Pointcloud2 display set QoS to best effort #1621
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Signed-off-by: Alejandro Hernandez Cordero <[email protected]>
nbbrooks
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I can confirm these changes work!
- build rviz2 from source with the
colcon build --merge-installoption - Add a default Pointcloud2 widget and see the policy now defaults to Best Effort
- Publish an example pointcloud using best effort profile and verify points are visible
- Manually switch widget policy to Reliable to repro old behavior
ros2 topic pub /test_cloud sensor_msgs/msg/PointCloud2 "{header: {frame_id: map}, height: 1, width: 3, fields: [{name: x, offset: 0, datatype: 7, count: 1}, {name: y, offset: 4, datatype: 7, count: 1}, {name: z, offset: 8, datatype: 7, count: 1}], is_bigendian: false, point_step: 12, row_step: 36, data: [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,128,63,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,128,63,0,0,128,63,0,0,0,0], is_dense: true}" --qos-reliability best_effort
simplescreenrecorder-2025-12-06_13.01.27.mp4
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Related with #1616
@nbbrooks do you mind to take a look ?