🔒 Your Home's Watchful Eye, Anytime, Anywhere!
The Tapo C201 is a state-of-the-art 360° Wi-Fi smart camera that delivers 1080p Full HD video, advanced night vision, and two-way audio. With features like motion detection alerts, local storage support, and voice control compatibility, it ensures comprehensive home security while prioritizing user privacy and convenience.
P**A
It's Good!
Just Did installation myself. Easily done with roof bracket to install on the roof (you will need drilling machine) or easy to keep in a corner somewhere also. You need wifi with 2.4 GHz band to connect this camera. Do not purchase if you do not have a stable Wi-Fi connection. The pan and tilt works, night vision is functional, audio can be heard, even the talk function works, alarm function is working, motion detection and person detection is working, installed 64 G SD card for local recordings which can be accessed via the app. Did two tests - disconnected wifi in this case live view or local recordings is not available, once wifi is restored camera connected automatically and local recordings are available even when wifi is off. 2nd disconnected the power from camera in this case live view or local recordings are not available, once power restored it automatically connected and can view the live view, not possible to get any recordings while the camera is power off. So if someone physically turns off the power all functionality is gone. Video quality is better than expected - overall very happy with the product. Now ordered 3 more pieces. It requires technical know how to use the product, if you are not good with modern gadgets you will probably have hard time in installing/using fully by yourself.
7**I
Excellent Camera. Highly Effective.
I have bought 6 TP Link Tapo cameras (different models) for my house. Even though these are supposedly indoor cameras, I am using them on the outside of the house. They are excellent. The TAPO app allows me to monitor them within one app. The app itself has plenty of features. You can set what you want each individual camera to detect (motion, person, baby crying). You can set the exact area of the image you want it to monitor and which area you want it to ignore. On the C200, you can also pan, tilt, patrol using the app. You can change the resolution of the recording depending on your internet speed. You can also change the motion sensitivity of each camera. The cameras come with a slot for a micro SD card. When the card is full it automatically overwrites the oldest recordings. There is also a brilliant cloud storage feature. Currently I am on the free trial and find it quite useful, though it’s not a necessity if you are using the micro sd storage.Some areas for improvement. Just my suggestions:1. Stronger WiFi connectivity. On the lower end models like the C100, the WiFi pickup range is lower than the C200 so I am having to use WiFi extenders.2. Ability to switch WiFi network. In the TAPO app, it would be helpful if we could log in to the camera and switch it to a different WiFi network if and when needed. Unfortunately, now, once it’s set up with a given network, and if you want to switch it to a different one, you have to reset the whole camera and set it up again.3. Multicamera simultaneous monitoring. As I have 6 cameras installed, I missed the ability to view all 6 feeds at the same time. It would be great if this feature could be built into the TAPO app. Currently, you can only view 4 cameras at a time.4. Casting - When playing back a feed or a recording, it will be helpful to include a casting feature that will enable users to cast the video to a smart TV if we want to view it on a larger screen.5. Bitrate / compression selection - currently, you cannot alter the recording bitrate of the videos, only the resolution. It will be helpful to have this feature in case we need to capture more detail for certain angles.6. Internal battery backup - nowadays, the smallest of devices have an internal rechargeable battery to keep them running. It would be helpful for these cameras to have an internal battery that can at least run them for an hour or two in case there is a power cut or an intruder cuts the wire.Overall, a solid line of products and very affordable as well. I hope there are more features rolled out via firmware upgrades and app updates.
R**J
Tapo c225 is jack of all trades - Amazing Product
A feature rich camera.There are a lot of pros for this camera:1. Great Price and is loaded with features2. Camera quality is very good with 4mp semsor offering 2k resolution3. Works as an excellent baby monitor for noise and movement detection allowing you to demarkate the detection area in app qlong with the sensitivity selection. The notification is prompt to baby cry or movement.4. Easy to setup and use. The app UI is also very easy to navigate.5. The charger cable length is sufficiently long more than 10 ftThe cons are as follows:1. Works only on 2.4ghz wifi frequency2. The app gives an offline error - has happened twice now in 1 week use3. The view ange could have been a little wide
**N
Value for money
Fantastic product with mind blowing night visionMotion sensor and two way communications are really goodQuality of product is very good
S**A
Happy
Great product interns of picture quality, easy to use,
U**
Highly recommend
Will recommend this camera for its ease of use, picture quality, can talk to person through the app. It’s sturdy and looks appealing too.
M**L
Average Camera
Hi All, I am using this camera for few month's. Here is my experience:Once connected to WiFi network. If you want to change the WiFi network, we need to reset the camera. It's takes a while but works eventually.Sometimes it is slow to respond remotely, if it gets stuck it resets itself and becomes normal which is a good thing and colour are average in night or evening. Day time colour is fine.WiFi should be good. Inorder to use the camera. Or else, when you are remotely viewing the live feed and you change the angle, it can go dark on screen. But camera is still running. If not fixed we can reboot remotely.Overall product is average. I don't have any specific complaints. Just it can improve a bit more.
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