Smart Camera C200

[Beronike Watkin]

Ihave found the best way to manage viewing images sent from the cameras is by having cameras hanging upside down. Unfortunately, as supplied they only come together with a small backplate which the instructions claim will enable the camera to hang on a wall. I've found when mounted this way I cannot get useful views with pan/tilt. So I far prefer a wall mounting bracket at right angles to the wall to enable the camera to be mounted hanging downwards. I've had to fudge this by adapting mountings previously used by other devices. Why doesn't the manufacturer include a similar mounting bracket to enable to camera to hang upside down on a wall?

2 Installing an SD card

Once having installed a suitable SD card in a new camera, the first time I open the Tapo app and select his camera, it tells me the SD card is corrupt and needs to be formatted. This may be OK when I open the app my first mobile device. However, when I open the app on a new (second and subsequent) mobile device it once again tells me the very same SD card is corrupt and will need to be formatted. This pantomime continues for every new mobile device where I open the Tapo app for the first time. This seems quite nonsensical - surely a single formatting of the SD card by the first mobile device that accessed the camera should be enough without it having to be reformatted time and time again whenever I have a new (additional) mobile device that accesses the same camera with the SD card previously formatted by the earlier mobile device?

3 Viewing and deleting video clips stored on my SD cards

I have set my cameras to record video upon detecting motion. This seems to work fine. However, often a camera may be activated dozens of times a day and each time record a new clip. The problem I have is when viewing the dozens of clips, many do not need to be retained. To clear this clutter, I want to delete such individual clips (and maybe only retain the odd few other clips). I've spent considerable time, but have not yet found a way of deleting unwanted individual clips from the SD card. The result is that I end up with hundreds of unwanted clips when maybe I would only want to retain the odd one or two clips for future reference..

They did indeed accept some of my suggestions and, hopefully in due course I will see the result. However in one respect they did not. This is regarding my difficulty when going over and viewing recent video clips. In practice I want to discard most of them but once in a while there may be the odd one I wish to retain. Their response to this was:

That to me is not the way to do things. Having a number of C200s attached to walls, the thought of climbing up walls struggling to remove the SD card and then loading it up a computer to try to retrieve the odd one or two clips from the hundreds (or thousands) on the card seems totally absurd. Aren't TP-Link aware that in the Tapo App there is actually a Playback & Memory facility? Once a clip is in the Memory section it most certainly can be downloaded and surely this is the way to do it. However, the current problem I have is how do I select a clip to go into Memory? I had assumed while I'm viewing a clip there would be a select button to move the clip into Memory. Does anyone know a way of doing goths and that will instantly solve my biggest problem?

Of course it sounds reasonable because it is a simple feature and easy to implement! Do get fooled by the programmers!

The absence of the ability to delete recordings from the sd card via the app gives the impression that the user should be pushed to use the cloud service instead of the sd card. Climbing a ladder to remove the sd card and than use a pc to delete files is so old school (even before the 90s) that I can't beleive it.

An in addition: I want a decent webinterface with PTZ, ftp upload and all the state-of-the-art features, I don't want to have my smartphone turned on to check if there are any recordings... This concept is a step back!

Thanks very much for your valued suggestions again. Deleting the files or recordings from the SD card directly on the Tapo app has been forwarded to the developer and they will evaluate the feasibility, please be more patient with new firmware updates.

What's a "bug of Android app"? I have been using Android for years and currently have many hundreds of apps which all work fine. You have made no effort to explain what this bug is, so please document it here and also pass it to the developers of the Tapo app and get them to fix it.

@Ojos Just purchase my first tapo c200 today at first it was working very fine and i was about to sleep to i check the camera for the last time and this time tapo is not rotating and keeps on saying that the pan tilt reach to its maximum even if its not rotating.. how can i fix this?

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i am currently in the market for a smart camera(outdoor) witch one integrates best with homey, like taking snapshot on event or start flow when motion is detected?

Maybe trough IFTTT or similar service.

a) has a API

b) tits an Official API - that is the API is open and supported by the company and not hacked together

c) the API has documentation

d) The device is common enough that someone who can develop an app will have it.

Generally speaking Netatmo is supported by Athom and has external presence camera that can trigger flows on motion. I do not have it but some searching on the forum I see there are users actively using it.

It says in their faq that its compatible with RTSP-stream protocol: -link.com/uk/support/faq/2680/ I suppose it then would be compatible with the standard IP-camera app in Homey? Anyone got experience with the TP-links Tapo series and Homey?

Ok, I understand. In the faq they show how to pick up the camera stream in iSpy app for Windows, it looks like it use the onvif standard? Would it then be compatible with the Onvif Camera app for Homey? The C200 camera is not listed on www.onvif.org but maybe it could work anyway?

Yes, I got the C200 camera and it partly works with Homey and the ONvif app. I got it detected as a ONvif-device. Motion detection and tamper alarm works fine in Homey but no support for snapshot URL, i.e. no images from the camera in Homey. Im using the standalone Tapo app for all the monitoring.

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