0fde:ca08 WMR300 Professional Weather System

Oregon Scientific

Vendor ID
0fde
Product ID
ca08
Combined
0fde:ca08
Decimal
4062:51720

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a WMR300 Professional Weather System manufactured by Oregon Scientific. The vendor ID 0fde is registered to Oregon Scientific with the USB Implementers Forum, and ca08 is the product ID that Oregon Scientific assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0fde:ca08 Oregon Scientific WMR300 Professional Weather System.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0fde:ca08 Oregon Scientific WMR300 Professional Weather System

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0fde:ca08, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0fde:ca08. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0fde, idProduct=ca08.

Windows

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

USB\VID_0FDE&PID_CA08
USB\VID_0FDE&PID_CA08&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0FDE&PID_CA08"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    WMR300 Professional Weather System:
      Product ID: 0xca08
      Vendor ID: 0x0fde  (Oregon Scientific)

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:

0fde  Oregon Scientific
	ca08  WMR300 Professional Weather System

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