Thermomix TM5 Recipe USB Memory Disassembly, File System Exploration & Editing Recipes

Question

I dismantled the recipe medium, there was a memory inside as in the picture below, after inserting it into a computer (windows7) it detects it as a CD-ROM drive, capacity 0 bytes. I would like to read the data from the medium in order to possibly figure out the file system and edit the recipes,...

winmap · Answer

They don't set up bad blockades there, so I would advise you to give it up.
It's the same as you have a disc in the Polsat digital decoder. You can't read anything from it.
You probably won't do anything. Maybe someone will suggest something else, but I doubt it.

Dra98 · Answer

Please provide information from for analysis and put a screen from the DMDE window Partitions, current partitioning for the media.

Adamo3A · Answer

oto screen

wrobeljarek · Answer

1). The manufacturer of this equipment has created an online database of recipes, for which it charges considerable fees. This is because they are designed for a specific device and can control it. The recipes themselves are available for smartphones, but only with Mac OS. So Apple IPhone, IPad. They are not available for mobile devices with Android and Windows systems due to poor security of both systems. It seems highly probable that these regulations were created on Apple computers with Mac OS X, which store data on HFS media incomprehensible to Windows. In your place, I would install a program that will allow Windows to read the HFS media or look for a computer with OS X among friends. But that's just my guess

2.) Some new type of virus can encrypt the flash memory in such a way that it is readable from the level of Windows after entering the appropriate, paid code. This is rather a curiosity, not a clue. Good luck. Let me know when you do something.

Adamo3A · Answer

Thank you, I'll do that in a week and let you know what happened.
From what I know, all recipes are free, apart from those carriers that cost over PLN 100 for several dozen recipes, can you provide a link to this paid database that you are talking about?

wrobeljarek · Answer

After purchasing the device and registering on the website, you have the option of collecting recipes in your account. You get a few free ones once a month. You can buy the rest.

Adamo3A · Answer

I checked the medium on the Mac, it says that the device was not recognized.

wrobeljarek · Answer

Hmm. Two ideas: 1. If you disassembled the carrier because it was damaged, I found something like that. 2. If you are sure that the medium was not damaged, I have no idea.

januszss · Answer

This is Linux hardware.

p4xel · Answer

From what I can see on the screen, it looks like a typical 4GB flash drive, but formatted with a file system unknown to Windows. Ideally, you would snap it into a file as a raw image, then you might try to figure it out. You can use the HDD Raw Copy Tool from hddguru.com (I cannot insert links )

wseh1322 · Answer

Hello.

Something flickered on the subject?

I use windows XP, I have the reader as a CD drive after connecting via USB, of course, it is impossible to enter due to the unknown file system. But I recognize the reader as 8GB. I am posting a few pics. Maybe someone knowledgeable in the subject say whether you can bite this topic? It's about the content, for example, there are 2 readers with ABC and Wega recipes, what to do to rip everything on one and make it go wild. The first 2 is disk G, because on a different computer, and a few photos from disk F

Please contact a specialist who could help in the subject.

januszss · Answer

Could you connect it to Linux? Thermomix, as I wrote above, runs on Linux.

bpiq · Answer

Germans on mikrocontroller.net have an interesting discussion on this topic, although understanding German after translator is a bit tiring

januszss · Answer

In fact, there is a bit more, but from what I understand it does not fill me with optimism. The media is well protected. Now I understand why they don't make their android platform.

cukier · Answer

Hello, Did anything move on the topic? Regards

ducker1 · Answer

Good morning,

Someone asked if there was anything in the topic, so we have a small step forward. The media opens without any problems on ubuntu.

I am throwing a few screenshots and a package with all the content.

The medium has probably 2 partitions, on the first there is a package in which it seems to be the same as on partition 2.

The second partition looks like this:

And one example folder:

There are a lot of * .bin files and a few sql database files, so uploading new recipes will not be that easy, but probably not impossible.

This medium comes from a cook-key device, and I disarmed it because it stopped working. i.e. after connecting to the Thermomix, it resets it and the device cannot be turned on. Thermomix keeps trying to start up but resets again and so on. Maybe someone has an idea how to look for errors in the snap-in itself?

safbot1st · Answer

So the HFS theory fell? Nobody opened with DMDE as suggested?

Peterteter · Answer

Watch this: youtu be / iCOBc6JLSGc And dont update device! Added after 5 [hours] 11 [minutes]: This is version 201907100000, I wouldnt apply the update

techlock · Answer

The storage medium is specially formatted. Figuratively speaking, the medium simulates a CD-ROM drive, it is divided into two partitions. The first simulates a capacity of 34GB (something like a boot sector that gives access to the second partition), the second is a 4.03GB or 8GB session, depending on the media. In fact, the carriers have a physical capacity of 4GB or 8GB (you can check the ChipGenius program). Under Windows, you can load the memory with the DMDE program and save to a file, however, the program copies only one 34GB or 4GB partition.

ducker1 · Answer

The link is not working, Thermomix stopped starting at all, kept resetting. I undressed it and disconnected a few wires and tried to run it, it worked, it reported a lot of errors but it started. I put everything together as it should and restarted. I managed to connect this allegedly broken snap-in, downloaded the updates and all the problems disappeared, it has been working fine for half a year.

techlock · Answer

The medium can be copied under linux 1: 1 as a disk image. All files are visible. After recording an image on another USB memory, thermomix does not recognize such a memory. The original USB stick is specially crafted and write-protected. You would have to save the image with special memory settings that linux does not save. The same media of this format "USB UDP module" can be purchased on aliexpress with different capacities https://en.aliexpress.com/item/10050016128057...35c4PMAZnP&algo_pvid=1742eefe-9be6-4a8d-bb3a- c45114006a98 & algo_exp_id = 1742eefe-9be6-4a8d-bb3a-c45114006a98-5 & pdp_ext_f =% 7B% 22sku_id% 22% 3A% 2212000016814996628% 22% 7D
You can connect to the Thermomix via the memory connector, it's an ordinary USB port, you probably need a special program to connect to the device.

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