plotjuggler-ros-plugins
- Software
- Middleware
- Tool
ROS plugins for PlotJuggler, adding ROS and ROS2 support to the plotting tool through external plugins such as a rosbag loader and a live topic subscriber.
Made by PlotJuggler.
Source on GitHub: github.com/PlotJuggler/plotjuggler-ros-plugins (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 9cb0b59 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- AGPL-3.0-only (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (AGPL-3.0-only) at commit 9cb0b59 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
Copyleft: Modified source must be published, also when it runs as a service.
What it does
- DataLoader plugin for rosbags supporting ROS and ROS2.
- Topic subscriber plugin that plots live ROS and ROS2 topics.
- Logs/rosout visualizer for ROS only.
- Re-publisher similar to rosbag play, for ROS only.
- Can be installed from Debian packages with apt, or built from source in a catkin workspace with colcon.
- From version 2.3 onward the library supports only ROS2.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 9cb0b59.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 21 Apr 2026 on main
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.