diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 63a0eff1..2a33837a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2618,6 +2618,7 @@ Jose Alberto Reguero <jareguero@telefonica.net>
  for a patch that fixed part of a crash in i18n character set conversion
  for fixing cDvbPlayer::NextFile() to handle files larger than 2GB
  for implementing full handling of the stream types of Dolby Digital pids
+ for adding subsystem id support for DVB devices connected via USB
 
 Patrice Staudt <staudt@engsystem.net>
  for adding full weekday names to i18n.c for plugins to use
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 9d3d88d1..c6368dce 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -8344,3 +8344,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed support for systemd (thanks to Christopher Reimer).
 - Added a missing backslash to the help text of the SVDRP command MOVR (thanks to
   Lars Hanisch).
+- Added subsystem id support for DVB devices connected via USB (thanks to Jose
+  Alberto Reguero).
diff --git a/dvbdevice.c b/dvbdevice.c
index fb406f1a..da97567a 100644
--- a/dvbdevice.c
+++ b/dvbdevice.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: dvbdevice.c 3.11 2014/03/16 10:38:31 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbdevice.c 3.12 2015/01/12 11:24:51 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "dvbdevice.h"
@@ -1751,12 +1751,28 @@ uint32_t cDvbDeviceProbe::GetSubsystemId(int Adapter, int Frontend)
                                 SubsystemId = strtoul(s, NULL, 0) << 16;
                              fclose(f);
                              }
+                          else {
+                             FileName = cString::sprintf("/sys/class/dvb/%s/device/idVendor", e->d_name);
+                             if ((f = fopen(FileName, "r")) != NULL) {
+                                if (char *s = ReadLine.Read(f))
+                                   SubsystemId = strtoul(s, NULL, 16) << 16;
+                                fclose(f);
+                                }
+                             }
                           FileName = cString::sprintf("/sys/class/dvb/%s/device/subsystem_device", e->d_name);
                           if ((f = fopen(FileName, "r")) != NULL) {
                              if (char *s = ReadLine.Read(f))
                                 SubsystemId |= strtoul(s, NULL, 0);
                              fclose(f);
                              }
+                          else {
+                             FileName = cString::sprintf("/sys/class/dvb/%s/device/idProduct", e->d_name);
+                             if ((f = fopen(FileName, "r")) != NULL) {
+                                if (char *s = ReadLine.Read(f))
+                                   SubsystemId |= strtoul(s, NULL, 16);
+                                fclose(f);
+                                }
+                             }
                           break;
                           }
                        }