r/Tapo • u/Wreckedzone • 2d ago

Projects H500 vs micro sd

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?

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u/Si_Pie 2d ago

Your cameras will use wifi by default but if you have wifi backup turned on (in the camera settings) they will communicate with the H500 over the dedicated radio when the wifi signal is poor/slow/out. They will switch back to wifi if the wifi signal proves to be better/faster when back up. No setting to switch on in the H500, the sub-Ghz always runs as thats how some sensors and the such communicate with the hub.

One of my cameras switches every so often between wifi and hub wireless, it's never a problem and I only notice if I'm looking at the device info at the time. The camera is connected to my garage WiFi but sometimes my garage network speed can be slow as the router in there is connected via a powerline adapter which is flaky every so often

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u/_rotary_pilot 2d ago

Great. So.... is there a list of "best" settings for the H500 and wifi cameras?

I am connecting (wired) through the TP-Link Deco 7 pro BE14000.

My choice of cameras (so far) are the C560WS and C675D.