Tool to decrypt Home Assistant backups

[opvissen]

I’ve written a small Python tool that can decrypt and unpack a Home Assistant backup file.

• Download the backup from wherever Home Assistant stored it.
• Get the decryption key from Home Assistant.
• Get the tool and read the documentation: GitHub - cvberg/hass_unpacker: Decrypter and unpacker for Home Assistand backups
• Good luck!

[Sawtaytoes]

Thanks for putting together your tool :).

None of my backups were able to be decrypted though. Every single encrypted backup is showing “found issue”:

...
Found issue with file data\.shopping_list.json
Found issue with file data\home-assistant_v2.db

I don’t think it’s your tool, but if it’s Home Assistant; that’s really bad. I copy-pasted that encryption key from Home Assistant.

[Sawtaytoes]

It was the tool. I used a different one instead, and that worked fine:

Decryption tool for backups and option to not encrypt backups

I found this script which finally worked! I had to run this command first though: pip install pycryptodome

[opvissen]

I haven’t tested mine for a while.
If it fails, I’ll remove it.
Good that you found a working solution.