Changing USB device VID PID

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can you share your working buildHooks.py ?
Thanks !

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@beninside Could you share your 10 line scrip to change VID/PID on a Teensy?

This thread is among top results on google, but it is missing just this 1 detail.

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I got it working with a teensy 2.0. Here are the steps I took (likely there are ways to optimize this)

Caution: Once you change PID and VID, platform.io will no longer recognize the device as a teensy and you won’t be able to reupload code with platform.io. (Work around is to use teensyduino application)

  1. Find all usb_private.h files in ~/.platform.io directory
find ~/.platformio  -type f -name usb_private.h
/Users/foobar/.platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/usb_disk/usb_private.h
/Users/foobar/.platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/usb_hid/usb_private.h
/Users/foobar/.platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/usb_flightsim/usb_private.h
/Users/foobar/.platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/usb_serial/usb_private.h
/Users/foobar/.platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/usb_serial_hid/usb_private.h
/Users/foobar/.platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/teensy/usb_private.h
/Users/foobar/.platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/usb_rawhid/usb_private.h
/Users/foobar/.platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/usb_midi/usb_private.h

Since I’m using a teensy, I want .platformio/packages/framework-arduinoteensy/cores/teensy/usb_private.h

Looking in that file I see conditional includes depending on what type of device it is (HID, Keyboard, joystick ect…)

#if defined(USB_SERIAL)
#include "usb_serial/usb_private.h"
#elif defined(USB_HID)
#include "usb_hid/usb_private.h"
#elif defined(USB_SERIAL_HID)
#include "usb_serial_hid/usb_private.h"
#elif defined(USB_DISK) || defined(USB_DISK_SDFLASH)
#include "usb_disk/usb_private.h"
#elif defined(USB_MIDI)
#include "usb_midi/usb_private.h"
#elif defined(USB_RAWHID)
#include "usb_rawhid/usb_private.h"
#elif defined(USB_FLIGHTSIM)
#include "usb_flightsim/usb_private.h"
#endif

I chose to set my device to a USB_SERIAL_HID. To do that I modified platform.ini to include a build flag build_flags = -D USB_SERIAL_HID

[env:teensy2]
platform = teensy
board = teensy2
framework = arduino
build_flags = -D USB_SERIAL_HID

I then manually modified usb_serial_hid/usb_private.h with the PID and VID I want

 59 //TODO: Revert these lines
 60 //#define VENDOR_ID               0x16C0
 61 //#define PRODUCT_ID              0x0487
 62 
 63 #define VENDOR_ID               0xAAAA
 64 #define PRODUCT_ID              0xBBBB

Build and upload and observe the PID and VID are now the programmed value.

I would much rather do this in a more repeatable way, but this is good enough for a proof of concept.

system_profiler SPUSBDataType (OSX)
lsusb (linux)

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I finally got this working.

Here is how to use a custom VID:PID

The official documentation is here:

Create a script named foobar.py and put it in the same directory as platform.ini

Import("env")

print(env.Dump())

board_config = env.BoardConfig()
# should be array of VID:PID pairs
board_config.update("build.hwids", [
  ["0xAAA", "0xBBB"]
])

In platformio.ini add an extra_scripts stanza and prefix it with either pre: or post:

[env:pro-micro]
platform = atmelavr
board = sparkfun_promicro16
build_flags = -D USB_SERIAL_HID
framework = arduino
extra_scripts = pre:foobar.py

Once you upload code, the VID:PID will be modifed

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Hey guys,

I use some ci pipeline on github.

*** missing SConscript file 'custom_hwids.py'

Since some weeks I get following error where I have no clue… this special target came into with a PR a while ago.
I trx to fix it now.



build
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Verbose mode can be enabled via `-v, --verbose` option

*** missing SConscript file 'custom_hwids.py'
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.12.1/x64/lib/python3.12/site-packages/platformio/builder/main.py", line 167, in <module>
========================= [FAILED] Took 28.79 seconds =========================
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

thats my action https://github.com/OpenKNX/knx/blob/devel/.github/workflows/platform-io.yml
and thats the ini https://github.com/OpenKNX/knx/blob/devel/examples/knx-demo/platformio-ci.ini