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Locked recording issue

prpr said:
The what?

I'm so glad I don't have an Aura device. You need to have a Google account and sign in to it? What the hell for? What about multi-person households?
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hahaha I know right?! mind boggling. Poor mum she's 84 and pretty good with tec but jeeze!
 
That reset is the one, rather than the one labelled Factory Reset, that caused me to lose access to the recordings. Use with caution!
LavenderGirl said:
Your recordings will NOT be deleted.
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I found no recordings through the Humax menus although the space was taken up. I don't think I could access them by FTP either. Playable with VLC if you can find them. Can't be deleted without a reformat. Not really an acceptable solution from Humax.
 
prpr said:
The what?

I'm so glad I don't have an Aura device. You need to have a Google account and sign in to it? What the hell for? What about multi-person households?
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Don't you need to do this for every Android device? Also, Microsoft want you to sign in to use the latest Windows. Everyone wants your data and location.
 
Will do, thanks Phil!

EEPhil said:
That reset is the one, rather than the one labelled Factory Reset, that caused me to lose access to the recordings. Use with caution! I found no recordings through the Humax menus although the space was taken up. I don't think I could access them by FTP either. Playable with VLC if you can find them. Can't be deleted without a reformat. Not really an acceptable solution from Humax.
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prpr said:
You can get away without doing so I believe, but I don't have anything that runs W11.
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Only just got myself a cheap W11 laptop. (Previous laptop, still working ~19 years old, XP). I'm still learning. Wanted it up and running so I followed the instructions - which seemed to require logging into Microsoft (to activate the OS). Trying my best to prevent as many "calls home" by the software. Already had an automatic update for the WiFi device driver which knackered the system (repeated BSOD). Not just Humax that don't test software properly!
 
EEPhil said:
Only just got myself a cheap W11 laptop. (Previous laptop, still working ~19 years old, XP). I'm still learning. Wanted it up and running so I followed the instructions - which seemed to require logging into Microsoft (to activate the OS). Trying my best to prevent as many "calls home" by the software. Already had an automatic update for the WiFi device driver which knackered the system (repeated BSOD). Not just Humax that don't test software properly!
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Black Hole said:
Maybe firewall those particular communications, but it's too complicated for most!
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I use an app called WPD, you can disable auto updates and so much more, very easy to use. Works for windows 7 to 11.

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Like many on here, I forget things - especially after a year when they don't seem immediately relevant.

Edit: Downloaded WPD - now investigating.
 
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Back to the original problem. I thought it might be possible to automate a PIN search using the ftp server - as it uses the PIN for the password.
I've managed to create a very simple Python script which will find the PIN. It requires a PC on the same LAN as the Aura and a recent version of
Python on the PC. I changed my Aura's PIN a few times and the script found the PIN. I will post the script here if anyone is interested.
 
EEPhil said:
I thought it might be possible to automate a PIN search using the ftp server - as it uses the PIN for the password.
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Neat! Now why didn't Humax think of that? Bit of a security problem though as it's an easy brute-force. How long does it take?
 
Python: 
#aura-pid.py
from ftplib import FTP

host='192.168.1.12'
port=2323
usr='aura'
ftp=FTP()

#check for connection
#Aura ftp server has habit of failing
try:
    ftp.connect(host,port)
    ftp.quit()
except:
    print('No connection could be made to the Aura')
    exit()


#Aura ftp working
for i in range(0,10000):
   try:
      ftp.connect(host,port)
      pwd='{:0>4d}'.format(i)
      ftp.login(usr,pwd)
      print('Password = '+pwd)
      ftp.quit()
      break
   except:
      pass
Okay, so I haven't documented it very well.
Put script in a file, replace "host" with your Aura's IP address - I called it aura-pin.py, the indentation is necessary!
Open a command window in the directory where you put the file and type aura-pin.py and, providing you have a recent Python, it should run.
On a new, cheap Win11 - time to find 9999 about 1m 40s.
Note: I'm new to Python. The code doesn't report if it can't find the PIN.
 
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I think your range should be (0,9999) rather than to 10000, but I'm just being picky.

There are only four hard things in computing/IT:
Naming things
Scaling things
Off-by-one errors
 
prpr said:
Neat! Now why didn't Humax think of that? Bit of a security problem though as it's an easy brute-force. How long does it take?
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Pin are intended to keep the little kids out of the adult material mot the kgb!
By the yime the kids are old enough to write a pin cracker they will have already discovered the more interesting sites on the web.
 
prpr said:
I think your range should be (0,9999) rather than to 10000, but I'm just being picky.

There are only four hard things in computing/IT:
Naming things
Scaling things
Off-by-one errors
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The range() function returns a sequence of numbers, starting from 0 by default, and increments by 1 (by default), and stops before a specified number.
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Black Hole said:
I assume this means a 4-digit zero-padded field.
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Correct, but only for recent Python (I think). I did try other constructs that didn't work. I wish people (Python. Java) would stop deprecating things!

Should the range start at 0000 or 0001? For the amount of extra time it takes, I'm not bothered.
 
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