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Tapo HybridCam Duo 2K 3MP Indoor/Outdoor Dual Lens Pan/Tilt Security Camera (C246D) for
$54.99.
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Best Buy has
Tapo HybridCam Duo 2K 3MP Indoor/Outdoor Dual Lens Pan/Tilt Security Camera (C246D) for
$54.99.
Shipping is free.
B&H Photo Video has
Tapo HybridCam Duo 2K 3MP Indoor/Outdoor Dual Lens Pan/Tilt Security Camera (C246D) for
$54.99.
Shipping is free.
Features:
- Includes a fixed 2K lens with a 125° FOV, and a separate 2K pan/tilt lens with 6mm telephoto for sharp, zoomed-in details. Independent lens positioning allows precise monitoring. 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi required.
- A fixed wide-angle lens keeps one area in view, while the pan/tilt lens offers a 360° horizontal and 152° vertical view of another. The camera's field of view is greater than the mechanical pan/tilt range.
- IP65-rated design that withstands heavy and rain and dust. Place it on a table or mount it to a wall - installation is easy anywhere.
- Receive accurate alerts for people, pets, vehicles, and baby cries using built-in AI detection. Choose which types of detection trigger notifications for more relevant alerts.
- When enabled on the Tapo App, the pan/tilt lens automatically tracks motion detected by the fixed camera, delivering comprehensive surveillance so you never miss a moment.
- Tap anywhere on the live wide-angle view and the pan/tilt camera will instantly zoom and center the camera on that point.
- Choose between black-and-white IR, full-color with built-in spotlights, or smart auto mode that switches to color when motion is detected.
- Store recordings on a microSD card at no cost (up to 512GB, sold separately) or subscribe to Tapo Care's cloud storage.
- Easily set privacy zones to block recordings in personal areas and define detection zones to receive alerts only from key areas.
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If someone asked for my advice, and they were actually serious about doing it right, I would tell them:
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Mostly pretty good, tplink integration and then the tapo control for more control. There's a lot of auth issues I encountered every few days, but overall, does exactly what I need. I run these with HA to do automation for indoor privacy and use frigate to consume rtsp.
If you plan on running the streams directly to HA, that can be done too, but I'm much less familiar with that process.
A few things to note.
If you absolutely must with wifi, use ones with wpa3. That mitigates risk of deauth attacks, but physically jamming still works.
Make sure your Wi-Fi has enough bandwidth. Wifi 5ghz vs 2.4 has different tradeoffs and that will affect performance.
Compare ones with CBR vs VBR Options. That affects if you will likely experience more reduced quality stream during congestion on wifi. CBR will be way more taxing but your quality doesn't go between potato and hd.
Camera isolation always, but if you can't, always deny your camera ability to access Internet through your router if you can unless you heavily rely on the vendor app, then limit the access.
Remote viewing, I usually keep miine local and VPN accessible, but if you must make it internet facing, go through proper certs configs and activate any feature supporting rate limits, bans, blacklists.
These are mostly for the advanced users or guppies ready to dip their toes.
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