1a79:6300 — Contour next link
Bayer Health Care LLC
- Vendor ID
- 1a79
- Product ID
- 6300
- Combined
- 1a79:6300
- Decimal
- 6777:25344
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Contour next link manufactured by Bayer Health Care LLC. The vendor ID 1a79 is registered to Bayer Health Care LLC with the USB Implementers Forum, and 6300 is the product ID that Bayer Health Care LLC assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1a79:6300 Bayer Health Care LLC Contour next link.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1a79:6300 Bayer Health Care LLC Contour next link
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1a79:6300, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1a79:6300. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1a79, idProduct=6300.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_1A79&PID_6300 USB\VID_1A79&PID_6300&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1A79&PID_6300"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
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Product ID: 0x6300
Vendor ID: 0x1a79 (Bayer Health Care LLC)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:
1a79 Bayer Health Care LLC 6300 Contour next link