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like done in https://github.com/EastEriq/LAST_XerxesMount/tree/eventCallbackQuery

self-note: find a way to store in the class also some sort of unique identifier, in case more than one focuser are connected to the same computer. Notably via USB, the numbering of the serial port is dynamic and arbitrary. In that case identifying the serial # oft the FTDI chip may help.

If the focuser was connected to a true serial port, numbering would be fixed. If it was connected with a serial cable, but via an USB-232(TTL) dongle, ditto as above.

When more than one serial device is present on a host, and some serial ports have been connected to, in inst.CelestronFocuser.connect(), fopen() causes a warning like RXTX fhs_lock() Error: opening lock file: /var/lock/LCK..ttyACM0: File exists to be written on stderr, for every OTHER serial port of the system which is already in use, i.e. not for the specific port which we are opening. Possibly this it is a bug of the deprecated serial object, which might be resolved by the newly recommended serialport. I'm a little wary of transitioning the code (there is not much to do, but no fopen(), delete() instead of fclose(), read()/write() instead of fprintf()/freadf()), because serialport has been introduced only in v2019b and I'm not sure whether to force the dependency on a most recent version of Matlab only. Anyway, as for a bug this looks at the moment innocuous.