TP-Link Tapo 1080P Outdoor Wired Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera, 360° View, Motion Tracking, Works with Alexa & Google Home, Night Vision, Free AI Detection, Cloud & SD Card Storage, Tapo C500

I bought a b-team outdoor camera 2-3 years ago and it was out of the box junk. It was more about selling me a subscription than about performing. The C150W is the opposite. It is very responsive and loaded with features through the app. The picture quality is worth $34 and the app will record an entire event, not just 5 seconds. The subscription looks fair enough price wise, but you really don’t need it if you put in a good sized card.The app is very well designed and simple to use.My question is; how will this camera stand up to the test of time?At this point, I am a very satisfied customer.

Based on price, I thought perhaps I'd end up with a dud. Not the case! I've got camera outside perhaps 50 yards from home's router. Downloaded app, which is free and it quickly found the cam. Ability to tilt using app is a plus. I like the date stamp showing. It's outdoors and is perhaps a bit sensitive to notifying me of movement that is perhaps just wind moving plants. Yet it's not sending motion alerts all day. Night view is not too bad. Overall very pleased with this small gem. I did have outdoor GFI outlet, so no problem keeping it powered. Take a look at this excellent quality CAM.

UpdateThese have been great cameras they do lose connection freq but usually will connect back on there own sometimes, I like the functional saved position options also the talk back features capture features like most cameras now but these are good with clarity at nite I can't get the flood lights to work. Overall happy with them the sd card captures footage and loopsRecommendedI'm confused,I thought I was buying a hard wired camera that I could hard wire into my porch light for now to use as security camera, and it came with a plug ??How is this an outdoor camera as instructions say to not get plug wet etc and should be plugged in indoors,Disappointed that there are no bright flood lights like my other cameras from other brands less expensive, and it does not seem to have a color option and seems to be only black and white, the nite vision was ok and has a good distance however the alarm strobe light is useless imo as it is a tiny light that blinks, the alarm on high volume is too low, the adapter plug has a 10ft thin cord it has sd option like all the other cameras do and 2 way talk, it says, have not tested that yet, but cannot find a color option all cameras have this now so I do not see why this one doesn't, I am going to test it for the next 25 days and if it doesn't function well will return it I guess, but I wish they would be more clear about how it is called an outdoor camera yet instructions says not to get adapter wet, set up was not difficult, they all work the same, the Alexa app has it listed as Alexa compatible and I linked it to the app, but overall compared to one I bought that has dual cameras on one for only 16.00 I do t think it is better or worth the extra $It doesn't detect things as I think it should we tested it multiple times, I put sensitivity up high . Either way it's a disappointment when I thought I could wire it into my porch light wiring.So far it is working well has good night vision and even tho black and white and has no flood lights etc it serves it's purpose and tracks motion very well .

I have been in the market for a decent camera for quite some time. Years even. Finally, it appears I found one that deliversI tried many many brands of cameras. The vast majority of them being other cheaper off- brand cameras. Most of them didn’t work right out of the box to failing just under a year of use. Most apps were clunky at best.Enter Tapo cameras. Easy to set up. Great app features. The Tapo app is extremely easy to understand and is thoughtfully designed. Tp-link actually manufactures the Tapo products. And TP-Link has been a very reputable brand over the years.The cameras themselves are good. Good clarity and great night time vision. I appreciate the ability to insert a physical micro sd card for video storage. You aren’t forced into some cloud service for that ability (although it is available if you want it). And yes, you can access all of the sd card footage from the app.There are only a couple of quibbles I have with these. If power goes out, the cameras do need to be manually adjusted back to their “home” position once power is restored. It would be infinitely helpful if there was an actual “home position” setting to commit the cameras to. So they will go back to this position in the event of a power outage. It’s annoying because all of your settings pretty much rely on this home position to function as desiredThe other quibble is if the WiFi ever changes the cameras have to be removed from your app and re-added to change what WiFi they are connected to. There really should be a WiFi change option in the app to handle this easily.Other than those two things I really appreciate how well these work. The motion tracking option isn’t bad (it’s not great though often moving too slow to keep up with the target). But it does move fast enough to keep the target within the field of view longer than a stationary camera would.The alarm function is nifty too. Set on a schedule (I have mine set at night) it will produce any number of variables like flashing lights and alert sirens if it detects people in the area. Good little feature to have to scare away someone if they think they just set off an alarm. Alternatively you can upload your own sound clip if you want verbal feedback towards your intended target.All in all these are great cameras. Now to see how they function in the long term.EDIT: After writing this review, I found in the app that you can set up to 3 different views for each camera as sort of a "pre-set". So, this makes it slightly less combersome to move the cameras back to the home position should they need to be manually moved back after a power outage.Also it's noteworthy to mention that shadows will set these cameras off no matter what the sensitivity settings are set to. So, on windy days the cameras are all over the place trying to chase the shadows. Also, this prevents them from returning back to the "home" position. Speaking of how they move, they are super clunky in their movements. Making motion tracking difficult for them to keep up with anything moving slower than a slow walk. I think the tracking should be sped up for this. Also, motion tracking does not work if motion is turned off. So if you just want it to track "people" it can't. Seems like an easy thing to implement if you want to void shadow tracking and only want people to be tracked.EDIT2: Just thought I would update my review to include more information after having the cameras for a bit now. I have now turned motion tracking off. The reason being is that, as time goes on they get worse at moving to track anything. They also randomly get stuck in the field of view when tracking something and then start erroneously tracking everything all over the place after that. Never returning to the home position. So, what you get is eventually the camera will drift so far away from home position you will often get the camera just looking at the ground or up in the air somewhere until you manually re-adjust them back yourself. I knocked off a star for this as it's a feature that seems to be more of a gimmick than a real useful function. I really do home they can update the firmware and app to make this feature more useful in the future.

First outdoor Tapo, I have two indoor units. Easy to install, Android app is mostly easy to use and reliable both on my smart phone and tablet. An interface to a web browser would be nice but its not a critical requirement. Camera was very easy to mount. The instruction are decent and the downloadable manual even better. The camera just works, is inexpensive and seems to be well supported. T_Link is a brand of network gear that I have used successfully over the years. I have used other brands and installed many for friends and family. None are better at this or even double the price point.