TP-Link Tapo 2K Pan/Tilt Security Camera for Baby Monitor, Pet Camera w/ Motion Detection and Tracking, 2-Way Audio, Night Vision, Cloud & SD Card Storage, Works w/ Alexa & Google Home (Tapo C210)

Bought these on a nice sale to replace some Wyze cameras that weren't compatible with Home Assistant. We already have a slew of Kasa/Tapo products in the house, and these days I'm just interested in reducing the number of third-party app-enabled devices in my home and on my network. I've never had a bad experience with TP-Link's network devices, and the same goes for these. Seamless integration with Home Assistant, allowing me to control and view the cameras from the HA app. The pan/tilt feature is a nice addition after having nothing but stationary Wyze cams . Also have to say the Tapo app is vastly superior to Wyze's ad-plagued app, so if you're not a HA user, and just want a nice, clean app UI, the Tapo is the way to go.I bumped the resolution up to 2K, and it's a marginal improvement over the default 1080p. That being said, it's still a good quality image, even in low light. Sound functions as expected. Not booming loud by any means, but loud enough to communicate if you ever find the need to (I never have).

This is my 5th Tapo camera over the last year and I have been nothing but impressed with these cameras and their app. After trial and error with a couple other brands I contend that Tapo’s camera/app package offers quality, operation and reliability at a good value. The camera(s) are well made using good materials. Image quality is very good both day and night. The setup on these is very simple using the app. The app is intuitive, simple to navigate, easily supports multiple cameras. Operation of the camera via the app is smooth with minimal latency issues. I successfully use the optional mini SD chip for storage as I am adverse to subscriptions. I highly recommend Tapo camera products and will not hesitate to seek them out for future needs.

Makes nice images, can see in the dark with IR illumination built in, lots of features, especially considering the price. Two way audio. Has full time or motion triggered loop recording.Good app that works better on a tablet than a phone, especially when reviewing footage from the internal microSD card that you have to supply. Quick and accurate response from support when I had an issue. They also offer cloud storage.The one small issue I found is that the pan/tilt motors are noisy, and if you set the thing up to track motion (like for an intruder) it becomes obvious there is a camera present. But that is to be expected at this price point.I've recommended these to several friends, and they have all been happy with theirs.

This review is for TP-Link Tapo 2K Pan/Tilt Indoor Security Camera for Baby Monitor, Pet Camera | Motion Detection & Tracking | 2-Way Audio | Cloud & SD Card Storage | Works w/Alexa & Google Home | Black | Tapo C211.Great video quality in 2K or 1080P but loses some details farther away, which is expected. So while I can zoom in on something, it does lose sharpness if it’s far away. I use it to watch my senior dog when he’s home alone. Setting up the camera is pretty easy by just following the quick setup guide. However, if you have VPN installed on your phone, turn this off first before you proceed or you will have a hard time connecting to the camera and your wi-fi. You can turn the vpn back on afterward. So basically 1) Pause vpn, if applicable 2) connect the phone to the camera wi-fi ID and once that’s connected then 3) connect your phone to your own wi-fi 2.4Ghz network and then 4) resume vpn, if paused earlier. If you don’t turn off vpn you will waste a lot of time trying to figure out why the camera could not connect to your WiFi. Been there done it and this is my 7th Tapo camera setup so just saying…I like Tapo specifically because I don’t have to buy cloud storage. This means that if you don't buy the cloud service or do not have a microSD, the camera will not record any activity by itself. It will still notify you of the activities you’ve set up to be notified about but it will not be possible to see what had just transpired without a microSD. I personally use a high endurance one that is designed specifically for monitoring cameras and dashcams, not just a phone microSD, because it needs to be able to handle the amount of read-write-retrieve that these cameras require. This is the one I use for all my cameras, if interested: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NY23WBG Just don’t go beyond the 512Gb limit for this camera.The camera is very good in general but I noticed that it can also lose track of me in terms of motion tracking and pan/tilting especially when I’m wearing dark clothing. After a while it would go back to the original position, leaving me baffled at times. It has also gone offline regularly for no apparent reason so I had to disable motion sensing which took care of that problem but it defeats the purpose of that feature! I thought the unit would rotate in the middle, at the ball joint, but it actually rotates at the base. I can hear it move and I leave the status light on to alert me that it’s on when I’m home so that I can remember to go into privacy mode and turn off the camera. This is usually when I wish that there is a Watch app that I can just click to turn on/off the camera without opening up the whole app to do this. There is a Home/Away mode for this though which can be set up automatically. Everything you need is in the app and I think it’s a great app. They’ve updated it a few times since I’ve been using it and it gets better every time. There’s always something new to play around with and explore. I love being able to download the video to my phone to share with friends and family. The only thing I do find annoying is that it will prompt me regularly every 5 minutes to continue monitoring and I have to respond or the screen is frozen. This defeats the purpose of it being a full fledged monitoring camera so it’s not great for baby monitoring. Something to keep in mind.Overall, this is a pretty good camera and is feature packed like all my other Tapo cameras but it had some quirks for me like losing track of where I walked and also going offline until I stopped motion sensing completely. It has great night vision and very crisp daylight videos though. It’s just a matter of fine tuning the settings to get things to behave the way you want that can take some time to get right. I don’t like subscribing to anything so the best part is that no subscription is required! I would give it a 4.0/5.0 - 03/11/2024.Side note: You only need to do the setup on one phone and will be able to view the camera on all your other devices whether iPad or whatever other tablets once you log on to the Tapo app. However, you will -not- be able to view the cameras on your laptop or the web by inputting the ip address in the browser (I’ve tried). Well, I’ve never found a way to do this and I’m not that tech savvy to figure it out but it may be possible using some other authentication method.Also, you can set the camera to do continuous recording vs only detection recording (Default) by going to Setting - Storage & Recording - Recording Schedule and editing the time blocks from Orange (Only when something is detected) to Blue (Always record) or even to White (Don’t record anything).Note that your phone can be connected to the 5GHz wifi all the time but the cameras will only use 2.4GHz by default. Many cameras only support 2.4GHz. As far as I can tell, it will not support or connect to any unsecure wifi network. It seems to only support WPA or WPA2 encryptions. WEP, Portal, WPA/WPA2-enterprise, or WPA3-only networks are not supported.If your internet drops, you can still use the cameras or watch live views without an internet connection if you are connected to the same wireless network. However, you won’t get any notifications since this requires internet access.I have the Tp-Link Wifi extender (RE220) and I use the Tapo Tethers app to connect half of my cameras to the hidden SSID (_ext) I set up in the app. I would recommend it if you want to have a greater wifi range.06/04/2024: Note: If you set up this camera to turn on and off with another camera (like with Leave Home or Arrive Home automation), and you turn on the other camera, this camera will also turn on by itself as soon as you appear in front of it (despite being in Privacy Mode i.e. camera is OFF). I believe this is a serious bug and so don’t be surprised to find the camera has turned on all by itself even if you have privacy set to ON, if you have this type of setup. Otherwise, it will stay shut down in privacy mode. If you don’t want this to happen then do not add this camera to your automation routine. However, this doesn’t just happen with this camera. It happens with all my other Tapo cameras as well that are linked with a motion sensing camera such as this one. For example, if you set Arrive Home to turn OFF both this camera and a non-motion sensing one, and you manually turned on this motion sensing camera, it will also force the other non-motion sensing one to come on as well so be careful with this type of setup lest you find it recording you doing something you may not want to be seen on camera. LOL Hopefully, Tapo will address this issue in one of their future software releases but be warned!!!

Super easy to set up. Wall / ceiling mounting is a breeze and crucial. The one negative is you may mount with the camera angled weirdly and you have to remove the mount and do it all again. The camera covers all the angles and the different modes you can use are awesome. Sound quality and picture are really good.

Love so far, been using about a week now and the pan and tilt option is so amazing. The price point is terrific, easy to install. Quality is great, even the monthly plans are if you decide to them are inexpensive in comparison to the competition. I've been using Arlo cameras for the longest time and their new generation had a privacy shield that you could not manually override unless choosing away/home option. So I returned those and purchased these the two pack of Tapo c211 that cost the same as one Arlo. I'm happy with my purchase.

Comparé muchas marcas y precios y definitivamente fué la mejor decisión, la calidad del producto es muy superior respecto a otras, la resolución del vídeo tanto diurno o nocturno es excelente, la facilidad para instalar y configurar, la opción de grabar en la nube o en tarjeta SD lo hacen versátil.Lo único sería que para mí, es un poco costoso el pago de almacenamiento en la nube, tendría que esperar a una oferta.