Where are Videos & Photos that are in the 'Album' stored?
I have many Indoor & Outdoor cameras - Smart Home Subscription - SD cards in a few OUTDOOR camera and 1 SD card in a Base Station (none in any Indoor camera). Everything works great - all Event Detection & Event Recording, everything.
My question is regarding the 'Album' and where those Videos & Photos are stored. I get to the Album via viewing any INDOOR camera - go to 'More' - select 'Album'. I have a handful of Videos that show up there including 1 that I just did as a test. Just for clarity, the videos I see in Album are from when I hit 'Record' on a Indoor camera. So, where are the Videos and Photos that show up under Album stored?
Side note - when I hit Record on any Outdoor camera the video shows up in Events, not Album. If I try to access the Album via an Outdoor camera I get a message 'Turn on access to your Storage to let Roku save videos and photos to your Album'. I select 'Go to Settings' to do that and it doesn't matter what I allow or disallow in the App Settings, I still cannot get to the Album via a Outdoor camera. So for me it seems the Album feature is specific to Indoor cameras....maybe doorbell cams too but I don't have one.
The bottom line here is that I want to use my Indoor cameras to record stuff, but I do not want the recordings stored in any Cloud storage. I also do not want any videos I manually record to be transmitted beyond my home network.
Does anyone here know where Album media is stored and if it's transmitted externally?
Thank you very much!
I believe "Album" really refers to the storage on your phone. I don't have a subscription, so there's no way I'm getting any kind of cloud storage. On my Android phone, any recording I make from my Floodlight camera shows up under "Album", but not "Events". It also shows up in my phone's "Gallery" where all my other photos and videos are. If I delete a video from either place it gets removed from both places.
I'm guessing that message about allowing access could be at the root of the problem. Whenever I have issues with the Roku Smart Home app, uninstalling it and reinstalling it usually fixes it, so you might want to give that a try.
I should note that I don't have a microSD card in the camera or base station and I'm not sure how that affects things. I don't think pressing record in the app records to the microSD card, but I haven't tried it either. If you remove the card from one of the cameras does it change anything?
For more information in case you haven't seen it:
How to install a micro SD card in your Roku Smart Home camera | Official Roku Support
