17a8:0001 — Optical Eye/3-wire

This is the USB identifier for a Optical Eye/3-wire manufactured by Kamstrup A/S. The vendor ID 17a8 is registered to Kamstrup A/S with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0001 is the product ID that Kamstrup A/S assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 17a8:0001 Kamstrup A/S Optical Eye/3-wire.

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 17a8:0001 Kamstrup A/S Optical Eye/3-wire

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 17a8:0001, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 17a8:0001. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=17a8, idProduct=0001.

Windows

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

USB\VID_17A8&PID_0001
USB\VID_17A8&PID_0001&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_17A8&PID_0001"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Optical Eye/3-wire:
      Product ID: 0x0001
      Vendor ID: 0x17a8  (Kamstrup A/S)

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:

17a8  Kamstrup A/S
	0001  Optical Eye/3-wire

• 17a8:0005 M-Bus Master MultiPort 250D
• 17a8:0010 444MHz Radio Mesh Frontend
• 17a8:0011 444MHz RF sniffer
• 17a8:0012 870MHz Radio Mesh Frontend

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