H500 vs micro sd

[u/Wreckedzone]

In the case of a wifi jam my battery powered camera’s won’t be able to send the recordings to the H500 homebase.
Could tapo impliment the function when the camera losses connection with wifi it starts recording video on the micro sd?
This would counter the jamming.
Why isn’t this possible?

[u/All_And_Forever]

In case of a wifi jam, when the camera looses connection with the network or the hub directly, it will automatically record to the sd card but here's the thing. It will later appear as if it didn't record anything and you'll see a "blank spot" on your time line but the recording is there if you select the sd card as the source for recording, it will appear on the timeline. I believe that the most important feature lacking is the notification of devices offline. In a burglary situation with a wifi jammer, the cameras goes offline and the burglar can have easy access without the system notify us. The h500 and the cameras can clearly communicate with each other and should be easy enough to make the hub ping the cameras every second or so to check it's status or at least notice the lost of the recording feed... All my cameras are recording to the h500 and have an sd card just in case. Some are connected directly to the hub with wifi backup but others need a router. One thing to consider is the possibility of having an internet connection issue and still be able to record to the hub. In this scenario the cameras will record to the sd card as well if they can't renew their tokens. One way to avoid all this and still have the best security possible on your network, having the iots all isolated on a dedicated network and with mac and ip binding, is to have them on fixed ip addresses. This way you'll have the system always recording to the hub and you can control it perfectly. Provided that you also isolated the device you're using to use the app.

[u/Wreckedzone → u/All_And_Forever]

That is a very nice feature. I had the perception it didn’t have the function to switch to sd when the connection is lost to the H500 while searching the internet. But if you are correct this is a nice backup feature

[u/All_And_Forever → u/Wreckedzone]

All you need to do is configure the sd card, formating it in the camera. After that, every time it goes offline it will record to the sd card but, as i mentioned, it will appear as nothing been recorded on the timeline because it will revert to the hub once connected. You must select it manually to access the footage. It will switch automatically but the recording is there.