18b4:fffa — EC168 (v2) based USB DVB-T receiver
e3C Technologies
- Vendor ID
- 18b4
- Product ID
- fffa
- Combined
- 18b4:fffa
- Decimal
- 6324:65530
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a EC168 (v2) based USB DVB-T receiver manufactured by e3C Technologies. The vendor ID 18b4 is registered to e3C Technologies with the USB Implementers Forum, and fffa is the product ID that e3C Technologies assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 18b4:fffa e3C Technologies EC168 (v2) based USB DVB-T receiver.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 18b4:fffa e3C Technologies EC168 (v2) based USB DVB-T receiver
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 18b4:fffa, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 18b4:fffa. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=18b4, idProduct=fffa.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_18B4&PID_FFFA USB\VID_18B4&PID_FFFA&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_18B4&PID_FFFA"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
EC168 (v2) based USB DVB-T receiver:
Product ID: 0xfffa
Vendor ID: 0x18b4 (e3C Technologies)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:
18b4 e3C Technologies fffa EC168 (v2) based USB DVB-T receiver