Review on 🔌 StarTech.com Industrial USB 2.0 Hub with ESD & 350W Surge Protection - Mountable - 7-Port Multiport Hub (ST7200USBM) by Justin Anderson

The build quality of this hub is excellent. USB devices require industrial power supplies to power them, and they have a rugged metal housing that can be mounted on a DIN rail. From a software perspective, this hub is a bit of a headache. I'm using a hub on a Pi running Python to monitor a bunch of USB based sensors. The problem with this hub is that when new devices are connected, ALL the serial ports are remapped. Because of this, you can't just plug in serial devices, figure out what port they're plugged into, and program that in code. You should be able to get the ID of each open port to determine which device is on which port at runtime. Huge headache.