The innovative design includes a modular solar panel that continuously charges the built-in battery, ensuring your camera remains powered. Even on cloudy days or extended periods without sunlight, the fully charged battery can provide up to 180 days* of uninterrupted performance.
Enjoy the flexibility of wire-free installation
Receive real-time alerts for true security concerns with free person/vehicle detection, eliminating false detection from other objects.
Store footage locally via a microSD card (up to 512GB)* or via cloud with a Tapo Care cloud subscription.
Capture vibrant color night vision up to 30ft away for enhanced security to monitor for possible intruders or motion.
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The innovative design includes a modular solar panel that continuously charges the built-in battery, ensuring your camera remains powered. Even on cloudy days or extended periods without sunlight, the fully charged battery can provide up to 180 days* of uninterrupted performance.
Enjoy the flexibility of wire-free installation
Receive real-time alerts for true security concerns with free person/vehicle detection, eliminating false detection from other objects.
Store footage locally via a microSD card (up to 512GB)* or via cloud with a Tapo Care cloud subscription.
Capture vibrant color night vision up to 30ft away for enhanced security to monitor for possible intruders or motion.
Model: TP-Link 𝗧𝗮𝗽𝗼 SolarCam C402 Kit, Outdoor Battery Camera w/Solar Panel Base, Wireless, 1080P, Free Person/Vehicle Detection, SD/Cloud Storage, Color Night Vision, No Hub Needed, Works w/Alexa
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The solar is there just to charge the battery, not to run the camera... so it would not really be able to keep up with 24/7 recording.
The best way I found to eliminate bushes and flags is to only turn on detection for PETS, VEHICLES, and PERSONS. With this setting, I do not get any detection for things blowing in the breeze.
Bought this on the last deal. The downside on this camera, compared to other wired Tapo cameras, is that it won't record continuously on to the SD card, just when it detects motion.
It was sitting at $40 for a long time, was briefly up to $50 for like a week. And it's been available for about $30 too
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March 27 - April 23 @ $40 (with occasional coupons thrown in making it lower)
April 24 - April 30 @ $50...
May 1 @ $40 once again
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Huh? IT IS NOT FIXED in one position. Notice the swivel the camera is attached to. Also the solar power cord. I have one. I have the box right in front of me. Included is a separate mount for the solar panel, and a VERY long power cable if needed. One of the photos shown, show the solar and the camera separated from each other.
Dude, can you rotate the camera automatically from your app. I guessed Not. I don't see how you can rotate the camera from your app. That's what I was talking about.
Do you have a link of one you would recommend? Amazon is overflowing with crap China brands, I have a hard time discerning the quality China product over the cheap crap one...
Here is one of them. There are a lot of them which are sold around the same price and all are rated at least 4.3. Rotating 360 degrees feature is very convenient. The app is also the most important thing too. Good camera with a bad app is a waste of money.
SEHMUA Solar Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor, 2K 360° View Battery Powered Outdoor Camera, WiFi Home Security with Spotlight Color Night Vision, PIR Sensor https://a.co/d/feSaXSs
Although this isn't a ptz camera I'm really impressed with it. I paid a $100 for the eufy spotlight solar cam s230 and this one is about the same. Being only $40 is amazing, you could cover your entire house with these.
Here is one of them. There are a lot of them which are sold around the same price and all are rated at least 4.3. Rotating 360 degrees feature is very convenient. The app is also the most important thing too. Good camera with a bad app is a waste of money.SEHMUA Solar Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor, 2K 360° View Battery Powered Outdoor Camera, WiFi Home Security with Spotlight Color Night Vision, PIR Sensor https://a.co/d/feSaXSs
Do you know of any that will upload to ftp or e-mail rather than local storage? At least that would enable external triggers to do stuff when motion is detected like turn on lights or home automation stuff.
Frustrating all these cameras just have closed ecosystems where they want you to only use their apps.
I bought a bunch of these last year and most of them run great and meet my needs.
The one drawback, however, is if you have to submit a warranty claim, you are responsible for shipping costs to TP-link.
The solar on this camera works great and the picture is crisp. HOWEVER, the detection is horrible, it hardly ever detects anything. When you view the picture it shows whatever you are looking at as very far away. I have tried increasing sensitivity and everything else to get it to pick up motion and it doesn't help. It is too bad because as I said, the solar part is great, even in the winter was 100% and the picture quality is very good. I bought it to put in an area with no access to connect wired. Too bad it doesn't actually take many pictures! I would not recommend. I have other wired Kasa cameras that are much better.
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Bought it last time for same price, within 2/3 months stopped working due to rain water went inside, contacted customer service, they are okay to resend another unit but asking me to pay for rerun shipping. I would not buy this product.
Tapo is such trash. Have had a ton of problems in 1st year that I never had with Wyze over a decade. Customer support is even trashier.
Agree. I had major headache with Tapo D130 doorbell camera. Returned it and bought the same model again. Picture quality sucked. Took forever to load…never Tapo again.
However, if the trees create shadows that are in the middle of the viewing area, there's no way around it but to turn motion detection off.
That indeed can be problematic.
1- You can set up a scheduled task program in the app to omit the time shadows on the ground appears, and when you want to detect motion, to be excluded from daily-time, so it does the rest automatically.
2- You may look at other angles and other sites for installation, especially since this camera is totally wireless, you may use it on the tree or its fixed branches where shadows may not be seen(As long as your WiFi range permits).
3- If the trees are yours, you may consider trimming as needed, or if the city's, talk to them, if that is an option.
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I don't think this is a problem particular to Tapo, though.
What's funnier is occasionally it detects long shadows as limbs of a person and thus triggers person detection. That indeed can be problematic.
The Problem is actually related to this Tapo and every other camera that uses motion on pixel detection as a triggering factor for motion notification.
Almost all manufacturers have cameras with different systems that work not by pixel movement, but by detection of a body of heat(As a human body/an animal/a car, or a motor generates), as the source of motion. This is called Passive Infra Red detection, or in short and common words, a PIR system. This way, a shadow, a moving tree branch by the wind, or a falling leaf can't falsely activate motion detection notification.
Problems:
-PIR on cheap systems is not really that accurate and acts as a hit-or-miss phenomenon mostly.
-Typically, the range of PIR detection is short, say up to 30 feet, unless you go for better systems.
Additionally, and with the help of better AI incorporation in more recent cameras' software, you can name objects, say Cars, Animal, Parcel, Suspicious behavior of human-in-view, etc., to trigger detection, but this is still with its own caveats, and then, mostly offer it as a paid addition service, usually only once you subscribe to their ridiculously expensive subscription services!
Recording is absolute trash. Tons of skipping and missing footage. Monitoring device at best. Also the quality of tapo is sh1t
Very typical of every camera in the market, even at higher price tags.
Give me a name of a camera that can do this flawlessly, at least acceptable, even at up to 3x the price of this deal!
Would someone be able to recommend a good solar cam (wireless) that support RTSP? Perhaps one that have a larger battery that could record 24x7, thanks.
It doesn't exist. Requires too much power for small panels. You could DIY it, but panels just big enough for RTSP cameras (25-50W) are not popular, and thus not easy to find. And it would be clunky looking, if you care. And you need a battery that will reliably stay on without manual adjustment and charge/discharge at the same time (which makes portable power supplies tricky). FYI, I tried to set one up like this and gave up.
All of the above is probably why we haven't seen a commercial AIO version. It would be stupid expensive for a single camera (due to bigger battery and panel), and they'd be big and ugly.
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The best way I found to eliminate bushes and flags is to only turn on detection for PETS, VEHICLES, and PERSONS. With this setting, I do not get any detection for things blowing in the breeze.
Edit:
March 27 - April 23 @ $40 (with occasional coupons thrown in making it lower)
April 24 - April 30 @ $50...
May 1 @ $40 once again
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SEHMUA Solar Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor, 2K 360° View Battery Powered Outdoor Camera, WiFi Home Security with Spotlight Color Night Vision, PIR Sensor https://a.co/d/feSaXSs
No idea how it's economical.
Frustrating all these cameras just have closed ecosystems where they want you to only use their apps.
The one drawback, however, is if you have to submit a warranty claim, you are responsible for shipping costs to TP-link.
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That indeed can be problematic.
2- You may look at other angles and other sites for installation, especially since this camera is totally wireless, you may use it on the tree or its fixed branches where shadows may not be seen(As long as your WiFi range permits).
3- If the trees are yours, you may consider trimming as needed, or if the city's, talk to them, if that is an option.
What's funnier is occasionally it detects long shadows as limbs of a person and thus triggers person detection. That indeed can be problematic.
Almost all manufacturers have cameras with different systems that work not by pixel movement, but by detection of a body of heat(As a human body/an animal/a car, or a motor generates), as the source of motion. This is called Passive Infra Red detection, or in short and common words, a PIR system. This way, a shadow, a moving tree branch by the wind, or a falling leaf can't falsely activate motion detection notification.
Problems:
-PIR on cheap systems is not really that accurate and acts as a hit-or-miss phenomenon mostly.
-Typically, the range of PIR detection is short, say up to 30 feet, unless you go for better systems.
Additionally, and with the help of better AI incorporation in more recent cameras' software, you can name objects, say Cars, Animal, Parcel, Suspicious behavior of human-in-view, etc., to trigger detection, but this is still with its own caveats, and then, mostly offer it as a paid addition service, usually only once you subscribe to their ridiculously expensive subscription services!
Give me a name of a camera that can do this flawlessly, at least acceptable, even at up to 3x the price of this deal!
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All of the above is probably why we haven't seen a commercial AIO version. It would be stupid expensive for a single camera (due to bigger battery and panel), and they'd be big and ugly.
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