# lichtblick-suite/lichtblick

Lichtblick is an integrated visualization and diagnosis tool for robotics, available in your browser or as a desktop app on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Repository: https://github.com/lichtblick-suite/lichtblick
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lichtblick
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: mcap, robotics, visualization
Last push: 2026-09-02T02:44:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 96, longevity 67
- inputs: {"age_days": 945, "days_push": 0, "days_rel": 27, "gap_med": 19, "n_releases_24m": 32}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1093, forks 734 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:14.397464+00:00)

## What it is
Lichtblick is an integrated visualization and diagnosis tool for robotics, usable in the browser or as a desktop app on Linux, Windows, and macOS. It supports MCAP data playback and inspection for analyzing robot sensor and message data.

## Use cases
- visualize robot sensor data from mcap files
- debug and diagnose robotics messages
- play back recorded robot logs
- inspect ros topics and plots
- view lidar and camera data streams
- analyze robotics data in the browser

## When to choose
- you need a free, open-source robotics visualization and diagnosis tool
- you work with MCAP files or ROS data and want desktop or browser access
- you want a Foxglove Studio alternative for robot data inspection

## When to avoid
- you need a lightweight headless data-processing pipeline rather than an interactive GUI
- your data formats are unsupported by its robotics-focused plugins

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: data-visualization, developer-tools, gui
- domain: robotics, developer-tools, data-visualization
- platform: windows, browser
- tags: mcap, robotics-visualization, diagnostics, ros, foxglove-alternative, desktop-app, linux, macos, docker, typescript

## Member repositories
- lichtblick-suite/lichtblick (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:14.397464+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:53:04.733078+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lichtblick-suite/lichtblick (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:14.397464+00:00, sha 776a18fbe224)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.