Monitoring status /w wmi.get of USB devices

[occ]

Hi!

Have been looking for several days now how to use the wmi.get function for an item, which would look for a printer's DeviceID and return the Status.

What I've tried so far:

wmi.get[root\cimv2,SELECT Status FROM Win32_PnPEntity WHERE DeviceID LIKE %\\VID_04B8&PID_0202\\%]

wmi.get[root\cimv2,SELECT Status FROM Win32_PnPEntity WHERE DeviceID LIKE %VID_04B8&PID_0202\\%]

wmi.get[root\cimv2,SELECT Status FROM Win32_PnPEntity WHERE DeviceID=USB\\VID_04B8&PID_0202\\%]

wmi.get[root\cimv2,SELECT Status FROM Win32_PnPEntity WHERE DeviceID="USB\\VID_04B8&PID_0202\\%"]

wmi.get[root\cimv2,SELECT Status FROM Win32_PnPEntity.DeviceID=USB\\VID_04B8&PID_0202\\%]

I've even tried to use the full path for the USB device on a single machine, including the S/N, to no avail. Here's the instance of interest as per WMI explorer output:

instance of Win32_PnPEntity
{
	Caption = "EPSON USB Controller for TM/BA/EU Printers";
	ClassGuid = "{36fc9e60-c465-11cf-8056-444553540000}";
	CompatibleID = {"USB\\Class_ff&SubClass_ff&Prot_02", "USB\\Class_ff&SubClass_ff", "USB\\Class_ff"};
	ConfigManagerErrorCode = 0;
	ConfigManagerUserConfig = FALSE;
	CreationClassName = "Win32_PnPEntity";
	Description = "EPSON USB Controller for TM/BA/EU Printers";
	DeviceID = "USB\\VID_04B8&PID_0202\\544357460039060000";
	HardwareID = {"USB\\VID_04B8&PID_0202&REV_0100", "USB\\VID_04B8&PID_0202"};
	Manufacturer = "EPSON";
	Name = "EPSON USB Controller for TM/BA/EU Printers";
	PNPDeviceID = "USB\\VID_04B8&PID_0202\\544357460039060000";
	Service = "TMUSB";
	Status = "OK";
	SystemCreationClassName = "Win32_ComputerSystem";
	SystemName = "POSUS01001-08";
};

[Ankit_N]

Monitoring status /w wmi.get of USB devices

Hello OCC,

The reason for all your wmi.get queries not working is that your Device ID contains (//_&&) which returns Invalid Exception in WMI.

So ,try work around given below

wmi.get[root\cimv2,select status from Win32_PnPEntity where PNPDeviceID like '%544357460039060000%']

While creating a item select Type of information as Character .

But if you remove the USB device, wmi. gets query won't get any data, thus it will return an error item not supported.

Regards,
Ankit_N