Rviz2 not showing lidar points

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Hello here,

I'm new to ROS and ROS2, had some time long ago with a turtle bot and did some maze stuff but basically know nothing.

I just finished the beginner part of ROS2 tutorial and currently trying to pop up a lidar, a cheap lfcd2.

I managed to read the serial and installed the official driver and packages. The publishers looks fine to me, since I can see data in /scan topic.

Then I tried to visualize it using Rviz2, but the points doesn't show up. I tried to debug it but not sure whats wrong....

I found some solution to the missing tf issue using

ros2 run tf2_ros static_transform_publisher 1 2 3 0.5 0.1 -1.0 foo bar

It looks like works and my issue on location is gone.

Everything seems fine except my points still shows

Showing [0] points from [0] messages

and topic shows okay.

I then went to check some other people's example, where it should display number of msg, not 'okay'

I can't post photo since I don't have enough points... but here's a part of the /scan data:

header:
  stamp:
    sec: 1600816175
    nanosec: 408355311
  frame_id: laser
angle_min: 0.0
angle_max: 6.2657318115234375
angle_increment: 0.01745329238474369
time_increment: 2.990000029967632e-05
scan_time: 0.0
range_min: 0.11999999731779099
range_max: 3.5
ranges:
- 0.0
- 0.2290000021457672
- 0.0
- 0.0
- 0.0
- 0.0
- 1.0720000267028809
- 0.6299999952316284
- 0.6299999952316284
- 0.5460000038146973
- 0.5389999747276306
- 0.5329999923706055
- 0.5410000085830688
- 0.5619999766349792
- 0.3529999852180481
- 0.38600000739097595
- 0.4300000071525574
- 0.4970000088214874
- 0.4909999966621399
- 0.0
- 0.5519999861717224
- 0.5509999990463257
- 0.0
- 0.9210000038146973
- 0.0
- 0.0
- 0.0
- 0.699999988079071
- '...'
intensities:
- 49.0
- 5890.0
- 49.0
- 49.0
- 48.0
- 87.0
- 1509.0
- 3279.0
- 3819.0
- 1305.0
- 2506.0
- 3994.0
- 4187.0
- 3265.0
- 317.0
- 1141.0
- 431.0
- 1263.0
- 1545.0
- 4249.0
- 918.0
- 1811.0
- 46.0
- 2475.0
- 112.0
- 40.0
- 106.0
- 6847.0
- 108.0
- 53.0
- 1880.0
- 4956.0
- 4520.0
- 764.0
- 2983.0
- 4766.0