147a:e016 — eHome Infrared Receiver

This is the USB identifier for a eHome Infrared Receiver manufactured by Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc.. The vendor ID 147a is registered to Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and e016 is the product ID that Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 147a:e016 Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc. eHome Infrared Receiver.

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 147a:e016 Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc. eHome Infrared Receiver

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 147a:e016, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 147a:e016. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=147a, idProduct=e016.

Windows

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

USB\VID_147A&PID_E016
USB\VID_147A&PID_E016&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_147A&PID_E016"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    eHome Infrared Receiver:
      Product ID: 0xe016
      Vendor ID: 0x147a  (Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc.)

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:

147a  Formosa Industrial Computing, Inc.
	e016  eHome Infrared Receiver

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