As I continue to build out my observatory and add devices, I'm getting swamped by all the gadgets that use FTDI serial devices (or something equivalent) yielding an arbitrary "ttyUSB??" device assignment. I know how to use udev in Linux to create symlinks by serial number (which many do not have) or by physical port number, but is there a way to tell the various INDI drivers to look at a specific device name (/dev/focuser, for example, being a symlink to ttyUSB2)? Or is there some other way to disambiguate these devices so that everything works properly? My workaround is to add more Pi's, NUC's, etc. for these gadgets, and that just gets old, and somewhat klunky!

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