TP-Link Tapo 2K QHD Outdoor Wireless Security Camera System, Up to 180 Day Battery, Color Night Vision, Starlight Sensor, Motion/Person/Pet/Vehicle Detection, works w/Alexa &Google Home(Tapo C420S2)
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A global phenomenon, the Tapo brand has quickly gained popularity with its customers for its intuitive features and TP-Link’s heritage of quality products at a value. With one goal, to provide smart solutions for traditional CE products, Tapo continues to innovate adding the “Smart” in smart home. With cameras, lighting, to sensors, the Tapo brand continues to build on its breadth of products for a complete smart home ecosystem.
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Specification: TP-Link Tapo 2K QHD Outdoor Wireless Security Camera System, Up to 180 Day Battery, Color Night Vision, Starlight Sensor, Motion/Person/Pet/Vehicle Detection, works w/Alexa &Google Home(Tapo C420S2)
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10 reviews for TP-Link Tapo 2K QHD Outdoor Wireless Security Camera System, Up to 180 Day Battery, Color Night Vision, Starlight Sensor, Motion/Person/Pet/Vehicle Detection, works w/Alexa &Google Home(Tapo C420S2)
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Connor CConnor C –
The C420 system is incredibly easy to use. Once the H200 hub was connected to the router the setup was very straightforward and connecting to my account and the tapo app took only a couple of minutes. I’ve been told by support that they are adding wifi support to the hub, but for now it requires ethernet. This was not personally a big issue as my router is central in my home and had extra ethernet ports, but if someone does not have an extra port this could be a hurdle requiring extra hardware. The cameras themselves were equally easy to set up. I did initially put the batteries in backwards and spent a minute or so wondering why the light was not flashing like the app said it should be, but that was user error. The batteries charged relatively quickly, about an hour each, and seem to be holding a good charge. In the 2 weeks since I’ve turned the cameras on they’ve only dropped about 1%, though I am not actively using all of the detection features.Access through the app is easy and connecting to the cameras seems to be just as fast on any fast wifi network as on the same network as the cameras. The signal latency is also quite good. I found the picture is only about a second delayed from real time. The detection settings work well and the detection zone drawing tool and privacy zone tools provide a good level of control. The AI detection did notify me when it saw a car in my driveway. Picture quality is very good in the daytime. The image is very clear and detailed.Picture quality at night was very impressive. With some light in the scene, I did not need to have night mode enabled to see clearly. Multiple times when checking the camera at night I thought the picture was frozen because of how bright it was. It was not frozen.The range of the wireless cameras is strong. With the hub in a central location in my home, both cameras could be placed anywhere without signal loss. For an average sized home, I don’t think there would be any issue regarding placement.The media from the camera saves to either the internal storage or Tapo Cloud. There is no FTP or ONVIF support.Overall, for where this camera is priced, I think it is a good value and would recommend it to someone looking to add some easy and basic cameras to their home.
Julie Wilder –
Installing these was a breeze. Getting them hooked up into the hub took a minute but was overall pretty easy. The picture quality is fantastic! My only complaint would be that it sometimes doesn’t differentiate well between what is a pet and a person. I have one in my backyard and one in my front. The front is for the usual suspects: keeping an eye on my car; seeing who comes to my door etc. It does great for this. I’ve tried to keep it angled away from the road so it doesn’t get tripped by passing cars so much. It still does. What can you do?The backyard was mostly to keep an eye on stray animals in my back yard. It doesn’t always pick up the motion (most are cats and their motions can be very slight at times. It often only picks them up when they jump) but it never misses ME going out the back door.I would recommend if you want something to keep an eye on your place. Worth the money.
SWilcox –
I wanted a system that did not require a subscription. I’m thrilled with the flexible programming per camera on what it records, sends notifications, monitoring area, with home, privacy and away settings. Video is hub-based and easy to retrieve. Also able to watch live, listen and talk though listen and talk is not great. Battery life is not 6 months with lots of activity, but it’s not a burden to recharge. I have already recommended this product to a few people.
JCJC –
As the title says it’s very easy to set these cameras up. Connect the hub to your router, sync the cameras, mount, and done. It’s that simple. Being a TP-Link product, I am not surprised as to how well built they are. Solid construction, sturdy mounts, and completely weather resistant. If that wasn’t enough the picture quality is amazing.Let’s go a little deeper now, the setup is similar to quality a few others on the market, The hub supplies to internet connection to the cameras. This make setting the cameras up very simple, because all you have to do is sync them with the Hub. The hub has about 30ft range for the most reliable connection to the cameras. In my use, one of my cameras are around 40ft with multiple walls in between, and for the most part I don’t have any issues with it. Out of the box, it’s highly recommended you charge the cameras. I didn’t initially do it, since they were around 50%. Within a few days they were dead and I had to charge them anyway. I didn’t have high hopes at that point. Since charging them, they have been running for about 20 days on battery and currently sitting at 96%, so yea, charge them out of the box.The Spot lights on the cameras are okay but I found the night vision view to be much better without the need of the spot lights. The hub is also where the SD card would be install, as the cameras detect motion events they, will record to the SD card for local storage, no need to worry about your data being peeked at. There is an option for cloud storage, but I didn’t have a need to use it. The Tapo app itself is well designed and easy to use.If I had to give any negative marks, the big one would be that the hub HAS to be connected with an ethernet cable. So if your modem and router are in one corner of the house, you may not be able to place the cameras exactly where you want. If the Hub also had a WiFi Option it could be placed more centrally and because it’s small, it wouldn’t be in the way. Centrally locating the hub would give you more flexibility in where you can place the cameras. The Hub also has a nifty doorbell chime you can activate in app. This really doesn’t help much since there’s no button included to be able to trigger it. Even if it was just a basic battery powered button similar to what wireless doorbells use. You can use it in an event that you want a doorbell, but can’t have a camera at the door, in let say an Apt building, or office building. The batteries as great as they are, limit you to how high you can mount the cameras. Eventually you’ll need to remove the battery, or take the camera down to charge it. If there was a wired power option, it would broaden where they can be placed, and would even allow them to be a set and forget it setup.Even with those cons, I would still highly recommend these cameras to anyone that wants a simple security camera setup and don’t mind the once in a while charging. The cameras show the battery % right in the window of the app, so if you monitor them frequently you’ll never worry about them being dead.
T&M –
Look, wired cameras will always be better but in certain situations these are awesome? One hub for multiple cameras, up to 256 gb SD card, no cloud storage neeeded. The Tapo app is excellent, plus they offer lighting, switches, motion sensors that have Google and Alexa integration… Yet to fail me.
Shane L –
I’m replacing my old Blink Mini with these. When I bought the Blink, I thought the lag would be OK, since I’m not using it as a security camera – I’m using it to watch side yard where packages sometimes got dropped off instead of my front door. But Blink Mini’s lag was so unbearable, I ended up barely using it.There’s still a small lag in these camera, but it’s much much shorter than Blink Mini, unless the camera is wired, probably not going to be able to get rid of the lag. So far so good. I approve!!!
HowardHoward –
I’m a big fan of Tapo, already having 3 indoor and 3 outdoor cameras. The outdoor cameras are wired. For wireless, I had been using another brand, but lately I’ve been experiencing quality issues with them. This Tapo set was on sale, so I had additional incentive to try. It arrived today, and I was excited to unbox and get one camera installed.One thing that has prevented me from purchasing this Tapo camera sooner, as well as others that are similar, is that they utilize a hub for centralized storage and communication. In my mind, it adds complexity and a single point of failure.In any case, the Tapo package arrived. Setting up the hub was straightforward, once I connected it directly to my router and not the switch. Once the hub was set up, the camera was also a quick set up.First thing I noticed – the removable battery pack. Excellent! If the batteries ever die, I can get a replacement.I plugged the camera in to the charger, and let the batteries charge to 100%. I inserted the 256GB micro-SD card in to the hub and formatted. I then moved the camera outside to where I previously had another camera, and plugged the solar panel in. The battery status showed charge was coming in from the panel – wonderful!Now, because of the hub, you need to put it in a good location to have the best communication with the camera(s). At first, I had the hub sitting by my router. It’s in my computer room, on the side of the house facing the camera. However, I was getting a bad signal. Since the hub was near the inner wall of the room, I moved it and put it right on the window sill. I’ll deal with getting the network cable to the hub off the floor later. With the hub in the window, now I was getting a Great signal strength to the camera. The camera is about 8 feet up and somewhere between 100 and 150 feet from the hub. It is direct line of sight now. In my picture, the hub is in the window to the right of the front doors.Lastly, take note – these cameras come with 1 year warranty from TP-Link. Others, like C320WS come with 2 year.
Kiyopon –
It was easy to install. The image is clear although there are several walls including an exterior wall between the hub and cameras.
brandon –
excelente
Kathy and Dave –
This is the first time I’ve felt any need whatsoever to have cameras around our house, and I wasn’t interested in something for which I had to pay a “subscription fee.” These cameras fit the bill perfectly, recording to a device inside the house with a memory card. Where I live, no response by a security company could ever be fast enough to do anything except to arrive “after the fact,” so recording what happens around our house is the right answer for us. The motion detection doesn’t seem to work at 20 feet, so keep that in mind when you are thinking about where to place your cameras. However, the motion detection is extremely reliable at a distance of 5-10 feet, and the video quality is very good during daytime and nighttime. Overall, I am extremely satisfied with this purchase!