dheera/rosshow

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1145 stars · 97 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

rosshow is a Python CLI tool that visualizes ROS and ROS2 topics directly in the terminal using Unicode Braille or ASCII art. It renders sensor messages like images, point clouds, laser scans, IMU data, GPS fixes, and numeric time series without needing rviz or port forwarding.

Use cases

• debug robot sensor topics over ssh without rviz
• visualize ros topics in terminal
• view point cloud data from velodyne in terminal
• plot laser scan messages over ssh
• see camera image topics without port forwarding
• render occupancy grid maps in terminal
• plot imu and gps sensor data from a robot

When to choose

• you ssh into robots and need quick sensor debugging without rviz or X forwarding
• you work with ROS1 or ROS2 and want lightweight terminal-based topic visualization
• your terminal only supports ASCII and you still need to see sensor data
• you want to inspect std_msgs numeric streams as time series plots

When to avoid

• you need full 3D visualization, transforms, or rich rviz features
• you use custom message types beyond std_msgs and sensor_msgs
• you need to record or analyze topic data rather than just eyeball it
• you are not working in a ROS ecosystem

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

data-visualization developer-tools terminal-ui robotics developer-tools data-visualization python cli ros ros2 sensor-debugging ascii-art unicode-braille terminal-visualization robotics-debugging debugging command-line linux

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