TP-Link Tapo 2K QHD Outdoor Pan/Tilt Wi-Fi Security Camera, 360° View, Motion Tracking, Color Night Vision, Free Person/Vehicle/Motion Detection, Cloud & SD Card Storage, 24/7 Recording, Tapo C520WS…

Goodbye Wyze, hello Tapo!
I’ll be writing this on all the Tapo cameras I’ve recently purchased. (4x C110, 2x C210, 2x C520WS)These are flawless, amazing, and so far ahead of Wyze it’s not even funny. They are massively affordable, truly need no subscription, have fantastic features in their app, can record locally to an SD card; everything you would want. Coming from Wyze (see more below), I didn’t know that cameras were supposed to act like this. I assumed, at Wyze prices, that I was getting what I paid for. But when I finally had enough constant stress and spent the money to change to Tapo… my life has been changed. Seriously, I probably added years to my life not being so stressed out all the time because my cameras never, ever worked right. These do, and I cannot say it enough times… if you’re currently using Wyze then get one of these. Use it for a week side-by-side and tell me what you think.Super light, have a few of mine mounted with ‘hard plastic velcro’ (3M Dual Lock). Setup is fast and easy, and works right away. Don’t have to do it over and over again (Wyze). Clarity is superb – 1440p quality. Night vision is phenomenal. Don’t really care about ‘color’ night vision – but my outdoor ones do have it. And one of the best parts is Tapo is part of TP-Link. What does that mean? TP-Link has been around for a very long time, and they specialize in networking equipment, LoL. So yeah, if you want a reliable camera on your network, who better to trust than a networking company.TLDR: Don’t waste your time on any other brand. Buy these. I promise you won’t regret it.About Wyze:If you’re like me and never wanted to spend thousands on home monitoring and security, then you may have stumbled upon Wyze cameras. At first, they were amazing – very affordable with no subscription necessary. And they worked. Over time, that changed drastically as they ventured into making everything else on the planet instead of focusing on their roots (cameras). They funded that stuff by changing to a subscription policy. And in their haste had multiple security breaches and problems such as other people viewing cameras that aren’t theirs. This is of course while the software and hardware has become so incredibly bad that they’re unusable. I mean, they actually do not function 92% of the time. Whether it’s freezing, not connecting, stuttering so bad that it looks like a PowerPoint presentation, app for closing, etc.

Perfect for high performance/low effort installation
I’ve had this camera for about a week now, and so far it has been great.After opening the package and setting it all up went relatively smooth. There was a small problem with having the device connect to my phone but when I just reset the pairing process it eventually worked itself out.I bought a 512 gig sd card that is installed in the back of the camera. Getting to that area was a little dumb because I had to turn a certain way to get to it, and I had to install it while the device was on so the card could be formatted. It says you cannot pre-format or use sd cards that have been formatted from another device so you have to get one new. That’s not the biggest problem because a 512 gb sd card is recording about a months worth of video on 24/7 record mode and it’s supposed to just reuse that data after it runs out so I’ll be curious to see how it runs when I’m out of space and it has to record over previously recorded video.Some of the zones you make for detecting things gets warped after the camera has moved around a lot. I don’t know why, but it always seems to fix itself after a while.This camera has a lot of features I didn’t even know of when I got it that I think makes this a no brainer for first time camera owners likeyself. It moves and tracks things when it’s detected. So you can set it up to see a wide range of things and it will follow them up to your doorway so you always see that object it detected which I think is incredible for a device like this, and the price. It works great with my phone and my phone is nearly 4 years old.Installation was as easy as can be. Not a problem thereLastly, I did get the Alexa box that it’s compatible with and it was super easy getting that to work together. Only problem with that is after about 5 minutes or so of having the camera being shown on the screen of my Alexa, the camera latency seems to tank and it will need a refresh. But otherwise is extremely great.This product is great. I stand by all five stars I give it, even with it’s very very tiny flaws.

This is a very inexpensive quality security cam. It offers flexibility in how you want to use it. You have the ability to use it with your smart phone and install localy (store videos on a memory card or you can subscribe to their web storage for a very small fee. I have my cams connected to a BlueIris server and the PTZ functions perfectly.The video and audio is very good. The setup is not complicated becuase you use the Tapo application on your smart phone — just follow each step as instructed and let it do its thing. Once install on the app you have the option in setting it up for Onvif if needed.Tapo is owned by TP-Link — a well known brand that has not disappointed me so far. All my TP-Link routers (and other gadgets) have performed better than the other brands that I have owned. A very good reliable company.

Andaba buscando una camara para exterirores que no fuera muy grande, que estuviera motorizada y que no usara antenas, despues de muchas vueltas encontre este modelo.Al principio estaba esceptico, pero aproveche a que podia devolverlo para hacer una prueba y desde que la conecte quede encantado.El seguimiento de movimiento es excelente, la detección es muy precisa, la calidad del video es aceptable.La manera de montarla no me pareció la mejor, para mi gusto, cuando se monta en el techo queda como un tipo escalon hacia abajo asi que en realidad la camara queda un poco despegada del techo, no me gusta porque siento que le quita estabilidad a la instalacion, pero fuera de eso no le veo otro problema.Algo que detecte a la hora de instalar es que, cuando quieres acceder al area de la tarjeta SD y el boton de reset tienes que quitar dos pequeños tornillos, estos no estan asegurados a la plaquita asi que es bien facil que se te caigan y se pierdan (ya me paso). Aparte el acceso a esa parte esta en la seccion mas oculta de la camara, lo cual es bueno por seguridad pero hay que rotarla para llegar ahi y si aun no esta conectada lo tienes que hacer manual, lo cual me lleva a mi siguiente punto.Cuando la movi para acceder al boton de reset, note que el movimiento es mas ruidoso, no se si dañe el mecanismo de movimiento o que, sin embargo, despues de un rato de mover la camara el ruido se quita, pero eventualmente se escucha. No se si fue un error mio o que, pero desde que la monte en el techo (inicialmente la tenia en una mesa) empezo a hacer ese ruido.Por otro lado la aplicacion tiene muchas opciones, es muy facil de configurar y conectar, lo que he visto es que a veces no muestra ningun dispositivo y tienes que reiniciarla.El movimiento de la camara de la app es bueno, solo que tiene algo de delay, pero no lo veo tanto como problema pues siento que eso se usa muy poco o al menos no diario, pero cada quien.En general es una buena camara, yo si me compraria otra para alguna otra aplicacion.