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TP-Link Tapo 2K QHD Indoor/Outdoor Security Camera w/ Color Night Vision

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Amazon has TP-Link Tapo 2K QHD Indoor/Outdoor Security Camera w/ Color Night Vision, Free Person/Pet/Vehicle Detection, Invisible IR Mode, 2-Way Audio, Local & Cloud Storage (Tapo C120) on sale for $29.99 when you apply the $5 off coupon on the product page. Shipping is free with Prime or orders $35+.

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About this Item:
  • The Tapo C120 is not only a compact camera with incredible picture quality suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, but it's also built to withstand rain, dust, and the elements with its robust IP66 weatherproof rating. This feature-packed camera is a remarkable addition to enhance your home security wherever you need visibility.
  • A camera is only as good as the picture it produces. View everything with crystal clear 2K discerning fine detail to ensure nothing goes unseen.
  • The integrated Starlight sensor provides bright colorful video at night, and if the conditions are extra dark, two spotlights will help illuminate the area for a better view.
  • The camera can determine whether an object is a person, pet or vehicle utilizing its AI processing power. You can set alerts to only detect certain objects all for free!
  • Keep all of your recordings on a MicroSD card up to 512GB or via Cloud through a Tapo Care subscription.

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Amazon has TP-Link Tapo 2K QHD Indoor/Outdoor Security Camera w/ Color Night Vision, Free Person/Pet/Vehicle Detection, Invisible IR Mode, 2-Way Audio, Local & Cloud Storage (Tapo C120) on sale for $29.99 when you apply the $5 off coupon on the product page. Shipping is free with Prime or orders $35+.

Thanks to Community Member weikewl for finding this deal.

About this Item:
  • The Tapo C120 is not only a compact camera with incredible picture quality suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, but it's also built to withstand rain, dust, and the elements with its robust IP66 weatherproof rating. This feature-packed camera is a remarkable addition to enhance your home security wherever you need visibility.
  • A camera is only as good as the picture it produces. View everything with crystal clear 2K discerning fine detail to ensure nothing goes unseen.
  • The integrated Starlight sensor provides bright colorful video at night, and if the conditions are extra dark, two spotlights will help illuminate the area for a better view.
  • The camera can determine whether an object is a person, pet or vehicle utilizing its AI processing power. You can set alerts to only detect certain objects all for free!
  • Keep all of your recordings on a MicroSD card up to 512GB or via Cloud through a Tapo Care subscription.

Editor's Notes

Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this Product:
    • This has a 4.4 out of 5 star overall rating on Amazon based on over 3,000 reviews.
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Here's a review on it. My summary, good low light, good image quality, okayish sound, great AI detections. Can be linked to alexa or google to turn things on when it detects a person. The notifications with a thumbnail are behind a paywall which is lame. But $30 for a camera with ai people, vehicle, pet notifications + ai sound detection (breaking glass) WITHOUT a monthly subscription, pretty good.

I bought one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaUkM6Mfxl4
FYI. If you have a Kasa camera and the Kasa cloud subscription for it, Tapo does not recognize that and tries to get you to pay for the Tapo cloud storage.
All but one of my cameras have slots for microSD local storage. So anytime I have to review footage for that camera, I have to use the Kasa app for that.
Also the Tapo app will not allow you to keep your view on for more than a few minutes. I keep a couple of cheap tablets by my desk when I'm working from home, so I can watch for deliveries in the front and watch my dogs when they're outside. Kasa works fine for that most of the time, but Tapo just stops after 5 minutes and pops up a window asking if you want to continue.
Overall, I like the Kasa and Tapo devices, but the Tapo app is missing some features that the Kasa app has
How are these compared to wyze. I'm looking at switching to a different cam set up.

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hdtvset
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Can this connect to Tinycam?
Jan 2, 2024
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a-white-guy
Jan 2, 2024
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Anyone know if this will work with Blue Iris?
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kevn357
Jan 2, 2024
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I need a wyze alternative. Their app has no security auditing or the ability to see logged in devices. Nor do they honor requests by email to provide such logs.
I will take a look at these.
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I want to use this for monitor my 3d printer. Do I have to pay to get the best video quality?
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Quote from tasmanian :
Here's a review on it. My summary, good low light, good image quality, okayish sound, great AI detections. Can be linked to alexa or google to turn things on when it detects a person. The notifications with a thumbnail are behind a paywall which is lame. But $30 for a camera with ai people, vehicle, pet notifications + ai sound detection (breaking glass) WITHOUT a monthly subscription, pretty good.

I bought one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaUkM6Mfxl4
Thank you answered my question about if I have to pay for the features I'm looking for
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far83
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Quote from sv449 :
The tapo app needs work, it updated not long ago and its a litte better. But sometimes it wont load or playback unless i stop app and clear cache. I have a 320ws and the picture is great a little better than eufy but eufy app is more responsive.
I have the 320ws too. Yea, the app needs some work, maybe even compression options to make the picture better. The app doesn't want to play a lot.
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Quote from comfortably-numb :
Does this have RTSP support?
All tapo ones do. From the way the info in the app reads, it disables the cloud stuff when you enable it. My amcrest nvr picked it right up after i enabled it
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Quote from pyroskater85 :
How are these compared to wyze. I'm looking at switching to a different cam set up.
I feel like you already know the answer to this question. What isn't better than Wyze? I've replaced all their cameras and will never buy anything made by them again.
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Serious question for those who have outdoor cameras for security purposes and use the built-in storage: couldn't a thief just remove the camera and eliminate the visual evidence of his break-in (assuming that the camera is reasonably accessible)? Is the hope that the potential intruder does not know whether your storage is in the cloud vs. local?
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I bought 4 pack of the indoor 2k cams before xmas. As a long time eufy cam owner, I like these. These are simple to setup. Even easier if you already have other tplink devices. It's the same app. Also these are lot better to integrate with your own selfhosted NVR software like frigate, since they support RTSP. The tapo cams also seem to be very stable on weaker wifi coverage.
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Quote from Marcus305 :
Serious question for those who have outdoor cameras for security purposes and use the built-in storage: couldn't a thief just remove the camera and eliminate the visual evidence of his break-in (assuming that the camera is reasonably accessible)? Is the hope that the potential intruder does not know whether your storage is in the cloud vs. local?
I was wondering about the same thing.
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Quote from pbanj_ :
All tapo ones do. From the way the info in the app reads, it disables the cloud stuff when you enable it. My amcrest nvr picked it right up after i enabled it
That's a risk one will have with any of these cheap wifi cameras. But if you have it in a location where the thief has to cross a path being monitored by the cameras motion detection, then you should get a notification well before they've had a chance to disable the camera. Another option is to buy an outdoor enclosure to mount it in and that will take some effort to open it before they can get to the ad card. I personally prefer to have these cameras indoors. So they're easy to conceal or cant be easily identified . For outdoors, you're better off getting one that stores the data to an NVR or uploads snippets to the cloud.
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Quote from hdtvset :
Can this connect to Tinycam?
Yes. They support RTSP. So you just need to add the URL to tinycam.

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Quote from Marcus305 :
Serious question for those who have outdoor cameras for security purposes and use the built-in storage: couldn't a thief just remove the camera and eliminate the visual evidence of his break-in (assuming that the camera is reasonably accessible)? Is the hope that the potential intruder does not know whether your storage is in the cloud vs. local?
If you're buying a $30 camera, it's not as some foolproof antitheft measure.

For anyone who actually is using it for that sort of thing though, the thinking is that you slap it somewhere that isn't super obvious in the hope that some petty porch pirate is simply running up and down the steps as fast as possible and isn't even looking for a camera. And if you're that concerned, you mount it someplace high enough that it would take some time to access the camera - time during which you could be alerted to the issue via the app and go scare the loser off.

No one is relying on these for keeping their fortress safe. This is a "better than nothing" tool for petty crimes.

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