1cac:b288 — C18 Webcam

Kinstone

Vendor ID: 1cac
Product ID: b288
Combined: 1cac:b288
Decimal: 7340:45704

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a C18 Webcam manufactured by Kinstone. The vendor ID 1cac is registered to Kinstone with the USB Implementers Forum, and b288 is the product ID that Kinstone assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1cac:b288 Kinstone C18 Webcam.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1cac:b288 Kinstone C18 Webcam

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1cac:b288, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1cac:b288. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1cac, idProduct=b288.

Windows

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

USB\VID_1CAC&PID_B288
USB\VID_1CAC&PID_B288&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1CAC&PID_B288"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    C18 Webcam:
      Product ID: 0xb288
      Vendor ID: 0x1cac  (Kinstone)

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:

1cac  Kinstone
	b288  C18 Webcam