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Rosight

ROS + sight. A keyboard-driven terminal cockpit for ROS 2.

Browse the live ROS 2 graph — messages, nodes, services, actions, parameters, TF, bags, interfaces — and live-plot any numeric field, all from one screen without a mouse. Built for SSH, tmux, robot consoles.

Messages tab

What's inside

Nine tabs, one screen, all keyboard:

  • Messages — topic list, live hz/bw/jitter, message-tree drill-down, auto-QoS subscription.
  • Nodes — publishers, subscribers, service / action endpoints per node.
  • Services — discovery + types (call form planned).
  • Actions — discovery + types (goal monitor planned).
  • Params — per-node parameters, get / set, type-aware.
  • Plot — multi-series live chart of any numeric leaf via plotext.
  • TF — auto-built frame tree from /tf and /tf_static.
  • Bags — ros2 bag record / play / info with stop hints.
  • Interfaces — browse every msg / srv / action definition on the system.

Why Rosight

  • Runs anywhere a terminal does. SSH, tmux, robot console, phone via Termius.
  • Auto-QoS. Sensor topics (BEST_EFFORT, TRANSIENT_LOCAL …) are matched by negotiating against every publisher — no manual profile fiddling.
  • Runtime domain switch. :domain 5 reconnects on a new ROS_DOMAIN_ID without restarting.
  • Theme persistence. Pick a Textual theme via Ctrl+P; it survives restarts.
  • Stable when ROS isn't there. The package imports cleanly without rclpy, so you can run unit tests and tweak the UI on cloud hosts. Live panels light up the moment a workspace is sourced.

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