5.0 out of 5 stars Best quality/price camera
I am thoroughly impressed with it! The installation process was very easy and straightforward, and I was up and running in no time. The image quality is fantastic and I love how the camera range is designed to leave minimum blind spots. The motion detection feature works great and I’ve been able to receive alerts whenever there is any activity detected in the area that I’m monitoring.

One of the things that I particularly appreciate about this camera is the microphone’s sensitivity. It picks up sounds really well, and I am able to hear everything that’s going on in the area I’m monitoring. Additionally, the night vision is a really nice feature, as it provides clear images even in low light conditions.

Finally, I have to give a shoutout to the app – it’s incredibly intuitive and user-friendly, making it very easy to navigate even for someone who is new to the world of home security cameras. Overall, I highly recommend the TP-Link Tapo camera to anyone looking for an easy-to-use, high-quality security camera for their home or office.

4.0 out of 5 stars great for a low cost panable camera
Do you need a camera to monitor part of the house, the garage, the pets? Do you have a plug nearby? Then this camera is great. It’s not the highest res, but 1080P is very clear and does a good job with night vision even though there are not a lot of IR lights around it. It has a decent amount of rotation and tilt to be able to monitor a pretty wide area.

Setup, was a little quirky. you first connect your phone to the cameras wifi. Then you set the camera to detect the home wifi router, putting in the 2.4ghz password. If that completes, you’re pretty much on your way. If not, you have to repeat this step a couple of times, which happened to me. At first i wasn’t too sure of the setup routine as it wouldn’t complete the setup. Another irritation is, it will say your microsd car isn’t useable. You need to use the tapo app to format the sd card once the phone app and camera are setup, and it should be fine. The phone app lets you take a picture, lets you record and stop recording. What i dont know yet, is it recording per schedule, or recording when you hit the record button while viewing? I will have to check into that, but you get a scheduler like most security cams, with normal recording schedule and motion schedule. It comes with a mount bracket to mount on wall or someplace. I just have it on a desk so i can point it down at where my dog sleeps. You can pan it around and the 1080p picture is clear in daylight and infrared at night. If the setup worked a little better i’d give this 5 stars because the price is great.

So if you need a small camera, that you can just place somewhere in the house in range of your 2.4ghz router, this works and was somewhat easy to set up. 4stars for now, but 5 star price.

i’m updating review since i just bought my 3rd tapo camera. So connection setup must have been fixed somewhat as i was able to set up on first try. It’s still the same though as i mentioned above. What i didn’t mention, is that there is a normal recording schedule which records continuously and a motion recoring schedule which only records when it detects movement. So when you go to play back you will only see snippets of recording if you only selected motion. They added a lot of features which requires some sort of subscription, like i do not use cloud, i dont like my home being stored online. I dont use advanced (subscribed) features like they can send you emails with snapshot for different triggers (movement, person, baby) but you will pay for this email service. It does have notifications though for free and it is just a text msg saying a detection happened, which is good enough for me. Also with other cameras you can filter sections of the screen out, that it wont trigger a notification. This works well unless you follow mode which the camera will try to follow the movement and then the filtered section will now filter areas you didn’t want to. So take that into consideration. Still giving this a 5 for the price of the camera.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great camera and functions for the price
I was a bit hesitant at first seeing how cheap it is but got it after reading reviews
Video quality and app is great, could not ask for more, I ended up buying two!
Got it so I can check on my cats while I am at work and this lets me do exactly that without disturbing them, I can view the entire room thanks to the rotation and tilt ability and night mode and many more!
I can now be at work worry free knowing I can check in on my fur babies anytime (:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for the price, but intermittent playback and connection issues
The price is unbeatable, setup is intuitive and picture quality is decent. Has black and white night vision. But the app suffers from Intermittent playback and connectivity issues.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great camera when using Tapo app — Alexa controls some but not every feature.
We love this camera for checking in our our baby. We can see her using our phone or Echo Show. The quality of the image is great for a security camera. The night vision works well. The camera is cute. I can pan and zoom the camera using the Tapo or Kasa app on my phone from anywhere. It will alert us if someone moves in the room or if she cries (not helpful in our place, but cool). You could also talk to your child/dog/family from your phone to the camera if you wanted.

I can ask Echo Show to show me the camera hands-free which is one of our main wants: to ask to see the baby while we are in the kitchen. This feature is so nice. It’s like being Captain Kirk. Unfortunately, Alexa won’t pan the camera using voice commands, so we have to open the Tapo app with our fingers and pan the camera if she is crawling around.

It’s a great camera for a great price.

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing camera!
Just perfect and for the price, wow! This camera even pans left, right up down! Super great product. The only con is the siren doesn’t work? Only worked once. But other than that it’s a nice camera. I’ve been using it for indoor, but I think it may even be a good outdoor cam as well 👏

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for watching pets
I got this so that I could monitor my dog with separation anxiety. I’ve had some trouble with it randomly deciding to go offline but those bouts last no longer than 2 minutes each. The two way voice feature works great and the night vision gives a clear image of even my all black dog. It allowed me to give a much better descriptor of symptoms to my vet and I would recommend this to anyone in a similar situation.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for keeping an eye on my pup!
Bought this to watch my dog when I leave him alone at home. It was super easy to set up with the special app and very easy to use. The camera can be moved using the app and it also has audio capabilities so you can hear your dog and also talk to him. Very happy with my purchase!

3.0 out of 5 stars Flawed – Better than other New Similar ONVIF/ RTSP IP Cameras
I empathize with other reviewers who staate “Tapo is Crappo”. This new ONVIF/RTSP camera does not compare to the quality or functionality of the older PTZ cameras which had many options and were easy to view/manage in just about any IP Camera viewer app.

For starters, there is no way you can use this camera without installing the Tapo app. Why must you eat up your precious phone memory by installiing a NEW app for every piece of hardware you want to access remotely? Well folks, that seems to be the Brave New World of proprietary products and self-centered corporations manufacturing the products we need.

This camera has no setup where you can browse into the camera and change all the settings.
Can you assign a static IP? NOPE.
Can you assign a custom camera port #? NOPE
Can you assign preset positions? NOPE
Can you use an http browser to connect to the camera, adjust settings, and view streaming video? NOPE, NOPE, and NOPE

The mounting options are cheap. In the past you were given a bracket that allowed you to adjust in the vertical and hoizontal planes. This comes with the cheapest mounting bracket that would be possible for the human brain to conceive.

Is horizontal adjustment possible? NOPE
Is vertical adjustment possible? NOPE

You essentially stick this on any horizonal or surface the way you want it with no possibility to fine turn where the camera is pointing, via bracket. You must “hope” that the PTZ movement of the camera is able to point it where you want to view. If not, then you’re either SOL or you must purchase a camera mounting bracket to give you the movements that should have been included as standard.

Given all I say above, you might be surprised to know that my opinion this camera is that it’s not a bad camera and could be consideered better than average, considering the competition.

Yes, many would consider this crappo and I’d have to include myself in that crowd, but if you consider the limitations vs. price, then this camera becomes a little less crappo because its’ limations can be managed, especially when you consider that all the newer ONVIF/RTSP cameras that I’ve investigated, many at a MUCH higher price, has the same or worse defects than this camera.

So, what were considering is what is the LEAST Crappy camera available?

Believe or not, folks, this is probably the Least Crappy camera out there.

Your system prerequisite if you want to use a non-Tapo view app to view/operat this camera is that you need to setup Port forwardings of 2020 (internal) and 554 (internal) to the IP Address for EACH C200 camera on your network. Your router must be able to make IP Reservatons for DHCP for the IP of this camera. If not, your IP will keep changing and you’ll continually lose remote access to this camera because setting a statis IP Address in camera setup is impossible. But, if you can setup and IP Reservation on your router and can port forward for EACH camera to 2020 and 554 to each camera then you’re likely okay with this camera.

Once this is done, you might be able to view this camera on 3rd party IP Camera viewer app that support ONFIV/RTSP.

Because TAPO is an Alexa skill, it’s pretty easy to view this camera on any Alexa Echo SHOW device. I setup a routine (Named for my cat) that will cause Alexa echo Show to view a fixed position stream of my camera. You CANNOT move the camera using Alexa echo Show, but you can view the camera stream from where it’s positioned right now.

The Tapo cloud service is worthless, but if you add a 128gb micro SD card, then you can save detected motion to know what’s happening when something moves in front of the camera to trigger recoding. This works pretty well and gives you several minutes of recording time. You cannot just click and download these clips, which is idiotic. But, if you play the clip, then click “Record” you can record the playing clip, then download this recording. It’s convoluted, but better than removing the SD card, placing into PC, and copying over the clip(s).

I definitely am not in LOVE with this camera, and if a REAL camera came along that would allow me to view on Alexa echo Show, browse into configure all aspects of the camera, and use on any 3rd party remote view app, then I’d jump ship in a second and buy THAT camera.

But… given that ALL these type cameras SUCK, I woudl choose THIS camera because it sucks at a LOWER price. So, if your camera sucks, it’s better to pay less for a sucky camera, if you can.

Right now with the state of suck in IP Cameras, I’d recommend this camera as a BUY. I don’t like it much, but it’s better than whatever else you might be able to buy at a reasonable price.

Just like when voting for political candidates, sometimes you just have to go with the one that sucks less out of a field of choices that all suck.

Good Luck!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Privacy
Hi has anyone that has purchased this item , heard any strange beeps? I’ve had mine for a bit now and today it made a strange beep , I’ve read user manual and haven’t seen anything mentioned . Can people connect to my monitor without my knowing?