rqt_plot shows up, but doesn't plot any data?

asked 2017-05-31 09:56:41 -0500

thanhvu94 gravatar image

I'm using Arduino to send 6 output analog signals through rosserial_arduino with a rostopic named /sensor_msg1. The custom message type I use has only one component is int16[6] led1.

I want to observe the change of the signal through rqt_plot, but when I run on the commandline rqt_plot /sensor_msg1, the rqt_plot GUI shows up but no data is plotted. There are only a legend mentioning 6 elements of led1 messages. In the commandline, there is a warning also: "libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate".

When I run rostopic list:

pi@pi-desktop:~/catkin_ws$ rostopic list
/diagnostics
/rosout
/rosout_agg
/sensor_msg1

It is weird that when I use rostopic echo, the data is published, or when I tried to do rqt_plot for turtlesim tutorial in ROS website, rqt_plot can plot the position of the turtle anyway.

Can anyone tell me what is the problem and how to fix it?

Thank you.

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will rqt correctly plot any of the sensor_msg1 indices? I.e. does running rqt_plot /sensor_msg1[0] produce what you would expect?

maxsvetlik gravatar image maxsvetlik  ( 2017-05-31 11:39:00 -0500 )edit

As I said, when I run rqt_plot /sensor_msg1/led1[0] instead, the GUI shows up but no line or data is plotted. I don't know if the warning is the reason for this problem?

thanhvu94 gravatar image thanhvu94  ( 2017-05-31 11:53:04 -0500 )edit

I assume you've already checked trouble shooting section of wiki. You may want to share the full output of rostopic echo for the topic you want to plot. And a .bag file helps even more if that's possible.

130s gravatar image 130s  ( 2017-05-31 14:04:43 -0500 )edit
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