1080P Indoor Pan/Tilt Wired Security Camera - Works as a Baby & Pet Monitor, Motion Detection, 2-Way Audio, Siren, Night Vision, Subscription-Free Local Storage or Optional Cloud, Black, C201

This security camera is great value for the money! Excellent quality picture and audio sound. The setup is very easy and the app is user friendly. I purchased the SD card which is an option, or you can pay for the subscription that is offered. I love the rotating feature of the camera. The night vision is very good. I recommend this product.

This TP-Link Tapo camera is an excellent product. It was very easy to install and set up using the mobile app. The image quality is clear and sharp, and the pan and tilt functions work smoothly, which makes it perfect for monitoring a room, a baby, or pets. It does exactly what it promises in the specifications and has been very reliable so far. Highly recommended.

Very nice camera with lots of great settings. Very affordable. It alerts you with any movement or if a baby is crying. It has night vision mode. You can also set it to move to any motion or movement in the room or leave it still. It connects to your phone so you can check in on animals. You can rotate it from your phone and can speak through the camera. I’ve purchased this twice and recommended it to friends who’ve also purchased this. We will also be purchasing a few outdoor cameras soon.

Tapo Camera/Monitoring System Certainly a fairly economical video monitoring system. We made 2 purchases initially then added another a few weeks later and 1 more for a total of 4 covering 4 different areas/rooms. 3x was 1080HD and 1x was 2k version. It’s been a few months of daily usage and monitoring, for the most part they have been quite beneficial but not without some shortcomings. Below are some pros and cons: PROS: Video: High enough quality for 1080HD, the 2k version does add a bit of extra clarity but at a distance greater than 25 feet it’s only slightly noticeable. Pan/Tilt: It’s a pretty nice feature to have, although a bit of a limitation for the tilt part when it’s standing upright; when it’s mounted on say the ceiling, it offers better range for the tilt. Motion Detection & Tracking: both are nice features to have to trigger the camera, the tracking appears to do a good job in following the movements. Cloud or physical SD card storage: good to have both options available but given our needs a few 128GB and 256GB SD cards worked Modes: day mode, night mode and auto mode settings can be easily toggled depending on the time of day and lighting for better video clarity. In addition, the camera has a built in night vision to aid in video capture during dim lighting. Audio: is sufficient and clear enough during recording and live 2-way Ecosystem: Tapo ecosystem/app isn’t too bad, since we have multiple cameras it’s one Tapo app and all the videos/cameras can be streamed/stored in 1 app and displayed 1 screen at a time or split screens in 2s,3s,4s etc. CONS: One of the features that can be improved is the 2 minute pause. During this time, a note will be prompted “you have viewed the live video for 2 minutes without any operation. continue the viewing? “. We find this feature to be a bit of a nuisance especially if one is looking for a continual visual feed. Video capture: the camera appears to have a sleep mode so there may be a bit of a delay before recording begins, thus sometimes some footages aren’t fully captured, sometimes a few seconds are noticeably missing if not longer; at times we also notice with distances greater than 25 feet, footages aren’t always captured or only partially captured. It’s probably not the cameras fault but if there a bit of a weaker WiFi signal, Interference or dead spot then the monitoring system may not sync with the Tapo camera so no video can be seen. We find the kitchen area next to all the appliances may be causing some interference. During this temporary “outage” the (camera) recording seems to be working just not able to view/monitor. Troubleshooting is as simple as getting closer to the camera with the mobile device, restarting the app or WiFi or restarting the Tapo camera by pulling and replugging it.

The TP-Link Tapo camera works great as a pet camera and it’s an excellent value for the price. This camera was super easy to set up and has all the features I need to check in on my pets when I am sat work or away from home. Picture quality is good and the field of vision adequate, and with the panning feature it is easy to look into different areas of a room. You can pan side to side at least 180 degrees as well as up and down to a certain degree. The camera plus into a wall outlet so there is no concern over battery life. I have another security camera that I use in another area of the house that is rechargeable which is great for an area that isn’t close to a power outlet but you always have to worry about battery life and recharging. No concern with this one. As with other security camera you can set up alerts for motion and it has other features. One feature I like is being able to use a SD card to store pictures and videos rather than use a cloud account although you still have that option for a price. Picture quality is good, the only issue I’ve experienced is when the camera is pointed to a window which makes the picture much darker trying to adjust to the bright light. Other than that it’s worked great for me.

For a cheap little camera, this thing is great and reliable

I got this camera to watch my aging dog while I’m away from the house. It was super easy to set up and the picture is pretty dang clear. I think for the price I paid it is excellent. Bonus I didn’t have to subscribe to anything to get it at the listed price.

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!!