Only released in EOL distros:   indigo kinetic

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Overview

ros_explorer is a web-based utility for browsing the ROS graph.

• See all the nodes, topics, services, and parameters.
• Click on one to see what other nodes, topics, or services they are connected to.
• See topic and service types.
• Add/edit/delete parameters.

Running

ROS Explorer is just a web page, so there is nothing to install or build. You will need rosbridge_server, however.

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-rosbridge-server

Clone the code to your catkin workspace, or install it with:

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-ros-explorer

Then, run:

# If you do not already have a websocket server running:
roslaunch ros_explorer ros_explorer_websocket.launch

# If you are already running a websocket server for other purposes:
roslaunch ros_explorer ros_explorer.launch

This will create a server that serves the website on http://localhost:8595. It should also open the webpage in your default web browser automatically (using the xdg-open command). If this does not work, you can just visit http://localhost:8595 manually.

Tips

• By default, the websocket URL is determined from the host the webpage is being served from. For example, if your server is configured to serve the webpage from robot.company.com, then it will assume the websocket URL is robot.company.com:9090.
• You can scroll horizontally to view names that have been cut off by holding Shift while scrolling.