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NickDawson

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My HDD controller failed on my Humax 1000 box so I purchased a new 1100 box. I replaced the 500gb drive with a 2tb drive which it formatted and appears to work just fine.

I would however like to recover the recordings from my original 1tb drive which works fine in a caddy allowing me to see the files using a Linux emulation program. Unfortunately, I cannot open them as they appear to have been encrypted by the original box.

I even connected the caddy to the new boz via USB and the directories are all there however the box cannot see the files.

I have not tried connecting the caddy to the original box via USB which may work but ideally I want them on the new drive.

Has anyone managed to do this?

Thank you in anticipation

| Fri 13 Jul 2018 14:03:18 #1 |
REPASSAC

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I have not seen any posts while have managed this.
The recordings are secured to the unit which recorded them, probably using the units MAC address as part of the encryption key.

Re the idea of a USB caddy to the original unit, I suspect that decryption is only coded via the SATA connection but if you have a caddy we world be interested to know the result.

| Fri 13 Jul 2018 15:28:59 #2 |
Martin Liddle

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NickDawson - 4 hours ago »
Has anyone managed to do this?

You would need to crack the encryption to do what you want. There has been recent progress in understanding the encryption scheme used on the HDR-FOX T2 but as far as is known the later boxes use more secure encryption. Unless you are a software expert I think you should regard the recordings as lost.

| Fri 13 Jul 2018 18:37:06 #3 |
NickDawson

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Yes, I am coming to that conclusion myself.

I will connect the caddy to the old box and see of it sees them. If so, I may look at modifying the firmware code as I believe others have done this (I notices this on another forum). If that works (a big if) then I should be able to decrypt them using the box itself - a long shot I know.

This is all on the back burner now due to the low chance if success and the work involved however, I will keep this thread updated with progress.

| Fri 13 Jul 2018 19:46:07 #4 |
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NickDawson - 32 minutes ago »
Yes, I am coming to that conclusion myself.
I will connect the caddy to the old box and see of it sees them. If so, I may look at modifying the firmware code as I believe others have done this (I notices this on another forum). If that works (a big if) then I should be able to decrypt them using the box itself - a long shot I know.
This is all on the back burner now due to the low chance if success and the work involved however, I will keep this thread updated with progress.

No one has been able to modify the firmware on a G2 box. only on the first generation eg Humax boxes (Foxsat-HDR). SD recordngs on a G1 Humax box are not encrypted.

Only the Freeview boxes have the built in capability to decrypt SD content as both SD and HD are encrypted, Copying SD recordings to USB on a Frreview+ unit decrypts the content.

| Fri 13 Jul 2018 20:20:34 #5 |
NickDawson

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Oh dear, unless I can see the recordings via the caddy and USB, I guess they are gone.

| Sat 14 Jul 2018 16:42:57 #6 |
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An alternative solution would be to record the HDMI output using an HDMI splitter such as this to defeat the encryption https://www.amazon.co.uk/iSolem-Switch-Splitter-Input-Output/dp/B006KZBC92/ref=sr_1_26?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1531650335&sr=1-26&keywords=hdmi-splitter

plus a means of capturing the split HDMI video output, such as a game capture card.

| Sun 15 Jul 2018 11:02:33 #7 |
Martin Liddle

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xeroid4 - 4 hours ago »
An alternative solution would be to record the HDMI output using an HDMI splitter such as this to defeat the encryption

How would that work when the box that made the recordings has failed?

| Sun 15 Jul 2018 15:55:03 #8 |
NickDawson

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That may well work. The box itself has not failed however the ability to read the HDD has ie the HDD controller. If I can read the HDD on the box via a caddy and USB then an HDMI splitter may well work.

Will look into that!

Thank you!

| Sun 15 Jul 2018 18:33:45 #9 |
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NickDawson - 17 minutes ago »
That may well work. The box itself has not failed however the ability to read the HDD has ie the HDD controller. If I can read the HDD on the box via a caddy and USB then an HDMI splitter may well work.
Will look into that!
Thank you!

Pretty sure the only Humax satellite box that can replay encrypted content copied to a usb HDD is the Foxsat-HDR. In effect you had unlimited storage.

| Sun 15 Jul 2018 18:53:35 #10 |