usb-inspector 0.1.2

A cross-platform tool to monitor and inspect USB devices connected to the host system.

USB Inspector

Overview

A simple package that allows you to lookup USB vendor and device IDs and get back a human readable vendor and device name. It includes ability to manually update the USB DB without installing a new version of usb-inspector.

Installation

python3 -m pip install usb-inspector

Example Usage

Command Line:

usb-inspector lookup --vendor-id 1A40
usb-inspector lookup --vendor-id 1A40 --device-id 0801

usb-inspector update-db
usb-inspector delete-db

from usb_inspector.monitor import USBDeviceMonitor

usb_monitor = USBDeviceMonitor(poll_interval=1.0)
usb_monitor.monitor()
# Do stuff
...
usb_monitor.stop()

Issues

If you experience any issues, please create an issue on Bitbucket.

Development

To get a list of all commands with descriptions simply run make.

make env
make pip_install_editable

Testing

make pytest
make coverage
make open_coverage

History

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.1.0 (2025-10-30)

• First release

0.1.1 (2025-10-30)

• Added start as an alias for monitor.

0.1.2 (2025-10-30)

• Fix lookup error