27b8:01ed — blink(1)
ThingM
- Vendor ID
- 27b8
- Product ID
- 01ed
- Combined
- 27b8:01ed
- Decimal
- 10168:493
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a blink(1) manufactured by ThingM. The vendor ID 27b8 is registered to ThingM with the USB Implementers Forum, and 01ed is the product ID that ThingM assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 27b8:01ed ThingM blink(1).
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 27b8:01ed ThingM blink(1)
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 27b8:01ed, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 27b8:01ed. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=27b8, idProduct=01ed.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_27B8&PID_01ED USB\VID_27B8&PID_01ED&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_27B8&PID_01ED"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
blink(1):
Product ID: 0x01ed
Vendor ID: 0x27b8 (ThingM)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:
27b8 ThingM 01ed blink(1)