TP-Link Tapo 2K Outdoor Wired Security Camera Expired

Did you try the Starlight though? I have 4 of them. Two indoors in equipment areas (not lit), and two outdoors watching the driveway and entrance. I have zero complaints about night vision with just the IR and I live in a rural area with no streetlights. The "spotlight" feature can be activated if motion is detected and you want full color but I find the IR has better reach.

Not 8k, not 4k, not 1080. Hard pass

Thought about it, but I don't need another app for my cameras.

TP-Links 'motion AI' is absolutely dogshit. If you buy this to point to your front yard, expect a motion alert every time someone drives by at night. It detects the headlights sweeping over your yard as motion so the only way to avoid it is to limit the motion zone down to pretty much right in front of the camera and even with the sensitivity turned all the way down and motion time set to 2+seconds, I still get the occasional alert on a car passing by at night. I had to give up motion alerts on my driveway and front yard and only focus on the stairs leading up to my porch. Stupid.

I bought 3 of these because I was took lazy to pull Ethernet cable to replace some old coax cams. Here's an unbiased and honest review:

Pros:
Easy to install and set up. Wireless connection has been stable. The cameras are fully compatible with Scrypted, which can be run on a Raspberry Pi (or other low-powered computer) and can integrate the cameras into HomeKit (HKSV). Picture quality at 2k is fine. Cameras are very cheap!

Cons:
Cameras have poor average bitrate; many users on the Tapo forum have complained about this, but fast motion can cause the video to become blurry. Night vision isn't great.

Other:
If you have privacy concerns about these cameras, you can set them up in the Tapo app and then completely block the cameras from the internet, if your router allows for it. You will still be able to view them locally in the app, and you will probably still get notifications, but once you disconnect from your local network, the cameras will be inaccessible to you or anyone else. If you use Scrypted to pipe the cameras into HomeKit, you can block access to Tapo but still be able to view the cameras remotely through HomeKit.

I would buy again, but only because they're cheap. I did not go with the Starlight version of these cams because of them needing the always-on light to achieve acceptable night vision. Also, the starlight version of these cams suffers from the same low bitrate issues as most other Tapo cams.