[enocean] Incorrectly discovers many devices as "Enocean USB300 Dongle" because 0403:6001 is used by many (FTDI) USB to serial converters

[wborn]

Finally I had a look at how the UsbSerialDiscoveryParticipant works by inspecting the EnOceanUsbSerialDiscoveryParticipant.

Apparently it uses a very common USB vendor/product ID for matching the Dongle:
https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons/blob/af628c6a58bf8f7334dbcb1617147ec62c08fb6d/addons/binding/org.openhab.binding.enocean/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/enocean/internal/discovery/EnOceanUsbSerialDiscoveryParticipant.java#L40-L41

All the USB to serial devices I use with openHAB have this vendor/product ID:

• Plugwise Sticks
• DSMR USB to serial converters

With lsusb it shows up as:

Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC

So this greatly limits the usefulness of this kind of discovery.

Here's a screenshot of one of my Plugwise Sticks being detected as an EnOcean Dongle in Paper UI 😢 :

[kaikreuzer]

This indeed seems to be a bit too generic @fruggy83 :-( . The FTDI chip is indeed widespread and its product id should not be used to identify specific dongles like the USB300.

[fruggy83]

Hi @kaikreuzer, I will see if I can narrow the discovery a little more.

[fruggy83]

@wborn I have created a PR, could you check this with your FTDI devices? Thanks a lot 👍