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3,0 van 5 sterrenCould be the awesome but....
Beoordeeld in Nederland op 17 mei 2023
This camera has a lot of nice features;
-The AI detection works quite well and is processed inside the camera meaning if you restrict internet access to the camera (for obvious privacy reasons), it still works.
-The Tapo app can also work in local mode so you can even use the app if you are in the same local network.
-It is ONVIF compatible (as are all Tapo cameras) and that's a very big feature in my opinion.
-The Home assistant integration is great and well maintained (nothing to do with TP-Link but a very important aspect since Home assistant will make the use of this camera way more friendly than the Tapo app)
-The "follow mode" where the camera follows movements automatically works great. That means it almost always record what you want to see, no need to manually pan/tilt.
BUT....
-"There is a problem with the SD card".... You will hear that message from the camera a lot, even though the SD card is perfectly fine (tested with various brands, always 128GB cards)
-Downloading recorded videos from the camera's SD card to your phone is so cumbersome that I could say it is impossible (and it is impossible to download them on a PC). If you need to watch something that has been recorded in the camera, the easiest way to do it is to take the SD card out of the camera and put in in your PC.
-In addition to a feature allowing the user to download recorded videos without first recording a "memory", there should be some kind of automatic ftp upload.
-The camera works on 2,4GHz WiFi only, with the relativelly high resolution and bandwidth needed, if you have multiple cameras it is going to saturate the 2,4GHz frequency (I have 9 Tapo cameras and a bunch of IoT stuffs connected using 2,4GHz WiFi to three high end routers in mesh andi t is barely usable)
-I am not sure if it is due to the fact that my 2,4GHz WiFi is completelly saturated or if the current software 1.0.17 has bugs but the cameras crash all the time now (several times a day)
-The only way to catch the person detection event outside of the Tapo app is through Amazon Alexa, it would have been a nice addition to provide detection information using ONVIF (so Home assistant could trigger automations based on the camera's detection).
Conclusion
If like me you want to restrict your cameras to the local network only and use them with third party software they are ok but TP-Link could make these camera so much better with a software update (except for the 2,4GHz WiFi limitation which is a real problem if you have many cameras).