Vuer ROS¶

Vuer ROS is a CLI plugin for visualizing ROS2 data and MCAP bag files with vuer.

Installation¶

# Core package
pip install vuer-ros

# With visualization support
pip install 'vuer-ros[viz]'

# With MCAP support
pip install 'vuer-ros[mcap]'

# Full installation
pip install 'vuer-ros[full]'

Quick Start¶

# Visualize an MCAP file directly
vuer visualize --mcap recording.mcap

# Start a live visualization server
vuer live-server

# Stream MCAP playback to live-server
vuer playback --mcap recording.mcap

# Extract data from MCAP files
vuer demcap /path/to/recording.mcap

Supported Message Types¶

  • RGB Images: sensor_msgs/msg/Image, sensor_msgs/msg/CompressedImage

  • Depth Images: 16UC1, 32FC1 encodings

  • IMU Data: sensor_msgs/msg/Imu

  • Transforms: tf2_msgs/msg/TFMessage

  • Odometry: nav_msgs/msg/Odometry

  • Joint States: sensor_msgs/msg/JointState

  • LiDAR: Point cloud data

Commands¶

API Reference¶