Honeybee

Honeybee is an integrated visualization and diagnosis tool for robotics, available in the browser and as a desktop app on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

It helps robotics teams visualize, debug, and analyze logs and live telemetry through a rich set of panels and tools.

Availability and Access

• The source code of Honeybee is publicly available.
• Running the app from source requires access to private npm packages, so it does not work out-of-the-box outside our organization.
• To try Honeybee, visit our hosted version at coscene.cn, or download the desktop app
  • Linux ARM64
  • Linux AMD64
  • Windows ARM64
  • Windows AMD64
  • Mac Universal
• Internal contributors can follow the setup section below to prepare a development environment.

Supported development environments: Linux, Windows, macOS

Dependencies:

• Node.js V22.12.0+
• Cursor / Visual Studio Code – Recommended

Setup

1. Clone the repository.
2. Enable Corepack and install dependencies:

corepack enable
yarn install

3. Start the target you want to work on:

# Web app
yarn web:serve

# Desktop app (run in two terminals)
yarn desktop:serve
yarn desktop:start

# Storybook
yarn storybook

For advanced desktop debugging across different machines or VMs on the same network:

yarn desktop:serve --host 192.168.xxx.yyy
yarn dlx electron@13.0.0-beta.13 .webpack

Common commands

yarn run            # list available commands
yarn build:packages # build TypeScript packages
yarn lint           # lint and auto-fix
yarn lint:ci        # CI-style linting without auto-fix
yarn test           # run all tests
yarn test:watch     # run tests in watch mode

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution and localization guidelines.

⭐ Credits

Honeybee originally began as a fork of Foxglove Studio, an open-source project developed by Foxglove.