Plugin: ColorHug

Introduction

The ColorHug is an affordable open source display colorimeter built by Hughski Limited. The USB device allows you to calibrate your screen for accurate color matching.

ColorHug versions 1 and 2 support a custom HID-based flashing protocol, but version 3 (ColorHug+) has now switched to DFU.

Firmware Format

The daemon will decompress the cabinet archive and extract a firmware blob in a packed binary file format.

This plugin supports the following protocol ID:

  • com.hughski.colorhug

GUID Generation

These devices use the standard USB DeviceInstanceId values, e.g.

  • USB\VID_273F&PID_1001

Update Behavior

The device usually presents in runtime mode, but on detach re-enumerates with a different USB PID in a bootloader mode. On attach the device again re-enumerates back to the runtime mode.

For this reason the REPLUG_MATCH_GUID internal device flag is used so that the bootloader and runtime modes are treated as the same device.

Flags=halfsize

Some devices have a compact memory layout and the application code starts earlier.

Since: 1.0.3

Vendor ID Security

The vendor ID is set from the USB vendor, in this instance set to USB:0x273F

External Interface Access

This plugin requires read/write access to /dev/bus/usb.

Version Considerations

This plugin has been available since fwupd version 0.8.0.

Owners

Anyone can submit a pull request to modify this plugin, but the following people should be consulted before making major or functional changes:

  • Richard Hughes: hughsie