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Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View & Motion Tracking
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Amazon has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
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B&H Photo Video also has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
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TP-Link Tapo Store has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
B&H Photo Video also has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter jk6812 for sharing this deal.
Product Details:
- 3K 5MP resolution with digital zoom for detailed live viewing
- Connects via 2.4GHz Wi-Fi
- 360° horizontal and 135° vertical pan/tilt coverage
- Starlight color night vision with built-in spotlights for enhanced nighttime detail
- AI detection for people, vehicles, and pets
- Customizable activity zones to reduce unwanted alerts
- Automatic 360° motion tracking follows moving subjects
- IP66 weatherproof design resists rain, dust, and heat for year-round use
- Built-in sound and light alarms to deter intruders
- Free local storage via microSD card (up to 512GB) with optional Tapo Care cloud storage
- Designed with advanced cybersecurity protections and CISA Secure-by-Design commitment
- Flexible installation options for wall, ceiling, or pole mounting
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- This offer matches this previous frontpage deal from June which garnered 52 thumbs up.
- Our research indicates that this deal is $14 less (20% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $69.99 at the time of this post.
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Amazon has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
TP-Link Tapo Store has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
B&H Photo Video also has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter jk6812 for sharing this deal.
Product Details:
TP-Link Tapo Store has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
B&H Photo Video also has Tapo 3K 5MP Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Wi-Fi Camera w/ 360° View, Starlight Color Night Vision & Motion Tracking (C530WS) on sale for $55.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter jk6812 for sharing this deal.
Product Details:
- 3K 5MP resolution with digital zoom for detailed live viewing
- Connects via 2.4GHz Wi-Fi
- 360° horizontal and 135° vertical pan/tilt coverage
- Starlight color night vision with built-in spotlights for enhanced nighttime detail
- AI detection for people, vehicles, and pets
- Customizable activity zones to reduce unwanted alerts
- Automatic 360° motion tracking follows moving subjects
- IP66 weatherproof design resists rain, dust, and heat for year-round use
- Built-in sound and light alarms to deter intruders
- Free local storage via microSD card (up to 512GB) with optional Tapo Care cloud storage
- Designed with advanced cybersecurity protections and CISA Secure-by-Design commitment
- Flexible installation options for wall, ceiling, or pole mounting
Editor's Notes
Written by Nate650 | Staff- About this deal:
- This offer matches this previous frontpage deal from June which garnered 52 thumbs up.
- Our research indicates that this deal is $14 less (20% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $69.99 at the time of this post.
- About this product:
- About this store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
- Additional notes:
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the wiki and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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Hardware:
An old PC or a new one with enough horsepower to handle the streams, encoding, and storage. I am currently running eight cams. Seven Tapos and one ReoLink doorbell cam. All put out RTSP streams. My hardware is
GMKtec Mini PC, G3 PRO Intel Core i3. I got it on sale for $195 earlier in March. It has gone up, like everything, since all the hyperscalers are putting so much demand on storage.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHDTH...in_ti
I just spotted this on sale. More powerful and cheaper. Obviously I have not tested it but I don't see why it wouldn't work just fine: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPY5Z...mhFal
I upgraded it with a 4TB SSD so I could retain about one month off all streams. Currently I am consuming only 843GB. I also upgraded the RAM to 32GB.
All the detections are hard on the CPU, so you will also want to get a TPU dongle. Especially when you get into detections like facial recognition, license plate recognition, whether that delivery truck that pulled up is Amazon, UPS, or FedEx, Yes, frigate can do all that and more. If you integrate it with Home Assistant (also free) you can set up some awesome automations, but that's a whole other discussion.
Here's the Coral TPU: https://www.mouser.com/en/Product...cyCod
Unless you are going to have a monitor attached to the server all the time you will need a little HDMI stub connector to trick the HDMI's EDID protocol into thinking there's actually a monitor attached. I view my cams on frigate via a web browser and the server itself lives in my "nerve center" closet under the stairs. So, I got one of these to fool the server into thinking the monitor is there. Without it, one of the drivers complains on boot:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P6DK...in_ti
That should do it for the server side. For the networking side you will need to router capable of creating and managing VLANs and that will allow you to manage your firewall rules manually. If you have one, you are all set. If not, you could go a little crazy and get the Ubiquity Dream Machine SE, that I have:
https://www.bhphotovide
If you are going the Dream Machine SE route you will also need to get a wireless access point for the wireless cameras to talk to:
https://www.bhphotovide
or, get a scaled down version, like the one I put into my ex-wife's house. This is the Ubiquity Dream Router 7 (It has the access point built in so you don't need to get a separate one):
https://www.bhphotovide
I like using B&H whenever I can. They are good about price matching via the chat window and if you get/use their credit card they'll pay the sales tax. Where I live that means a 10.25% savings.
Other than a couple of ethernet cables that's it for the hardware.
Next comes the software. All free:
First, install Ubuntu Linux on the PC. You can get that here (You want the server version, not the desktop version):
https://ubuntu.com/download
frigate runs in a container. You can use command line commands to get docker pulled down or you can get it here:
https://docs.docker.com/desktop/s...all/linux/
Then finally, frigate itself. It's been a while but I believe I had docker pull down and install the frigate software. You can check it out, here:
https://frigate.video/
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You will have to go into Tapo app and enable local accounts on each of your cameras. That's what tells it to make the rtsp stream available. Before you dive too deep, give the Tapo camera's rtsp stream a test drive. Install VLC (a video viewer--also free) on your windows/mac machine and hit CTRL N. That will enable you to type in the URL for the stream. It will look something like this:
rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream1 <-same username and password you created the local camera account with.
Once you prove you can see the rtsp stream you are ready to get it up and running on frigate. The frigate configurations happen in a yml file (rhymes with "camel.")
I'll paste my full config.yml here so you can have it as a reference. You will noticed the rstp syntax is slightly different for the Front Door cam since it is a ReoLink.
The mqtt section at the top is what let's it talk to Home Assistant. You can set enabled to false if you aren't going to take it talk to Home Assistent.
version: 0.17-0
mqtt:
enabled: true
host: 10.1.1.15
port: 1883
topic_prefix: frigate
client_id: frigate
user: username
password: password
stats_interval: 15
detectors:
coral:
type: edgetpu
device: usb
detect:
enabled: true
width: 640
height: 360
fps: 3
go2rtc:
streams:
BlackRoom:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream1
BlackRoom_sub:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream2
FrontDoor:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]:554/h264Preview_01_main
FrontDoor_sub:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]:554/h264Preview_01_sub
BackYardWest:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream1
BackYardWest_sub:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream2
BackYardEast:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream1
BackYardEast_sub:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream2
Puppy1:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream1
Puppy1_sub:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream2
Puppy2:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream1
Puppy2_sub:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream2
BlueRoomCockers:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream1
BlueRoomCockers_sub:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream2
KitchenBlackDog:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream1
KitchenBlackDog_sub:
- rtsp://username:[email protected]/stream2
record:
enabled: true
alerts:
pre_capture: 5
post_capture: 120
retain:
days: 7
mode: motion
detections:
pre_capture: 5
post_capture: 120
retain:
days: 7
mode: motion
continuous:
days: 7
motion:
days: 7
review:
alerts:
labels:
- person
- dog
- cat
- car
detections:
labels:
- person
- dog
- cat
- car
cameras:
BlackRoom:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/BlackRoom_sub
roles: [detect]
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/BlackRoom
roles: [record]
detect:
width: 640
height: 360
fps: 5
record:
continuous:
days: 30
motion:
days: 0
objects:
track:
- person
- car
- bicycle
- dog
- cat
FrontDoor:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/FrontDoor_sub
roles: [detect]
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/FrontDoor
roles: [record]
detect:
width: 640
height: 480
fps: 5
record:
alerts:
pre_capture: 5
post_capture: 120
retain:
days: 30
mode: motion
detections:
pre_capture: 5
post_capture: 120
retain:
days: 30
mode: motion
objects:
track:
- person
- package
- dog
- cat
- car
- bicycle
BackYardWest:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/BackYardWest_sub
roles: [detect]
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/BackYardWest
roles: [record]
detect:
width: 640
height: 360
fps: 3
objects:
track:
- person
- dog
- cat
BackYardEast:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/BackYardEast_sub
roles: [detect]
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/BackYardEast
roles: [record]
detect:
width: 640
height: 360
fps: 3
objects:
track:
- person
- dog
- cat
Puppy1:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Puppy1_sub
roles: [detect]
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Puppy1
roles: [record]
detect:
width: 640
height: 360
fps: 5
objects:
track:
- person
- dog
- cat
Puppy2:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Puppy2_sub
roles: [detect]
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/Puppy2
roles: [record]
detect:
width: 640
height: 360
fps: 5
objects:
track:
- person
- dog
- cat
BlueRoomCockers:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/BlueRoomCockers_sub
roles: [detect]
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/BlueRoomCockers
roles: [record]
detect:
width: 640
height: 360
fps: 5
objects:
track:
- person
- dog
- cat
KitchenBlackDog:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/KitchenBlackDog_sub
roles: [detect]
- path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/KitchenBlackDog
roles: [record]
detect:
width: 640
height: 360
fps: 5
objects:
track:
- person
- dog
- cat
camera_groups:
Outdoors:
order: 1
icon: LuTrees
cameras:
- BlackRoom
- FrontDoor
- BackYardWest
- BackYardEast
Indoors:
order: 2
icon: LuHouse
cameras:
- Puppy1
- Puppy2
- BlueRoomCockers
- KitchenBlackDog
DogCams:
order: 3
icon: LuDog
cameras:
- Puppy1
- Puppy2
- KitchenBlackDog
- BlueRoomCockers
Then, on your router, make sure you set up a firewall rule that blocks that entire VLAN from accessing Internet so it can never phone home.
Network Chuck has a really good video on getting this all going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t..._G4
Another good resource for generating and tweaking the YML config file is Chatgpt. You can do it manually too.
Feel free to PM me if you have questions.
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