H500 - "Storage" in the app suddenly greyed out and no recordings

H500 - "Storage" in the app suddenly greyed out and no recordings

H500 - "Storage" in the app suddenly greyed out and no recordings
H500 - "Storage" in the app suddenly greyed out and no recordings
2025-07-30 17:09:32 - last edited 2025-08-05 02:33:33
Model: Tapo H500  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.1.1

I have been using the H500 for a few weeks, the central storage of camera recordings (for 9 cameras) worked fine, with a 500GB Intenso SSD in the H500 drive bay.

 

Today, I noticed that in the app, the Tapo Hub H500 tab no longer showed the "% used" info (it was 10% just before).

 

In the H500 interface, the "Storage" tab (next to "AI Empowerment") is greyed out and not accessible.

 

The cameras also had no recordings available, apart one camera where I had left in a SD card (it seems the cameras switch to recording to the SD card when the Hub storage no longer works, which is nice).

 

I thought there might be something wrong with the SSD that caused this, so I unplugged the H500 and removed the SSD. After reboot, the "Storage" tab is still greyed out, so the H500 doesn't even use the built in 16GB storage.

 

I unplugged the H500 several times and restarted the app, but it doesn't fix the problem.

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Re:H500 - "Storage" in the app suddenly greyed out and no recordings-Solution
2025-07-31 10:22:03 - last edited 2025-08-05 02:33:33

  @ClaudeLux  @flei 

 

Our R&D has a new firmware with relevant modifications. Check this article for more details and learn how to get the beta. Tapo H500 Performance Optimizations: Cannot Recognize or Read Hard Disk, Facial Recognition Error

Tapo P110M Matter 1.3 Release Energy Monitoring through Matter ▶ Smart HomeBase Tapo H500 - Even More Powerful Smart Hub ▶ First Smart Switch Module! Tapo S112 Smart Switch Module with Roller and Switch Dual ModesTapo Camera Image Style & Image Brightness Try out a different image style for your camera!
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Re:H500 - "Storage" in the app suddenly greyed out and no recordings
2025-07-30 18:36:45

  @ClaudeLux I have exactly the same issue. No solution yet.

 

Br,

Thomas

 

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Re:H500 - "Storage" in the app suddenly greyed out and no recordings
2025-07-30 21:13:56

I did a factory reset of the H500, and now Storage works again. But of course I had to configure all the settings again.

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2025-07-31 10:22:03 - last edited 2025-08-05 02:33:33

  @ClaudeLux  @flei 

 

Our R&D has a new firmware with relevant modifications. Check this article for more details and learn how to get the beta. Tapo H500 Performance Optimizations: Cannot Recognize or Read Hard Disk, Facial Recognition Error

Tapo P110M Matter 1.3 Release Energy Monitoring through Matter ▶ Smart HomeBase Tapo H500 - Even More Powerful Smart Hub ▶ First Smart Switch Module! Tapo S112 Smart Switch Module with Roller and Switch Dual ModesTapo Camera Image Style & Image Brightness Try out a different image style for your camera!
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