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Repository Summary
| Description | Insight is a minimalist GUI alternative to rqt. It is a GTK4-based tool for exploring ROS2 topics, services, and messages, featuring the GNOME Adwaita style. |
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/julianmueller/insight_gui.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | jazzy |
| Last Updated | 2025-10-06 |
| Dev Status | DEVELOPED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| insight_gui | 0.1.3 |
README
Insight - a minimalist GUI for ROS2
Insight is a minimalist GUI alternative to rqt. It is a GTK4-based tool for exploring ROS2 topics, services, and messages, featuring the GNOME Adwaita style.
Features
Nodes
### Node List Page
- Browse all active ROS2 nodes
- Group nodes by namespace
- Search and filter nodes
- View hidden nodes
### Node Info Page
- View detailed node information
- Display node publishers, subscribers
- Show service clients and servers and action clients and servers
- Show Node parameters and jump to the parameter edit page
Topics
### Topic List Page
- Browse all available ROS2 topics
- Group topics by namespace
- Search and filter topics
- View topic types and hidden topics
### Topic Info Page
- View detailed topic information
- Display topic interface types and their definition
- Show publishers and subscribers
### Topic Publisher Page
- Publish messages to ROS2 topics
- Edit the published message as YAML/JSON/CSV
- Publish once or as continuous stream
### Topic Subscriber Page
- Subscribe to ROS2 topics
- Receive messages as YAML/JSON/CSV
- Message history and filtering
- Get only one message or the continuous stream
Services
### Service List Page
- Browse all available ROS2 services
- Group services by namespace
- Search and filter services
- View service types and hidden services
### Service Info
- View detailed service information
- Show service providers
- Display service request/response interface type and definition
- Quickly jump to the service call page
### Service Call Page
- Call ROS2 services
- Edit the service request as YAML/JSON/CSV
- View service responses
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