I have been advised that the C520WS only tracks and records to the SD card while it is connected to a local network. Is this correct? What if the local network goes down - for example, if my camera is connected to a hotspot from my mobile phone which is deactivated when I go away from the house?
Hi,
It's required to have a wired network or a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network with an internet connection to set up the camera. The camera's features are working after it's connected to the internet and configured successfully.
If your camera is already set up and has an SD card inserted, it can continue recording to the SD card even without Wi-Fi. To ensure this works, make sure you have enabled Continuous Recording or Detection Recording in the camera settings before the Wi-Fi goes offline.
Tracking and detection features (such as motion detection and event recording) will still function locally without Wi-Fi. However, the features that require an internet or Wi-Fi connection, such as accessing the camera's live feed through the Tapo app, remote control, etc., will not work anymore. You also can't view video recordings from the SD card in the Tapo app after Wi-Fi disappears, since the Tapo camera shows as offline.
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