1. Welcome

Introducing you to the lichtblick wiki!

Here you will find all the information you need to go through lichtblick, a foxglove studio open-source fork.

Overview

Lichtblick empowers robotics teams to explore, collaborate on, and interpret their robots' data, enabling smarter iterations and faster development.

Workflows

Lichtblick offers a comprehensive suite of developer tools for every stage of robotics development.

Record

• Capture multimodal data using various supported encoding formats (MCAP, ROS 1, ROS 2, Protobuf, etc.).

Ingest

• Transfer recordings from local machines and edge locations into a centralized cloud repository.

Process

• Organize imported data by device, time, and topic.
• Establish retention policies to effectively manage your team’s data storage.
• Set up webhooks for seamless integration with your existing data pipeline.

Visualize

• Stream imported data to Foxglove and external tools like Jupyter Notebooks for in-depth analysis.
• Create panels to gain insights into how your robots perceive, process, and respond.
• Develop shared layouts to streamline visualization and debugging tasks.

Collaborate

• Add metadata and events to logs for improved search and discovery.
• Utilize collective insights to address incidents and investigate root causes efficiently.