Ubuntu 14.04 build (Semaphore):

ROS Indigo build (Travis):

QT5 based application to display time series in plots. This is under heavy development.

To understand what PlotJuggler can do for you, take a look to the following video.

PlotJuggler: a desktop application to plot time series

Clone the repository as usual:

  git clone https://github.com/facontidavide/PlotJuggler.git

The only binary dependency that you need installed in your system is Qt5. On Ubuntu the debians can be installed with the command:

sudo apt-get -y install qtbase5-dev libqt5svg5-dev

On Fedora:

sudo dnf install qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel

Then compile using cmake (qmake is NOT supported):

 mkdir build; cd build
 cmake ..
 make
 sudo make install

Note: the plugins need to be installed in the same folder of the executable or in /usr/local/lib/PlotJuggler/.

If you use CATKIN to build this project, the ROS related plugins will be automatically included into the compilation. Both the executable and the plugins will be created in devel/lib/plotjuggler (the address relative to the catkin workspace).

To run the application, use the command:

rosrun plotjuggler PlotJuggler

Alternatively, just execute the binary PlotJuggler.

A mandatory dependency is the package: https://github.com/facontidavide/ros_type_introspection

IMPORTANT: there is a critical bug in version 0.3.x of ros_type_introspection. Use version 0.4.3 or later.

You can easily install the Indigo, Jade or Kinetic package with the command:

   sudo apt-get install ros-XXXX-ros-type-introspection