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rostopic echo only a msg of topic

asked 2016-02-04 10:34:48 -0500

Hossein
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I have a topic containing several messages. How can I use 'rostopic echo' to echo only one message.

For example this is my topic containing the following messages:

Header      hdr
int32       runlevel
int32       sublevel
int32       last_seq
int32[2]    type
int32[6]    pos
float32[18]   ori

and I am just interested to see only message pos on my terminal.

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Is there anyway to decrease the rate of publishing? It's too fast and I can't see them.

Also is there anyway to plot them?

Hossein ( 2016-02-04 13:04:31 -0500 )edit

please update your question, don't post an answer.

MichaelKorn ( 2016-02-04 13:09:55 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-02-04 11:02:44 -0500

MichaelKorn

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updated 2016-02-04 13:41:32 -0500

Regarding to the documentation of rostopic, this should work:

rostopic echo /my_topic/field_name

one complex example for typical tf messages:

rostopic echo /tf/transforms[0]/transform/translation/x

You can change the output rate (e.g. 1sec) with:

watch -n1 rostopic echo /my_topic/field_name

You can plot topics with rqt_plot

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I can confirm that the first version works. I use it frequently.

ahendrix ( 2016-02-04 12:15:12 -0500 )edit

@ahendrix: You are right. I tried it with tf and I failed to take into account that the field "transforms" is an array.

MichaelKorn ( 2016-02-04 13:44:19 -0500 )edit

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