diff --git a/files/ansible-playbooks/sot-updater.yml b/files/ansible-playbooks/sot-updater.yml
index 209213c..8daee08 100644
--- a/files/ansible-playbooks/sot-updater.yml
+++ b/files/ansible-playbooks/sot-updater.yml
@@ -217,6 +217,23 @@
             | trim
           }}
 
+    - name: Dev1 | Normalize banner (simple literal transformation)
+      delegate_to: localhost
+      set_fact:
+        dev1_fw_clean: >-
+          {{
+            (
+              dev1_banner.stdout | default('') | trim
+              # cut off anything after the pipe
+              | regex_replace('\\s*\\|.*$', '')
+              # replace first space before 'rev' with a dash
+              | regex_replace('\\s+rev\\s+', '-r')
+            )
+            | default('', true)
+            | trim
+          }}
+
+
     - name: Publish Dev1 fw_version
       delegate_to: localhost
       uri: