No effect of custom encryption key

[The Baron]

My HDR-FOX T2 died, so I bought another and moved the hard disk across. I thought that by changing the custom encryption key in Webif Advanced Settings to the encryption key of the original box I would be able to immediately watch my old recordings, but on playback I'm still getting the encrypted message.

I also tried making a new recording, then changing the encryption key, but after a reboot I could still watch the new recording, which is not what I expected. Have I got the concept wrong?

 

[Black Hole]

No, you've got it about right, so it ought to be working.

Be specific: give us a screen grab of the details in your Advanced Settings:


(that's one of mine)

How did you determine the correct string?

 

[The Baron]

Thanks for the confirmation that it should be working. I had the key written down from when I'd used stripts previously.

You led me to believe I hadn't got everything installed properly, so I ran the fix-flash-packages diagnostic and that has got it working perfectly.

My error was that after I moved the disk into the new machine and installed the custom firmware I found that my previously installed packages were already present, so I assumed that I was done at this point. There must have been some flash changes to complete.

 

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Presumably nugget, which causes its library /var/lib/humaxtv_backup/mod/libnugget.so to be loaded into the Humax settop binary and hooks into its private parts, including the encryption key. The /mod/bin/nugget program is used to change the key.

 

[Black Hole]

One of the more interesting things about this thread is yet another non-posting member or even non-member coming out of the woodwork as a long-term CF user familiar with things such as fix-flash-packages. I wonder how large this silent community is?!