diff --git a/files/ansible-playbooks/sot-updater.yml b/files/ansible-playbooks/sot-updater.yml
index 7ae8b7f..5dc61a1 100644
--- a/files/ansible-playbooks/sot-updater.yml
+++ b/files/ansible-playbooks/sot-updater.yml
@@ -52,17 +52,17 @@
     # ***** FIXED: Strictly extract ONLY "X.Y.Z rev NNNN" from the banner *****
     # This grabs the first occurrence of "<digits>.<digits>.<digits> rev <digits>"
     # and ignores any trailing timestamp like " | 2025-09-25 07:06:10".
-    - name: Dev1 | Extract exact 'X.Y.Z rev NNNN' (no timestamp)
+    - name: Dev1 | Extract 'X.Y.Z rev NNNN' by removing trailing timestamp
       delegate_to: localhost
       set_fact:
         dev1_fw_clean: >-
           {{
             (dev1_banner.stdout | default('') | trim)
-            | regex_search('(?i)[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\s+rev\\s+[0-9]+')
-            | default('')
+            | regex_replace('\\s*\\|.*$', '')   # drop " | 2025-09-25 ..." and anything after
           }}
 
 
+
     - name: Dev1 | Debug normalized fw string to be published
       delegate_to: localhost
       debug:
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
                 "inscope_device": (ansible_hostname | default(inventory_hostname)),
                 "task_name": "custom_field_set",
                 "task_add1": "indoor_fwver",
-                "task_result": indoor_fw_norm
+                "task_result": indoor_fw_norm     # ← FIXED
               } | to_json),
               "payload_encoding": "string"
             } | to_json