Tapo C420S2 2-Pack 2K QHD Security Camera Outdoor Wireless, 180-Day Battery Life, IP65, Colour Night Vision,AI Detection, Local and Cloud Storage, Works with Alexa & Google, No Monthly Fee

Bought these to cover my home, easy to setup and get working. Quality of footage is fantastic and is 2k as standard (2 X HD quality) but can be dropped to HD if needed. The camera mounts can be adjusted very well and the camera can be mounted from the end or the side of the camera allowing you to point them in almost any direction needed. This kit comes with a mini recorder, just remembered you need an SD card. Recording works on camera motion and playback via the APP is easy. Remote access is available via the APP, all in great solution. The batteries take around 3 hours to fully charge, overall great option for security.

I think TP-Link stuff is great. I bought these to replace Arlo cameras which refused to play nicely with my Three 5G broadband. Cameras are easy to set up, and the app works really well. Picture quality is excellent, both day and night, night being aided by a floodlight. Don't get many false notifications. It gets confused on a windy sunny day with shadows moving, but apart from that they are spot on. They were easy to fit, and Wi-Fi coverage is fine for me. Also, great value for money. Only downside is the monthly subscription, but most cameras have this.

Already have 24/7 CCTV but wanted a ring doorbell esk solution to trigger an alarm on human detection, my current CCTV does email me but when im asleep thats not going to cut it. Charge battery first takes about 6 hours, screw to wall and screw camera on. Mine were position in such a way they wouldn't detect anything other than people coming through a farm gate, you can trigger an alarm on the device to sound and also trigger the lights on the device. Quality is good and detection is set to Human only and works, dogs can run into garden fine, but when i run in there it gets me. My only negative is they communicate directly with the H200 hub also in the package they wont work with the smaller H100 thats for doorbells and light sensors. But once the Cam is triggered it can be made to trigger the internal HUB also which makes a bellowing sound...so you can get out of bed and grab your rocket launcher The problem is for me anyway my cameras are set to activate 11pm at night till 6 in the morning, so between these times they detect and sound their own external alarms, but there is no way to make the Hub do the same. Even though the cameras are not triggering their respective alarm thru the day they still trigger the internal which can be annoying. @TPLINK make the HUB work with schedules please :) Hub can connect via ethernet or Wifi and needs to be in range of Cams, mines around 25ft from both and works fine.

These are nice cameras, easy to set up and pick up my wifi ok in the garden although they have to be quite near the hub. The only issue i have is with the motion setting. It picks up a plant blowing in the wind in the garden as a person detected and this is really annoying as every few seconds it send through a notification, yes you can turn that off but the issue is it depletes the battery every time its picks something up that is just simply blowing. I only re- charged the battery 25 days ago and it already needs re-charging due to this. So i think they need to look at that and improve it. Otherwise not too bad- i’m looking to see if they do a solar panel to fit as if its going to continuously pick ip a small ant blowing in the wind i will spend more time getting the camera down and re-charging it than i will actually using it for purpose! Of course that is going to increase the total cost of it all!

I want to like these cameras, but this is a good example of you pay for what you get. Maybe I'm being generous with 3 stars.... But when they do work, the picture and sound quality is good, battery half decent. I was spurred into writing a review when the cameras didn't even recognise me walking across my drive. What's the point in them if they don't record people, without fail, 100% of the time?! In general the recognition is poor, and practically useless at night time unless it's a car or you're lit up by some other light in the middle of the camera. If it's an animal, forget about it - they won't be picked up, even if they are front and centre, doing a poo in front of your front door - ask me how I know! The battery life is half decent if you limit the amount it wakes up. Would return if I could, but I'm outside the returns window unfortunately. Edit: changed to 1 star. It even misses a car backing into the drive way. What's the point of this camera if it can't pick up a giant object?!

Having read and watched a bunch of reviews of this and many other cameras, I settled on the Tapo 2K wireless camera pair + hub. The main reasons being ease of installation, product reliability, image quality and especially that a subscription is not required. I knew that a wireless installation would be more straightforward than having to drill and run wiring, but I was not expecting the fantastic job the company have done to hold your hand during the installation process. There is a brief and clear initial setup guide, which includes a QR code for you to continue the installation via your phone. I really liked this. Each step was clearly presented, one at a time. I was very pleased when you'd be told something along the lines of "when you plug this in, the indicator will blink red for a few seconds and then go green". And what was forecast would be correct each time, so I'd know the installation was proceeding correctly. Before long I'd got the cameras and hub installed, all without a hitch, even though this was my first time installing CCTV. The app is great and works a treat. So many ways you can control and fine tune the system to suit your needs. Until I got used to it though sometimes I would struggle to find the right menu path to reach the setting I wanted to tweak. But it didn't take long to become familiar with the options important to me. I didn't want to use the offered subscription service - why keeping paying for something you've bought? So I installed a 256GB microSD into the hub. This turned out to be much larger capacity than I really needed. It's taking forever to fill it up, even connected to 3 cameras (I ended up buying the same package again to extend my CCTV coverage). And if it does fill up then the system can continue recording by discarding the oldest if you haven't deleted some old stuff yourself first. So 128GB would have been fine. Having bought this package twice, I have 3 cameras connected to 1 hub and the 4th camera connected to the 2nd hub. I've split them this way because their wireless signal will go through 2 or 3 sets of brick wall and our 4th camera's signal couldn't reach the first hub. So I connected the 2nd hub to our WiFi closer to where the 4th camera is mounted. The whole system performs very well. The image quality is fine and the cameras start recording correctly under the criteria that I selected - I turned off pet, vehicle and movement alerts and chose human detection alerts. The system uses AI to distinguish them. I chose movement detection to be off because of very long grass waving in the wind causing false alarms. We have a glass table on the patio. In the summer this would sometimes set off the camera overlooking it. This was because it would emanate heat from the sun which would trigger the camera to look for a human - and then sometimes cloud reflections on it would look like a human! So I set the area scanned by the camera to exclude the table top - it's very handy being able to precisely specify which parts of the view seen by a camera should be monitored and which should not. The camera at the front door gets the most triggering, mostly from deliveries. Accordingly its battery lasts a little over 3 months before needing recharging. The camera that is triggered the least still has 87% charge after 3 months. The cameras are solidly well made and feel reassuringly hefty and robust in the hand. Overall I'm entirely pleased with the product, its ease of installation and use, its performance and its price.

Bought these cameras as replacements for some very old 'wired' security cameras for my home. In the first twin camera pack that was delivered, after successfully setting up the first camera I struggled to get the second to pair with the Hub. After some Live Chat with Tapo Support it was established that the second camera was faulty. I returned the whole Twin Camera pack to Amazon for Refund and they shipped a replacement the same day. It was delivered the day after. Brilliant customer service !!! The next camera pack was set up extremely quickly with no problems. I have to say that Tapo have got the user friendly set up procedure perfect. I have one camera at the front outside of the house and the second at the rear outside. The cameras are completely wireless and very easy to mount. I have had no problem with signal strength and camera connections. The quality of the colour video is extremely good. There are plenty of options for setting alarms and motion detection, including screening for people, pets or vehicles using the inbuilt AI algorithms. I have been playing with the cameras and settings a lot but the batteries seem to be holding up very well and after approximately 6 days they are still at 96%. Notifications are sent promptly to my email address. Overall, these cameras are superb and very affordable. The only downsides at the moment are: you cannot buy spare batteries for the cameras although I am advised by Tapo that these will be available for sale very shortly. Also, you cannot buy a separate individual camera. You can only buy them in the Twin Pack at the moment. Again, I am led to believe that you will be able to buy individual cameras soon. I am so pleased with the cameras that I am considering buying a second twin pack to locate in 'blind spots' around my house. 31/03/2023: Bought a second twin pack and these worked perfectly out of the box. They were set up in no time with one camera connected to my existing H200 Hub and the second camera connected to the new H200 Hub. Battery life is fantastic. Obviously to get the best battery life I have played with all the settings to optimise the performance for my needs versus battery life. I have always been sceptical about the battery life of such cameras but I have to say that these are brilliant. I have to say that I have found the video recording to the MicroSD cards that I have installed into the H200 Hubs is more than adequate making it unnecessary to subscribe to the Tapo Cloud recording option. As a result of my experience so far I have upgraded my Review to 5 Stars,

These cameras are ok but not without some obvious and some not so obvious flaws. First are the smart notifications - you won't receive them unless you subscribe to Tapo care, which is a major kick in the teeth for me. Many other manufacturers provide this without subscription. The second issue is the hub. The cameras connect to it directly so you can't split each camera on a different wireless network to boost signal to them using adapters, extenders, etc. I have one camera at the front of my house and one at the back both high up and the hub on the ground floor, close to the front, wired in to the router. I can't achieve 2k output on the back one as the signal to the hub is too poor. It only works intermittently on 720p and I live in a small terraced house. The only way to boost the signal to that camera is to move the hub closer to it which in turn moves the hub further away from my router and would necessitate going wireless from the hub to the router or running ethernet cable to it ,which I wanted to avoid by purchasing this system! The optimal solution would be to place the hub on the second floor equidistant from the two cameras and running ethernet cable downstairs to the router or use powerline! I don't know why they chose to go the hub route. The 2k picture is just ok. Tbh my Reolink Argus picture is better in 1080p and more accurately displays colours. The battery life is about what I expected. Certainly NOT 180 days, more like 2/3 weeks depending on positioning, number of detections etc. The app itself is fine and the build quality is about right for the price point. The motion detection/AI is also just ok. Quite a few false triggers and delayed recordings so you get a recorded person just out of shot, for example. I much prefer my Reolinks is the main takeaway, but you'll be paying more. Edit: After about 18 months of use, one of my cameras is playing up, the lens and hence the picture, looks hazy. It looks like condensation infront of the lens. It's also not recording video and the connection keeps dropping for reasons unknown.

Au top.avec le hub ,pas d 'abonnement avec carte micro Sd.Tp link font un travail serieux.Marque de securité

Works great.

Tout fonctionnait bien pendant plus d'un an puis un soir, une des caméras se met à faire des stroboscopes en infrarouge de nuit et ne se connecte plus au hub. J'ai tenté de changer la batterie, ça ne règle pas le problème. J'ai donc demandé une réparation par Amazon, j'attends leur retour pour voir ce qu'il en est. Édit à suivre...

Le hub se s'allume pas après etre mis sous tension, il faut le remplacer, les cameras par contre fonctionnent