12ab:8809 — Dance Dance Revolution Dance Pad

This is the USB identifier for a Dance Dance Revolution Dance Pad manufactured by Honey Bee Electronic International Ltd.. The vendor ID 12ab is registered to Honey Bee Electronic International Ltd. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 8809 is the product ID that Honey Bee Electronic International Ltd. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 12ab:8809 Honey Bee Electronic International Ltd. Dance Dance Revolution Dance Pad.

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 12ab:8809 Honey Bee Electronic International Ltd. Dance Dance Revolution Dance Pad

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 12ab:8809, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 12ab:8809. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=12ab, idProduct=8809.

Windows

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

USB\VID_12AB&PID_8809
USB\VID_12AB&PID_8809&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_12AB&PID_8809"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Dance Dance Revolution Dance Pad:
      Product ID: 0x8809
      Vendor ID: 0x12ab  (Honey Bee Electronic International Ltd.)

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.

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

12ab  Honey Bee Electronic International Ltd.
	8809  Dance Dance Revolution Dance Pad

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