Possible to filter messages in rxplot?

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asked 2012-03-07 04:30:39 -0500

Asomerville
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updated 2012-03-07 04:31:06 -0500

I'm stuck using a message type that was perhaps poorly designed in that it's been multiplexed. That is to say several different joints are using the same message, but filling out a different joint index. I can't change the message unfortunately, but still need to work with it.

Is it possible to use rxplot to plot the information in such messages? I would have to basically set up some sort of conditional plotting.

I'm guessing this is not possible and my best option is to write a little translator node to convert the messages into either different topics or one that aggregates. But figured I'd ask anyway.

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answered 2012-03-07 05:24:52 -0500

mrtc

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updated 2012-03-07 05:29:21 -0500

You could also pipe data with a filter using rostopic like so (one line):

rostopic echo --filter "int(m.header.stamp.secs) % 3 == 0" /imu_data/orientation/x | rostopic pub bar std_msgs/Float64

This example just publishes messages with a timestamp divisible by 3 to bar, but you can put any python expression there (such as to filter by your joint index) and then use: