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So really the say that I solved the problem of the randomly named services was to assign the RVIZ node a name like rosrun rviz rviz __name:=rviz. For some reason RVIZ assigns an anonymous name by default. If you assign the node a name then its services etc. will not have the anonymous unique identifier and will be readily callable with a repeatable name structure.

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