Revision history [back]

Did you set the 'Reliability Policy' in RViz correctly? In the 'Displays' panel, you have some information about the RViz camera plugin. One of those is the topic that you want to use. If you click on the little arrow on the left, you get more options:

You need to set the Reliability Policy from 'Reliable' to 'Best Effort' for the image to appear.

Also, why do you not simply use robot_state_publisher to publish the links of the robot? It would be a lot easier, and less likely to cause issues.