rosbag_fancy

rosbag_fancy is a fancy terminal UI frontend for the venerable rosbag tool.

Recording

At the moment, the record command is rosbag_fancy’s main feature. It offers the following advantages over plain rosbag record:

• Live display of statistics per topic, such as number of messages, bandwidth, dropped messages, etc. Never notice after recording that you misspelled a topic name!
• Bash completion for topic names
• Optional per-topic rate limiting

Info

rosbag_fancy also offers an info command similar to rosbag info, which has the same features but is much faster.

Playback

Using rosbag_fancy play <bagfile> you can play bag files interactively. Similar to info, this is much faster than plain rosbag.

As an additional feature, rosbag_fancy play aggregates the tf_static topic over time, so no matter how many tf publishers were active or how much you seek in the file, the static transforms will be kept up-to-date.