https://github.com/osrf/rvizweb

RVizWeb: RViz on the browser
https://github.com/osrf/rvizweb

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RVizWeb: RViz on the browser

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/osrf/rvizweb
• Owner: osrf
• Created: 2018-11-09T20:31:23.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-11-15T16:05:49.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T21:05:00.954Z (6 months ago)
• Language: HTML
• Size: 17.6 KB
• Stars: 283
• Watchers: 19
• Forks: 59
• Open Issues: 24
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# RVizWeb - RViz, but on your browser

RVizWeb provides a convenient way of building and launching a web application

with features similar to [RViz](https://github.com/ros-visualization/rviz).

This project makes use of the following:

* @jstnhuang's [ros-rviz](https://github.com/jstnhuang/ros-rviz) web component

* @tork-a's [roswww](https://github.com/tork-a/roswww) web server

* @RobotWebTools's [rosbridge_server](https://github.com/RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite)

  and [tf2_web_republisher](https://github.com/RobotWebTools/tf2_web_republisher)

## Quickstart

1. Create a directory for your catkin workspace:

        mkdir -p ~/ws/src

        cd ~/ws/src

        git clone https://github.com/osrf/rvizweb/

1. You will need the LTS version of Node.js. Add the PPA so that `rosdep` can fetch it:

        curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo bash -

1. Install ROS and system dependencies (assumes you already have ROS core):

        cd ~/ws

        rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y

1. Build and install your workspace; this will run `bower` and `polymer-cli`

   to generate and install the site:

        cd ~/ws

        catkin_make install

1. Launch RVizWeb:

        . ~/ws/install/setup.bash

        roslaunch rvizweb rvizweb.launch

1. Open the site on the browser

    http://localhost:8001/rvizweb/www/index.html

1. Let's try an example display to check everything is working. On the UI, click on the `+` and choose "Markers".

1. Now open a new terminal and publish the following marker:

        rostopic pub /visualization_marker visualization_msgs/Marker '{header: {frame_id: "base_link"}, id: 1, type: 1, action: 0, pose: {position: {x: 0., y: 0.2, z: 0.}, orientation: {x: 0.3, y: 0.2, z: 0.52, w: 0.85}}, scale: {x: 0.2, y: 0.3, z: 0.1}, color: {r: 1., g: 0., b: 1., a: 0.3}, lifetime: 50000000000}'

1. You should see a pink box show up on the site.

## Viewing URDF

By default, RVizWeb will serve the `share` folder of all the ROS packages that

are currently installed in the system to the following address by default:

    http://localhost:8001/