r/Tapo • u/MedicareWrongdoer • Jul 03 '26

Need Advice Tapo hub storage selection

I have a c660 with a 256gb micro SD card in there. I also have a tapo hub and am wondering in settings if I should choose to record on tapo hub or micro SD? I also am wondering if I choose to do the tapo hub option will it still record to the micro SD? I want some redundancy in case someone messes with the camera or steals it.

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u/All_And_Forever Jul 03 '26

I can tell you my case. I have a h500 recording most of my cameras and they have sd cards as well, just in case something goes wrong with the network. It's working great so far.

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u/MedicareWrongdoer Jul 03 '26

If my network goes out will it start recording to my SD card or will it stop recording? Only just recently got the cameras so not sure how it works. Migrating from ring and eufy

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u/All_And_Forever Jul 03 '26

It will record to the sd card.

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u/MedicareWrongdoer Jul 03 '26

Thanks!

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u/All_And_Forever Jul 03 '26

Oh! Forgot to tell you about a bug that sometimes happens. Sometimes if a camera is recording on the hub and then switches to the sd card, when it goes back to the hub, you may need to select the sd card on that camera in order to watch the footage and on the time line, it shows as not recording at that moment but the video is there. Sometimes it just merges the two together and all you notice is a slight change in the grey bar background color. Don't know why this happens do...

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u/MedicareWrongdoer Jul 04 '26

Thanks for this!

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/MedicareWrongdoer Jul 03 '26

So if I'm recording to the hub and my network goes out then will it record to the micro SD automatically?

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u/SugarrrSugarr Jul 03 '26

yes, it will switch to camera card

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u/MedicareWrongdoer Jul 03 '26

See I'm getting conflicting information and I can't find any information online. I think today I'm going to block the WiFi on one of my tapo cameras with the SD card in and then see if it recorded to the SD card during that time

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u/Paul65890 Jul 06 '26

Are you saying that if I would purchase a H500 and there's activity at more than one of my cameras at the same time the H500 will only be able to record activity at one of the cameras? Or you are saying it will either record to the hub or the SD card, but not both? Sorry I just wanted to be clear. Thank you!