16c0:05dd — BlackcatUSB2 (Van Ooijen Technische Informatica)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a BlackcatUSB2 manufactured by Van Ooijen Technische Informatica. The vendor ID 16c0 is registered to Van Ooijen Technische Informatica with the USB Implementers Forum, and 05dd is the product ID that Van Ooijen Technische Informatica assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 16c0:05dd Van Ooijen Technische Informatica BlackcatUSB2.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 16c0:05dd Van Ooijen Technische Informatica BlackcatUSB2

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 16c0:05dd, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 16c0:05dd. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=16c0, idProduct=05dd.

Windows

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

USB\VID_16C0&PID_05DD
USB\VID_16C0&PID_05DD&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_16C0&PID_05DD"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    BlackcatUSB2:
      Product ID: 0x05dd
      Vendor ID: 0x16c0  (Van Ooijen Technische Informatica)

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:

16c0  Van Ooijen Technische Informatica
	05dd  BlackcatUSB2

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