

or, if have ROS2 installed:

ros2 run plotjuggler plotjuggler

How to compile PlotJuggler from source

Create a catkin workspace and clone the repositories:

 mkdir -p ~/ws_plotjuggler/src
 cd ~/ws_plotjuggler/src
 git clone https://github.com/PlotJuggler/plotjuggler_msgs.git
 git clone https://github.com/facontidavide/PlotJuggler.git
 git clone https://github.com/PlotJuggler/plotjuggler-ros-plugins.git

Now, it is time to compile:

cd ~/ws_plotjuggler
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -y
colcon build

For ROS (1) users

From version 2.3+, this library will support only ROS2 (Hubmle or older)

Changelog for package plotjuggler_ros

2.2.0 (2025-05-21)

• jazzy+
• Fixing wstring ROS2 data type, and import rename for latest release build compatibility (#86) Co-authored-by: Davide Faconti <<davide.faconti@gmail.com>>
• Update ros2_parser.cpp
• Fix detection of ROS 2 Humble (#82) Detecting the ROS distribution based on the content of AMENT_PREFIX_PATH does not always work. For example, when using the Nix package manager, paths in AMENT_PREFIX_PATH could never match the currently used pattern. It's better to use ROS_DISTRO variable for this purpose. This should (I think) work everywhere.
• Contributors: Ben Cohen, Davide Faconti, Michal Sojka

2.1.1 (2024-02-19)

• critical bug fix in ROS1 plugins
• Contributors: Davide Faconti

2.1.0 (2024-02-04)

• preparing for release 3.9
• Update ros1.yaml
• Add support for compressed rosbags (#77)
• Contributors: Anthony Welte, Davide Faconti

1.7.3 (2023-01-14)

• Fix mapping of multiple pal_statistics topics (#61)
• fix implicit uint8_t -> double narrowing (#42) YES, the standard committee believes this might be narrowing and clang 12 throws this error: > error: non-constant-expression cannot be narrowed from type 'uint8_t' (aka 'unsigned char') to 'double' in initializer list [-Wc++11-narrowing]
• Contributors: Michael Görner, Victor Lopez

1.6.2 (2021-10-21)

• parse a ROSBAG even if some topic types are not recognized
• Update ros2.yaml
• segmentation fault off (#30)
• Contributors: Davide Faconti, simulacrus

1.5.0 (2021-06-20)

• massive changes
  • include consistent timestamp (suggested by \@doisyg )
  • lazy initialization in parsers.
  • reusable Header parser
  • string field added
• add lazy parser inizialization and string field to ROS1
• Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.4.1 (2021-06-18)

• remove obsolate headers
• forget to install launch file for ROS1
• Contributors: Davide Faconti, Kei Okada

1.3.0 (2021-06-12)

• use std::any
• temporary fix for 3.2
• Contributors: Davide Faconti

1.2.0 (2021-06-03)

• fix issue #15 for ROS1 too
• Merge pull request #4 from Tobias-Fischer/patch-1 Fix Windows compilation
• fix bugs related to TopicPublishers (ros2)
• Fix isnan issues on Win
• Fix isnan compilation issue on Win
• Fix double-defined ERROR
• Contributors: Davide Faconti, Tobias Fischer

1.1.1 (2021-05-10)

• Mitigate proble with ros::ok()
• prepare for newer PJ version
• address issue with INT64
• Update README.md
• fix issue #399 and #398
• Contributors: Davide Faconti

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