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Tapo Wifi Camera, Indoor Camera For Security Customize Zones to Track What Matters
Person Detection and Notifications
Control what alerts you receive by creating multiple custom activity zones around areas that matter.
Precise Motion Tracking
Keep an Eye on the Action : When motion activity is detected, it tracks and follows the subject to keep it within view.
Ethernet/Wi-Fi Connection
You can not only connect the security camera by using Wi-Fi, but also connect through the Ethernet port.
Advanced Night Vision
The 850nm infrared night vision supports automatic colour switch filter in low light conditions with a visual distance of up to 30 ft.
Tapo Sharing
Tapo Sharing lets you share funny records and your Tapo security devices with family or guests.
Two-Way Audio
Communicate through a built-in microphone and speaker.
Begin with Privacy Protection
Create privacy zones to block recording in designated areas, safeguarding personal moments from leaks.
Flexible Storage Options
Save recorded video on a microSD card (up to 512 GB) or by using Tapo Care cloud storage services.
Lynda Hackett –
This camera was purchased to be used to check on a 92 year old who lives alone in a different town.It was really easy to set up, (just make sure your phone is connected to the recipient’s wi- fi).We chose to put it in the kitchen to prevent invading his privacy, so we can check he’s going in and out to make food.The picture is super clear, we can hear as well and you can talk if you want to. We’ve put an sd card in so we don’t have to pay to use the cloud.It detects the motion immediately and notifys the app. All in all a great camera, well worth the money, and gives us so much peace of mind.
hissing sid –
I have a studio at the bottom of my garden it’s a long way from the house. I have things in it I would hate to loose although the garden is secure I wanted a little extra reassurance and this so far fits the bill. The unit looks the part and would not look out of place in a modern house. The power lead is a suitable length and I found I needed no extention. I would have preferred it if the power lead was the same colour as the unit .black lead white unit ?. I wont go into detail about set up there are enough videos on you tube to get you out of difficulty. Setting up was easy enough ,I like the fact you can pan and tilt the camera to cover the room. I like the talk over ability it would deter anyone being told your uploading their images to social media. Not so sure about the alert thing. I had two alerts and nothing there. I know what your thinking mice, but I dont think so. I’m a bit of a cover every angle sort of person and have a movement alarm in the studio. I know it’s working as when I panned the room the movement set it off. So it meant a swift move to my studio to turn it off before annoying my neighbor’s. I will check the settings to see if it can be turned down. I have had this sort of camera before and I can honestly say this seems better than those that have gone before it. Main points great clear picture , having the ability to move the camera remotely makes the unit stand out among others you can get. Being able to talk to dog,baby,burgulars is also handy. The night vision is really good virtually as good as daylight. Easy to set up and the app works well. The only two grumbles I have and they are not game changers, I would have liked the power lead to be the same colour as the unit. Not an issue for my studio but if I was using it in the house I would buy a matching lead. The other is alerts two alerts nothing there that could become annoying and could cause you not to check alerts,(remember the story of the boy who cried wolf). To end on a good note this unit is incredible for its low price tag . It does so much more than others out there costing a lot more. It seems I was premature with my review . I just wish I would sometimes listen to my own advice . If a product and price looks to good to be true it usually is, now yet again been suckered into buying a mugs eyeful. Like an idiot I believed what the ad said works with up to a 128 ad card. It doesnt I purchased a high speed card specifically for this camera that is now as redundant as the so called security camera. Call me strange but if someone breaks in and you cannot record them no evidence . I thought that is the purpose of any security camera. Without a recording you have nothing to tell bill about other than you have been burgled you can do that without spending 24 of your English pounds . I’m going to have to contact amazon as I have no idea how to send this as long as your looking at it security camera back.as I’m on shielding. And before anyone jumps in and says do this do that. I have done the fixes same result the camera has a problem with the ad card. I think its to cameras that have the problem. It’s about as much use as a an allotment in Chernobyl. Yet again another amazon useless purchase. Having written a good review and then edit it to complain about not being able to record I have to eat humble pie and apologise to the seller. I asked the Amazon community if anyone has managed to format the ad card. And many got back to me and once it was explained the card was easily formatted for use in the camera. So my original ramblings stand . It’s a very good camera with great features .
graham –
So far this camera has meet my needs/ expectations perfectly. So much as just bought a second one.Set up is easy for someone with basic know how, instructions are clear and work.I bought this as have a rat/ rats in my loft and cavity walls. And could hear them most nights, yet my baited cages and glue boards remained empty. I didn’t want to buy a big cctv system as I’ve had one before which eventually failed and don’t see the point in spending hundreds just to confirm I have rats in my loft and see what they’re upto. After 48hours this camera has shown me where it came in and what it’s doing, also know where to move the cage to. I have a 64g Samsung micro sd card. Set to permanently record using about 6g for 24hours.Using the pan/tilt allows for precise adjustment for area to be recorded.I am able to view live and recorded video via the tapo app on both iPad and android phone, either connected to Wi-fi or 4g when away from home.I didn’t receive a movement notification when rat appeared however I had customised notification times and this fell outside of timesBut a rat is fairly small, it did pick my kids up when and notify me when tested in the house. I have now set notifications to always so it may work now. Not a problem if it doesn’t as you can scroll through playback to any point and then watch at 2x, 4x,8x even 16x speed. Even slow motion 1/2 1/4 1/8 &1/16.All in all a very good camera for its money. Once you have it in position you don’t need to go near it again.I did briefly use the 2 way talk, and siren which works, talk had a minimal delay but this is not the reason for purchase so not an issue.I don’t think telling the rats to **** off is going to be effective.If your looking for a camera to use as a indoor/dry area monitor with fairly good picture quality, this is it.The sound from recording and talk didn’t seem amazing however I briefly used it, but would say it’s on par with a baby monitor. All be it this is so much cheaper.I’ve only had this for 48hrs. Not sure of how long this will last but seems well made. Enough for me to buy another.Also worth noting the app can have 32 cameras paired to it, to scroll through like a proper cctv kitCame with 3 pin mains plug about 3m length
Leigh –
I purchased this camera to keep an eye on my (slightly wild) toddler when I step out of the room. I’ve found it great for this purpose and I would recommend it (I’ve actually purchased a second one). I have listed the pros and cons in more detail below:Pros: Good video quality, able to add an SD card for recording, easy to set up especially if you are already using Tapo devicesCons: The sound quality is not the best, and you have to pay to use the cloud services (but I understand why this is). Occasionally I have found that the video will disconnect or freeze and I’ll have to close and reopen the app, but this has only happened a handful of times.
turnipboy –
I’ve been very impressed with the TP-Link Tapo C200 cameras, especially considering how cheap they are. Unlike the Kasa KC115 camera these can be controlled via a generic ONVIF system such as Synology Surveillance Station (as an IP camera) and they also do not require access to TP-Link cloud services at all times to work.One thing that all the TP-Link cameras seem to do is allow you access the camera from anywhere using their apps. Whilst there’s a massive amount of convenience with this I am concerned about the security of their systems and who might get access to my cameras! I used the Tapo app to update the camera firmware and configured a ‘camera account’ and then I simply added them to Synology Surveillance Station. Once that was working I blocked the cameras from going out to the internet on my firewall and it’s all working perfectly.The picture quality is really decent and they have night vision mode. To be fair they actually work quite well in the dark without the night vision LED turned on too which was surprising. The camera supports tilting and rotating which is really cool and works well in the Tapo app. In order to get this functionality working with Synology Surveillance Station I needed to setup the cameras as a [ONVIF] with ‘All functions’ and then the PTZ stuff works however it is a bit laggy compared to the Tapo app.There’s an SD card slot for storing recordings. This is useful if you are using the Tapo app to watch historic videos but less useful if you are using these as an IP camera on an ONVIF system like I am.I’m really impressed with these cameras so far and for the money you really can’t go wrongPros:- Good value- Very decent feature set- Decent picture quality- 2 way audio- Supports ONVIF and PTZCons:- None
Customer Review –
I have used this for a couple of weeks now.An IP Camera has so much potential for remote security and this particular model covers almost all the bases an average user like me would need. But it is all dependant on how good the software is. Thankfully, the Tapo software which can be installed on a tablet or smartphone, is pretty great with just a few user interface flaws. But feature-wise you can do almost anything remotely. Obviously, you can watch your footage live. But what I love is that you can also pinch and zoom, pan swipe while zoomed in, take an instant snapshot or record what you are seeing straight onto your smartphone/tablet….WHILE the the camera is ALSO doing a 24/7 continuous recording onto its local SD card (it doesnt come with one, you buy this yourself).The camera can be set to record continuously onto SD card or only when motion is detected or on a set schedule. I only tested continuous recording.I bought a 64GB class 10 card which i found that the camera stored almost 8 days of continous recording in 1080p before it cycled over the oldest recording. You can playback footage at any specific time and anything of particular interest, can be recorded directly to your tablet/smartphone….but the caveat to that is that you record your playback segment in real time. You can speed up playback by 2x, 4x, 8x etc but if you record that, you are recording that playback at that same speed. If you want to save several hours or several days of recording, then recording that playback to your tablet/smartphone is clearly impractical, so you have to take the SD card out of the camera and copy off the footage to your computer. But for me, recording short sequences off playback sequences was sufficient for me.If your wifi or 4G reception is poor, the software has a low and high quality stream setting. In good wifi reception, the high quality streaming is excellent, fluid motion and good 1080p resolution. when signal drops, the motion jutters in high quality mode but set it to lower quality, the motion is fluid again but at the sacrifice of some detail. BUT be reassured that the actual recording on camera’s SD card is always at highest quality with smooth motion because of course streaming doesn’t affect local recording.The clarity of video is exceptional. I had been using analogue security camera in the past and this just blows it out of the water. Night vision is terrific too and it switches automatically on detecting low light. However, I find that when more light arrives, the camera is very slow to switch back to “day mode”. Now, I use this camera to keep watch on my front and back yards, and street lights just keeps the area a bit lit, so I tried force “day mode” all the time. Turns out “Day mode” in low light is brilliant, as the night footage shows up as if it was daylight and this is probably because there is a large sensor in the camera, I suspect or camera is using a higher ISO. No need for night vision mode. Night vision mode is really only needed for litterally dark rooms. So my tip for using this in low light is force “Day Mode” permanently but for dark rooms with no light at all, use Night vision mode.If you have several cameras, The Tapo software can show all simultaneously or switch to any.Another brilliant feature is its connectivity to Amazon Firestick and Chromecast. Or Alexa and Google Home. I used my Firestick, and all I have to say is “show me Front Yard” and in just a few seconds I can view what’s going on my front yard on my TV.But we are not limited to just using Tapo software. This is also compatible with mainstream IP security software and the Tapo (Dlink) website is very informative. You can also live stream on VLC player on your PC…however, this involves typing your camera password and username into the streaming address which somehow doesnt feel secure. But I tried it and it really works. So Tapo’s potential is even more flexible if used with othetr security software such as IP CAM etc.Widefield view.130 degree is a very wide coverage. It’s not aspherical so It does have spherical aberration (ie warped at the sides) but not so much as you would find on fish eye lenses. This is not a photographic lens anyway so shouldn’t be a big deal.In fact, I forgot to mention that the camera can be set to pan left and right continuously but the wide angle is sufficient enough for me to keep it still.Appearance:This is NOT a conspicuous device with stark black and white contrast, so if you have white wall, the black camera will standout, and if you have a dark wall, the white external body will stand out. So this camera is obvious and serves as a “hey I am watching you, mate” warning. But I love it’s THX118 scifi aesthetic (or if you an Apple product fan, this fits right in too).Sound and Mic:I am sorry I have not tested this ability as it’s not a feature I am after but when I do, I will update. However, the mic can be turned off for privacy and I do actually use that. On my previous analogue camera, I had to block the mic with blu tack so this ability to remotely turn off is most welcome.Pan and Tilt: Manually remote panning and tilting on a tablet is very useful but I think the Tapo software makes this a little awkward with its joypad overlay. Its quite cumbersome to use but it is effective nevertheless.There isn’t much more for me to say other than this is a tremendous value, feature rich IP Camera for £25 (at time of purchase) and will be purchasing more to replace my other analogue cameras.
Christina –
I’ve been using these for a while now. They are so easy to set up and a very cheap way to keep an eye on your home when you are not there. The picture quality is reasonable for the price and you receive an alert if anything triggers it. You can view what the camera sees from your app and change the angle of the camera from your app if you want a slightly different view. You have to buy a memory card to go in it but these are not too expensive. I would recommend this product.
Lin Cheng –
Upon receiving the Tapo Security Camera, I dived right into setting it up and testing out its features. Here’s a breakdown of my experience:1. **Packaging**: The product came impeccably packed. Clearly, the brand prioritizes the safety and presentation of their product during transit.2. **Memory Card Installation**: This was akin to a mini-adventure. The slot for the memory card isn’t immediately evident, making it a tad challenging to locate. That said, this discreet placement can be seen as an added layer of security.3. **Night Vision**: The night vision functionality is top-notch. The camera doesn’t miss a beat even in dim conditions, ensuring everything remains visible.4. **Image/Video Quality**: I was quite impressed with the clarity of the video feed. Human faces pop with clarity, making it a fantastic tool for security and monitoring.5. **Pan/Tilt Feature**: This feature delivers exactly what it promises. With easy maneuverability, I was able to get the exact viewing angles I wanted, ensuring comprehensive coverage.6. **Cloud Recording**: The cloud storage and recording aspect of this camera worked seamlessly. It gives me peace of mind knowing I can retrieve past footages at any time.7. **Motion Detection**: Here’s where I faced a minor hiccup. The motion detection can be a bit sensitive, especially with lighting changes. To counteract the frequent alerts, I opted to disable the app notifications. It’s a workaround, and I hope a future software update can provide a more refined solution to this.8. **Final Thoughts**: Despite the motion detection sensitivity, the Tapo Security Camera has been a stellar addition to my security setup. Its top-tier features coupled with the overall dependable performance make it a solid 5-star product. If you’re seeking a security camera that offers clarity and reliability, the Tapo is a strong contender.I trust this review provides valuable insights to potential buyers. Cheers to the Tapo team for producing such a commendable product!
N Yusuf –
I bought this camera to monitor the loft, as we suspected we had rats – and we did! The camera captured everything, including footage of the rats getting caught in traps. The motion sensor works really well, sometimes even a bit too well, as it picked up dust particles in the dark. But overall, it’s been incredibly useful for keeping an eye on the space.The night vision is clear, and the setup was straightforward (I purchased two and linked them in the app). If you need something reliable for pest monitoring or general home security, this is a solid choice!Oh and for that price, it’s a bargain (bought for £24.99 – price fluctuates)
Deborah Feeney –
The camera is extremely good, easy to set up, great pictures and idiot proof.