docs: def stringify_device_meta(device_object):
      """ Input: Portals device object.
          Output: The same device object with the device meta
                  converted to a python string. """
      try:
          if isinstance(device_object['info']['description']['meta'], dict):
              device_object['info']['description']['meta'] =\
                  json.dumps(device_object['info']['description']['meta'])
      except ValueError as err:
          print("stringify: {0}".format(err))
      return device_object