Inspired by py-trees-blackboard-watcher, ros-topics-watcher is a wrap on top of rostopic echo tool, that prints out values only if they change. In addition it also allows subscribing to multiple topics and multiple fields/attributes of the message.
$ ros-topics-watcher -l
Published topics:
* /foo [std_msgs/Header] 1 publisher
* /bar [std_msgs/Header] 1 publisher
* /rosout_agg [rosgraph_msgs/Log] 1 publisher
$ ros-topics-watcher /foo/seq
/foo/seq: 0
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$ ros-topics-watcher /foo/seq /bar/stamp/nsecs
/foo/seq: 0
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/bar/stamp/nsecs: 34739017
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/bar/stamp/nsecs: 134696006
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/bar/stamp/nsecs: 234863996
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/bar/stamp/nsecs: 334772109
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/bar/stamp/nsecs: 434758901
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/bar/stamp/nsecs: 534750938
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/bar/stamp/nsecs: 634763956
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$ ros-topics-watcher /color[r,g]
/color[r, g]:
g: 0.0
r: 0.0
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$ ros-topics-watcher header[seq,stamp.secs]
/header[seq, stamp.secs]:
seq: 0
stamp.secs: 1603641830
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/header[seq, stamp.secs]:
seq: 0
stamp.secs: 1603641831
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/header[seq, stamp.secs]:
seq: 0
stamp.secs: 1603641832
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/header[seq, stamp.secs]:
seq: 0
stamp.secs: 1603641833
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