0471:206c MCE IR Receiver - Spinel plusf0r ASUS

Philips (or NXP)

Vendor ID
0471
Product ID
206c
Combined
0471:206c
Decimal
1137:8300

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a MCE IR Receiver - Spinel plusf0r ASUS manufactured by Philips (or NXP). The vendor ID 0471 is registered to Philips (or NXP) with the USB Implementers Forum, and 206c is the product ID that Philips (or NXP) assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0471:206c Philips (or NXP) MCE IR Receiver - Spinel plusf0r ASUS.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0471:206c Philips (or NXP) MCE IR Receiver - Spinel plusf0r ASUS

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0471:206c, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0471:206c. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0471, idProduct=206c.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_0471&PID_206C
USB\VID_0471&PID_206C&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0471&PID_206C"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    MCE IR Receiver - Spinel plusf0r ASUS:
      Product ID: 0x206c
      Vendor ID: 0x0471  (Philips (or NXP))

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

0471  Philips (or NXP)
	206c  MCE IR Receiver - Spinel plusf0r ASUS

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