I use my (2) tapo's for security while at home or away from home. I love that the features show day and night options,plus privacy mode. They are an awesome purchase for me because I check on my home while I am at work and make sure my home is ok and also can check on my cat,making sure she is behaving. Thank you to Amazon I love my tapo's cameras.Plus with added security I feel safe 🥰,plus it is very to set up.

This review is for TP-Link Tapo 2K Pan/Tilt Indoor Security Camera for Baby Monitor, Pet Camera | Motion Detection & Tracking | 2-Way Audio | Cloud & SD Card Storage | Works w/Alexa & Google Home | Black | Tapo C211. Great video quality in 2K or 1080P but loses some details farther away, which is expected. So while I can zoom in on something, it does lose sharpness if it’s far away. I use it to watch my senior dog when he’s home alone. Setting up the camera is pretty easy by just following the quick setup guide. However, if you have VPN installed on your phone, turn this off first before you proceed or you will have a hard time connecting to the camera and your wi-fi. You can turn the vpn back on afterward. So basically 1) Pause vpn, if applicable 2) connect the phone to the camera wi-fi ID and once that’s connected then 3) connect your phone to your own wi-fi 2.4Ghz network and then 4) resume vpn, if paused earlier. If you don’t turn off vpn you will waste a lot of time trying to figure out why the camera could not connect to your WiFi. Been there done it and this is my 7th Tapo camera setup so just saying… I like Tapo specifically because I don’t have to buy cloud storage. This means that if you don't buy the cloud service or do not have a microSD, the camera will not record any activity by itself. It will still notify you of the activities you’ve set up to be notified about but it will not be possible to see what had just transpired without a microSD. I personally use a high endurance one that is designed specifically for monitoring cameras and dashcams, not just a phone microSD, because it needs to be able to handle the amount of read-write-retrieve that these cameras require. This is the one I use for all my cameras, if interested: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NY23WBG Just don’t go beyond the 512Gb limit for this camera. The camera is very good in general but I noticed that it can also lose track of me in terms of motion tracking and pan/tilting especially when I’m wearing dark clothing. After a while it would go back to the original position, leaving me baffled at times. It has also gone offline regularly for no apparent reason so I had to disable motion sensing which took care of that problem but it defeats the purpose of that feature! I thought the unit would rotate in the middle, at the ball joint, but it actually rotates at the base. I can hear it move and I leave the status light on to alert me that it’s on when I’m home so that I can remember to go into privacy mode and turn off the camera. This is usually when I wish that there is a Watch app that I can just click to turn on/off the camera without opening up the whole app to do this. There is a Home/Away mode for this though which can be set up automatically. Everything you need is in the app and I think it’s a great app. They’ve updated it a few times since I’ve been using it and it gets better every time. There’s always something new to play around with and explore. I love being able to download the video to my phone to share with friends and family. The only thing I do find annoying is that it will prompt me regularly every 5 minutes to continue monitoring and I have to respond or the screen is frozen. This defeats the purpose of it being a full fledged monitoring camera so it’s not great for baby monitoring. Something to keep in mind. Overall, this is a pretty good camera and is feature packed like all my other Tapo cameras but it had some quirks for me like losing track of where I walked and also going offline until I stopped motion sensing completely. It has great night vision and very crisp daylight videos though. It’s just a matter of fine tuning the settings to get things to behave the way you want that can take some time to get right. I don’t like subscribing to anything so the best part is that no subscription is required! I would give it a 4.0/5.0 - 03/11/2024. Side note: You only need to do the setup on one phone and will be able to view the camera on all your other devices whether iPad or whatever other tablets once you log on to the Tapo app. However, you will -not- be able to view the cameras on your laptop or the web by inputting the ip address in the browser (I’ve tried). Well, I’ve never found a way to do this and I’m not that tech savvy to figure it out but it may be possible using some other authentication method. Also, you can set the camera to do continuous recording vs only detection recording (Default) by going to Setting - Storage & Recording - Recording Schedule and editing the time blocks from Orange (Only when something is detected) to Blue (Always record) or even to White (Don’t record anything). Note that your phone can be connected to the 5GHz wifi all the time but the cameras will only use 2.4GHz by default. Many cameras only support 2.4GHz. As far as I can tell, it will not support or connect to any unsecure wifi network. It seems to only support WPA or WPA2 encryptions. WEP, Portal, WPA/WPA2-enterprise, or WPA3-only networks are not supported. If your internet drops, you can still use the cameras or watch live views without an internet connection if you are connected to the same wireless network. However, you won’t get any notifications since this requires internet access. I have the Tp-Link Wifi extender (RE220) and I use the Tapo Tethers app to connect half of my cameras to the hidden SSID (_ext) I set up in the app. I would recommend it if you want to have a greater wifi range. 06/04/2024: Note: If you set up this camera to turn on and off with another camera (like with Leave Home or Arrive Home automation), and you turn on the other camera, this camera will also turn on by itself as soon as you appear in front of it (despite being in Privacy Mode i.e. camera is OFF). I believe this is a serious bug and so don’t be surprised to find the camera has turned on all by itself even if you have privacy set to ON, if you have this type of setup. Otherwise, it will stay shut down in privacy mode. If you don’t want this to happen then do not add this camera to your automation routine. However, this doesn’t just happen with this camera. It happens with all my other Tapo cameras as well that are linked with a motion sensing camera such as this one. For example, if you set Arrive Home to turn OFF both this camera and a non-motion sensing one, and you manually turned on this motion sensing camera, it will also force the other non-motion sensing one to come on as well so be careful with this type of setup lest you find it recording you doing something you may not want to be seen on camera. LOL Hopefully, Tapo will address this issue in one of their future software releases but be warned!!!

This was our second order and has been a perfect solution for monitoring our baby. It has a great baby cry and movement detection which you can control (sensitivity). It’s very light on pocket for the features it offers. It isn’t bulky or ugly to install anywhere in your house and is very easy to manage and control.

Super easy setup and they work really great. Incredible product for the price point! The app is easy to use and I love that you can view all cameras at once

Easy to setup, step by step instructions and great resolution. The mobile app has great functionality for Pan, Tilt, Zoom and has advanced functions for "privacy mode" and preset positions. Further, the movement sensors react well to any movement (including small pets) and the built-in SD card allows you record in a loop so you won't miss a moment of what happened. I highly recommend!

What a blast! We got the camera to see how the new Shetland Sheepdog puppy was reacting to being left alone in his bed. Turns out to be kind of an emotional experience because he barked and paced the cage for a pretty long time. But this camera is awesome! It connects with the WiFi in the house and allows two way audio over the net. It has pan and tilt plus the usual digital zoom. But, it follows an image in the room. Kinda creepy for us for the first time but it is very beneficial to see the motion of someone in the room that’s not supposed to be there. It has a privacy mode (all controlled by an app on the phone) that needs to be turned off when you don’t want to be recorded in your birthday suit (come on now, you have an over active imagination).

I purchased one camera for the front door as there were some security concerns on our building and we left the apartment unsupervised for long periods of time. It was definitely one of the best purchases I have made. Pricing is very fair, the 2K resolution works great and allows to view detail while zooming. The app is free and can hold multiple cameras for free, I believe 4 is the limit but need to make sure. Through the app you can setup motion-detection based recording or chose to record all the time. There you can also speak through the camera, move it around and create default positions/viewing angles to chose from. There are also premium features that require payment, like cloud-based storage and movement follow but the base app is really all you need and works great! You can look at the footage from anywhere. I have since purchased another to monitor the inside of the apartment and two for my mother's house. Keep in mind you do need to buy SD cards to record locally but those are pretty cheap, around $10 for 64gb here on amazon. I would definitely recommend these for properties left unsupervised that require supervision (AirBNBs, warehouses, shops, etc)

While I am aware that this may not be the top-tier camera available, it suits my needs perfectly. It includes audio capabilities and night vision, along with motion detection. The setup process is remarkably quick and straightforward. I was so impressed that I recommended it to a friend, who ended up purchasing two. The array of features is incredibly practical, allowing me to monitor and communicate with my dog while I'm at work. Overall, I am very satisfied with this purchase.

Crystal clear views and the setup was quite user friendly. No nagging for using their cloud storage subscription in the Tapo app. Both hardware and software seem to be solid.

These are great indoor cameras, don't get me wrong, and I almost gave them 5 stars but... yes there is a but... you cannot setup the alarm to trigger on only "Person" detection unless you disable "Motion" detection and if you disable Motion detection then the camera will not track anything and there is no point in have a 360-degree camera if it is not going to automatically track. So that is the only thing currently wrong with the camera which could be easily fixed with a firmware update. With Alarm set it on it would be going off every time a moth flies in front of it or a spider decides to start building its web in front of it... well you get the idea. They need to have it updated so you can set the alarm to go off if ONLY a Person is detected, or ONLY if motion is detected, or you could set it to BOTH should you desire. I live in a part of the world where the doors and window are left open from morning and closed at night so yeah.. there are going to be flying insects and sometimes even birds coming into the house, and we also have a cat so I do not want the alarm going off at 3am if the camera detects motion of any kind but I DO want it to go off it detects a person at 3am that should not be up and about inside the house at that hour. Other than that one oversight the camera is very good and tracks movements well and video playback from the inserted 32GB card is sharp and detailed. When you pan/tilt the camera, the video does get a bit distorted, but I am sure that is causes by motor electrical noise interference or not enough processing power of the video when the camera is motion. Perhaps they can tweak that a bit to help the video be a bit clearing while pan and tilting the camera with a firmware update. I will of course be updating this review in the future after I see how it continually performs and if they fix the Alarm issue, I will adjust the stars accordingly. I hope this review helps someone on their buying decision. Have a GREAT day!