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"complete waste of money"

"very disappointed"

"worked for day then stopped with error message saying camera offline even though ok when camera and phone back on same network"

"absolutely crap the battery is awful literally doesn’t last half hour utterly useless!"

"does not work and will be returning for a refund"

"don’t waste your money!"

"waste of money"

"it doesn't even record anything the picture quality is awful!"

"well designed night visian gives usnice results didn't even know you can have so goog video in cheap camera"

"tried everything to get it to work and it failed every time"

"furthermore i don't have to worry about the other issue"

"absolute waste of time i’m afraid"

"total waste of money"

"total junk"

"really disappointed"

"absolutely crap the battery is awful literally doesn’t last half hour utterly useless!"

"it can be used for a period of time in case of power failure"

"you really can’t have it far from your router literally struggled even from the next room"

"typical of products from china poor translation and incomplete instructions"

"offten is disconecting and don’t record picture quality is rubish and night vision is awful nightvision is recording with max 6 fps and normal record with max 20 fps waste of money"

"awful product"

"utter garbage nightmare to set the app is rubbish and crashes after 15 minutes use it just stopped working and won’t switch on"

"i had another ip cam that was garbage compared to that"

"what a waste of time money"

"this device is useless and unusable and nobody should consider wasting money on it"

"the setup instructions bore no relationship to available phone settings or responses to any attempts to make this thing work and it never did"

"if you are in the same room as the camera and the router is links ok but move away and it’s very slow as lags"

"this was over a two day period of ensuring that we had not become mentally challenged by being locked down!"

"i returned this item it was very difficult getting it to connect but when it did the picture and sensitivity were not bad for the price however it would not stay connected and staying up all night reconnecting every three to four minutes was not the point of buying a camera"

"after several wasted hours of repeatedly charging and reconnecting we summed this up as a 'death wish inducing' experience and gave up on it!"

"first thing i noticed was very small dots like burned pixels"

"this device is useless and unusable and nobody should consider wasting money on it"

"returning item as not compatible with samsung s9"

"false advertising is against the law"

"the battery life and the major issue i’ve had with it is it stops recording and turns off after a short time"

"utter garbage nightmare to set the app is rubbish and crashes after 15 minutes use it just stopped working and won’t switch on"

"overall disappointing"

"doesn’t work"

"my husband put this on his desk and then called up the hustle and bustle of the office to get the job done!"

"the app this camera recommendeds you download is very buggy and looks like its been hacked together very quickly"

"if you want something reliable then completely avoid this"

"i use it to detect movement to avoid intrusions or to control when children return to school"

"utter chinese junk do not buy night vision terrible battery life terrible "

"poorly translated instructions"

"night vision doesn't work properly and the instructions to set up are poorly written to the point of being useless"

"great spy camera but the battery doesnt last long the info says 5 hours charge but i have tested it and they only last 1 hour to 1 hour 10 mins even when the recording is on full the camera it self mmm will when its full light inside or outside clear picture but when its night time and the lights are"

"spent ages to make it work on my iphone looking for tutorials on youtube"

"works for a day then suddenly blurred image"

"another 'no make' chinese import and 'looks good' but is actually pretty useless in real life!"

"the only problem is you have to keep it close to wifi for it to work i used my phone's internet which worked the best"

"typical of products from china poor translation and incomplete instructions"

"the quality of video is really bad the night vision is very limited"

"mixed results when trying to record to sd card"

"it does not fall and adapts well"

"wish i had scrolled further down and read the negative reviews"

"customer service no help at all so returned unit as it just wouldn’t work"

"didn't expect this mini security camera to work this well i have been thinking about getting a camera for quite some time i live in an apartment complex and when i get amazon packages sometimes it gets stolen"

"daylight image quality good night vision very poor and noisy and absolutely no audio whatsoever"

"i am usually able to work our technology but really struggling"

"it is so small that nobody notices it"

"you cannot remove this either!"

"therefore totally unreliable if going away from hone for example"

"batteries last about 2 minutes and connectivity is poor when it does connect"

"very tacky n plastic totaly not worth wot i paid"

"it has 1 star on the apple app store and all the app reviews note the same problem i have had"

"it is much smaller than i thought it would be"

"next time no connection so i gave up and returned item after wasting ages trying to get it to work"

"as it scattered around the room damaging the window my partner thought it was a safe collet the cam pieces so it doesn’t hurt our pets and throw them away"

"the night vision is also good but the auto function flicks to black & picture so i leave it on the forced setting"

"i’m buying a 5ghz mains powered one and hopefully will have better luck with that one!"

"the battery issue"

"after the defocusing issue tested for 5 further days"

"it gets quite warm when operating and the motion detection is overly sensitive"

"two problems i do i have are that it doesn't offer the option to stream to a cloud or drive if it does and i'm just an idiot apologies and that it has to remain plugged in because it only runs for an hour"

"if you're using these cameras via lan for home security or child monitoring you have been warned!"

"my reason for the poor review is that it's useless as a camera as the battery lasted approximately 1hr after several full charges"

"you wont have problem by zooming it out and seeing people"

"it has a small shelf"

"the camera is fairly light and can easily be hidden away from unwanted visitors"

"no instructions of how to set it up for viewing once you leave range & no clue as to the password 1 st time set up it wouldn’t let me on as it said wrong password yet i hadn’t changed it i shall be returning it"

"avoid at all costs"

"after alot of research it has come to light that the only 2 apps you can download to view the camera have a glitch which means as soon as you're out of range of your own wifi it won't connect anymore"

"however due to its limited wifi capability"

"sending it back!"

"even though i almost always have my phone close by i work on my laptop late into the night so it's nice to be able to check in on her without draining my battery on my phone"

"it’s useless!"

"totally useless"

"the application is simple and the image can be magnified like any photo or video which may be useful"

"the first really unnerving experience is that the supplier has not even paid a native speaker to ensure the user manual is written in intelligible english much of what is written is chinglish nonsense"

"two problems with this"

"this product dose not connect or work please don't waste your time on this product"

"update 01 03 2020 after using this product for a a few weeks and constant charging because one issue i did not notice is that the battery power only last up to 2 hours max the cam burned my socket and cracked into pieces"

"even though i almost always have my phone close by i work on my laptop late into the night so it's nice to be able to check in on her without draining my battery on my phone"

"waste of time ordering"

"you can put it on any table or shelf and you will hardly see it"

"save your hard earned money and buy something that does what it is supposed to do"

"now the outside is really too messy so i bought this mini version of the camera so that i can be outside or upstairs at any time to see the home picture connected to the phone is very good the picture is very clear worthy of recommendation of a product￥￥￥"

"waste of time and money"

"first let me state that our home has external cctv which works brilliantly so we are no novices to technology"

"the back garage side of the house faces the street and it is difficult to see who is coming and going"

"poor battery life very short wifi range"

"stay away from this rubbish and headache of a product!"

"can’t connect the camera to the app that it was originally paired with app has been discontinued "

"the problem i’m experiencing is it does not connect to the internet so you can’t watch it live from outside your wifi order 2 so far only one will connect despite it saying 4 cameras will work however i’ve been mislead"

"i have the product and after 4 days doesn’t charge anymore"

"wifi signal disappears and therefore connection disappears"

"this is not too bad but the battery is pointless which also makes the watch accessory pointless"

"very poor documentation"

"will b sending it bak asap"

"my reason for the poor review is that it's useless as a camera as the battery lasted approximately 1hr after several full charges"

"it’s really very bad product"

"battery will last about an hour then it overheats to the point you won’t be able to hold it with your bare hands"

"connection is terrible"

"major issues getting this to work"

"it's so low key it's almost invisible and i've found that it allows us to be warned if we're doing anything"

"i have tried repeatedly to connect but no success"

"unbelievably disappointed"

"so give him a miss"

"app has loaded but three people have tried to connect to the camera without success"

"thr product doesn’t work properly it takes ages to connect and the battery doesn’t last more then 40 minutes"

"battery power poor"

"very complicated"

"it cames already broken!"

"security cam don't make me laugh?"

"ive had it less than 24 hours and its bordering on useless and dangerous unfortunately"

"for me a slight downside is that i can't disable the microphone which is something i personally don't like"

"overheats even just on battery power and that does not last long at all even if not recording"

"hidden costs for icloud and you pay for the app on all my other cameras i don't have to but it look good nice and sturdy and i'm sure it worked well but i didn't try it "

"overheats even just on battery power and that does not last long at all even if not recording"

"i’ve queried amazon regarding this but have had no reply :"

"was sent a link via email to connect but guess what it doesn’t work and is in chinese"

"if you check recent reviews on the app or even questions on youtube video you will see this is a common problem"

"there is no sound and no light while is recording so nobody can see it which is good"

"just out of return time product no longer works"

"terrible app & camera"

"bought it for the house so maybe my mum can see the little one from her phone when we don’t have time to video call her as she lives far away "

"this camera did not connect to anything"

"what a load of crap!"

"there are no proper instructions or what there are are poor"

"this camera does not work its sound"

"initially it was ok but now i can’t view the live feed on my mobile and it just says ‘logging in’ or ‘request service’"

"update 01 03 2020 after using this product for a a few weeks and constant charging because one issue i did not notice is that the battery power only last up to 2 hours max the cam burned my socket and cracked into pieces"

"i trash it after few days "

"poor sound quality and motion detection doesn’t work for me"

"as a result the motion alarm doesn’t work either"

"not small as advertised works when it wants to"

"if you turn the app off or leave the house it will not reconnect"

"i’m so impressed as i didn’t even realise it comes with a “watch version” too "

"i hanged it where my roof end so no contact with rain"

"well designed night visian gives usnice results didn't even know you can have so goog video in cheap camera"

"my only guess is that it might have been the one faulty camera they sold "

"a piece of garbage not worth returning"

"i had my baby last year and he was really naughty causing me to worry about its safety every time i went out"

"no plastic on this thing"

"the minute you leave the home it will not connect"

"very disappointing"

"the worst camara i’ve brought so far 1needs to be plugged in to the mains most the time because battery life is so short 2 every time you view it it uses its own wi fi and when i need to use my home wi fi i have to reconnect it"

"connection between the camera and application very very weak "

"doesn’t stay connected long enough to record anything"

"results almost immediately late last night it clearly captured a large tom cat poking his nose through the door and slowly entering my poor cat had by this time come upstairs"

"my only guess is that it might have been the one faulty camera they sold "

"after several wasted hours of repeatedly charging and reconnecting we summed this up as a 'death wish inducing' experience and gave up on it!"

"i have been looking for so long for a camera that actually works great and does what it’s supposed to"

"basically waste of my money because it doesn’t work"

"ac adapter not supplied and charge doesn't last very long"

"it's not that small as it looks on the picture"

"can't connect to internet"

"i spent several hours trying and retrying and leaving it for a good hour thinking it might just be slow first time"

"i purchased this camera so i could watch my home when i am away i wanted one of these as they are small and easy to hide incase of a break in"

"very difficult to set up"

"i returned this item it was very difficult getting it to connect but when it did the picture and sensitivity were not bad for the price however it would not stay connected and staying up all night reconnecting every three to four minutes was not the point of buying a camera"

"in the application you can enable disable the video recording function if there is no card then the video will be recorded on the phone"

"i don't have time for any more of this misery and will instead invest my effort in returning the product to amazon"

"without connection away from home it is pointless"

"it does lag a little but it won't last too long"

"it has now made the short journey to the rubbish bin because that's what it is rubbish"

"time stamp wrong and only able to view recordings on card by removing and playing back on a pc"

"also i felt the watch strap wasn't secure enough and in fact weak at the stop fitting would disconnect when tightening onto wrist if not careful"

"free and simple smartphone applications it's a little weak but that's not the point"

"the camera often fails to work with the software that is limited in features"

"the ios software has been removed from apple app store and the company is not responding to emails"

"i used the software hwdv cam first of all this small camera has a pretty good picture quality in a lit area"

"instructions are about p2plivecam so instructions no good"

"its so tiny that if you wouldnt know there is camera you wouldnt see it"

"so i'm compelled to mention very good seller communication and after sales support and wanted to clarify my review is specifically about the offending camera"

"absolutely crap the battery is awful literally doesn’t last half hour utterly useless!"

"not very happy with my choice it keeps disconnecting from wifi battery last too short"

"if the power bank has no power the camera is off straight away"

"just out of return time product no longer works"

"camera keeps shutting down and going off line son doesn’t work"

"but camera would get full marks if you did not see the light's when it is on"

"utter chinese junk do not buy night vision terrible battery life terrible "

"does not work at all also no barcodes to scan"

"it's rubbish cam and product"

"to confirm: id label = cmc735 ********d01 f***31"

"instructions are rubbish!"

"two hours charging then it only lasts 30 minutes or more"

"we originally purchased only one nanny cam so that we could try it out without investing in several at a time"

"it doesn't stay connected to your phone signal drops record doesn't work unless you have it open while it records which is pointless and it's battery barely lasts an hour"

"this product i do not feel is fit for purpose the app dosnt sean to load properly and it is very slow to connect to the internet"

"dose not hold battery charge for even one minutes"

"it's very clear to shoot and change faces"

"so i bought this camera it is very small and can be connected with the phone the picture quality is very clear so that i can observe the baby's situation anytime anywhere it is really a great product"

"i did not expect this product"

"update: fair do's to the seller who quickly responded to my review and are investigating this issue"

"so the multiple view is a complete waste of time"

"very disappointed"

"it is ok but it won't except the memory card i have tried 2 different cards and i just get an error message saying there is a problem with the card the cards both work in my tablet"

"utterly useless"

"i had purchased this to monitor outside through a window however this does not work"

"don’t waste your money"

"waste of money !"

"i have been on their web site but it doesn't even show me which way round to put the sd card into the slot in the camera"

"if you intend to get a cheap camera that supports pan and tilt for your home to monitor things you will not go wrong with the tapo c200"

"when i reinstalled it as an “existing configuration” it failed every time at the end with a black pop up that reads “the network is unstable"

"the other issue was that the camera appeared not to be recording clips on detecting motion"

"poor nightvision the ir nightvision is not great!"

"completely waste of money"

"this is really annoying as without live streaming you cant keep recording nor is there snapshots or motion"

"have tried everything and every range of sim card yet there is a huge problem"

"crap camera and very noisy!"

"stay away dreadful product"

"here are my other cons glitchy app auto switches from hq to lq no way to stop it notifies with no apparent trigger detection is also over sensitive delays in notifications sometimes hours get 20 notifications from whole day in one go sound is terrible reboots required regular tech support is poor it admittedly is an amazing concept and if a little more effort was made could have been fantastic"

"the instructions are pretty poor i suggest you need to look at this problem personally i would not buy the two together camera is fine on it's own"

"tried hitting the "retry" button and it repeatedly failed far too quickly for it to have even attempted a substantive check"

"whilst the hardware produced by such firms may be ok i always have concerns about the robustness of their software and privacy issues"

"the other niggle was the sd card issue mentioned above"

"it’s almost misleading as during the night it only shows what is directly in front of the camera"

"if notifications are on be prepared to get bombarded but at a delayed rate"

"here are my other cons glitchy app auto switches from hq to lq no way to stop it notifies with no apparent trigger detection is also over sensitive delays in notifications sometimes hours get 20 notifications from whole day in one go sound is terrible reboots required regular tech support is poor it admittedly is an amazing concept and if a little more effort was made could have been fantastic"

"only issue i have is power cord should be white"

"1 extension if you need more length and these are no more expensive than usb cables"

"that way the device or memory cards being stolen will not mean the loss of footage"

"crap camera and very noisy!"

"i do not want to have to flag the exact location of the camera as i believe that represents a security issue if the server is compromised"

"i have turned these to the lowest settings which work well but get the odd false alarm"

"the play back is very laggy and not easy to view back recorded footage very time consuming"

"reboot time is fixed at 3am"

"iv had cheap cameras in the past which have concerned me for security reasons"

"the camera can be left on auto day night mode or forced permanently into day or night mode"

"then another issue was the camera telling me that the memory card had a problem which turned out to mean it needed formatting first but i found an option in the software that means the camera can do this for you"

"still not operational and now too late as location is shut down due to virus outbreak"

"not sure if this is a coding issue or me being dim"

"the only bit which is let down would be the microphone listening to what's going on through the phone app is almost unintelligible you have to be very close to the camera to understand what someone is saying"

"i dropped the camera from approx 5’ onto concrete snapped one of the bracket lugs but camera itself not damaged and working fine"

"there have been no real issues maintaining a connection and any connectivity problems are solved by exiting the program and opening again this only happens when i switch wifi signals on my phone now and then"

"dont use the auto restart it can randomly completely screw up the setup when it goes wrong and it will use the manual option in the app"

"awesome little camera you are pretty limited and stuck within the tapo app but i’m sure updates will come ie there is no patrol mode just virtual and horizontal scan"

"again it "could only be controlled locally" and the check screen failed instantly on every retry"

"this rubbish is going back cant beleive this cr** is tp link branded"

"to prevent it or help it if it got stolen again i bought this lil camera"

"the box says the unit is a c200 but the app says a kc110 kc115 it is utter junk and i would not engage with tapo or tp link again"

"further in addition to remote access using the tp link camera ios or android app you can also stream live views to any alexa device that has a screen and similar kit from google"

"many false alarms"

"now have no picture assistance useless"

"the picture is fine not any better than the cheap chinese no brand its replacing"

"the main problem is when you try to view more than 1 camera you select a 4 camera window or swipe left it only shows 1 at a time"

"wasted my money with this it works on 2"

"it has two rtsp feeds one 1080p hd and another lesser quality"

"this cause problems at night due to the reflection off the night vision lights"

"i bought this camera after spent hours viewing other people feedbacks"

"it looses connection and freezes even with the app !"

"poor sound"

"don’t know if that’s the app or 4g or wifi connection issues"

"may not be ideal as purely security camera unless well hidden"

"this is outrageous advice which would have all sorts of privacy implications which i am not prepared to contemplate"

"good points small cheap records to micro sd card app lets you watch remotely app does seem to work can review saved footage at up to 8x speed bad points motion detection is essentially useless it doesn't detect me walking down our drive but does detect random cars outside of the detection zone"

"another problem to add to the long list"

"this review is likely more about failings with the tapo app and or any underlying apis rather than the device itself which in itself "seemed" functional however since both need to operate seamlessly to effectively utilise the latter the problems described within render the camera virtually unusable"

"the power cable is nice and long i have the camera mounted upside down at the top of the window the image can be flipped and the cable runs across the top of the window and all the way to the floor"

"i'm using this with a 32gb sdhc card to record video so no ongoing cloud payments"

"i can see how this can be immensely valuable to people with animals that needs to be left on their own or with babies whose parents would like to interact with them without physically disturbing them!"

"i'm still learning with this little fella but whatni did find easier for me is to put it on the 'motion detection' setting for recording as opposed to continuous recording then i don't have to through hours of footage"

"some of the app features can not be used as the camera firmware is not supported which would seem a shame"

"forcing permanent day mode avoids this although it also keeps the camera in lower sensitivity colour recording mode so although better than night mode it still isn't ideal"

"no way to set duration for clips recorded after each trigger it carries on recording way too long"

"but having issues with the mic 🎤 and speaker 🔈 quality isn’t great"

"would have returned for refund but missed the return window"

"paid £25 and is good for that but made in china it’s ok for that price and all works great app is really easy to use shame it does not have a zoom just on the screen can go in more but then comes a mess mic speaker are poor a good starter camera"

"since it was purchased as a baby monitor to use via echo show the picture wasnt bright enough"

"good points small cheap records to micro sd card app lets you watch remotely app does seem to work can review saved footage at up to 8x speed bad points motion detection is essentially useless it doesn't detect me walking down our drive but does detect random cars outside of the detection zone"

"the troubleshooting is lacking instructions"

"after initiation the update the camera turned off and stopped working"

"4ghz wifi as camera and phone have to be on the same wifi for installation the camera is not 5ghz compatible"

"i can't do much with an item that's got the wrong plug"

"i have a 64gb memory card installed and the biggest benefit from recording video so far has been seeing how many cats use my garden as a thoroughfare"

"camera video stream can be viewed through a google nest hub limited view time only although any other configuration or playback of recordings must be done through the app"

"has anyone else has this problem?"

"motion detection at default level is erratic sometimes no detection even though you walk straight in front of the camera and other times detection with no obvious movement and often delayed"

"after that i’ve tried to reconnect the camera and got all kinds of errors possible it didn’t blink at all then it blinked but the app didn’t see the camera after few times resetting and powering off the app saw the camera but was unable to connect to wifi stating something is wrong with it i have other products by tapo and none of them ever complained about my wifi "

"update: it was just one of the cameras causing the issue"

"in the app it constantly shows the camera as offline or says no internet even though i could stream podcasts radio"

"motion detection at default level is erratic sometimes no detection even though you walk straight in front of the camera and other times detection with no obvious movement and often delayed"

"activity zone adjustment is a gimmick not functional if it sees it it will get recorded basically"

"privacy mode stops the camera recording video and sound"

"if however you have access points and or extenders then it might be a nightmare it will connect to your main router but not to extenders or access points in order to do that you have to disable ap on those devices and the enable it after you have set up the camera"

"i was off down the pub while he slaved away rigging this gadget up"

"having tried it i can see most facial characteristics well enough to be able to make people out in low light situations"

"doesn’t record on auto detect but does detect and sound sounder so fault in unit"

"during daylight this is a fabulous bit of kit but at night it is not much good"

"bad points when logging into the ios app after set up ios tries to use a new suggested password rather than the one already set up and saved in keychain"

"they tried it a couple of months later and it didn’t work and was unable to return as this was outside the return window"

"dose anyone how to keep it recording without the app being opened"

"cannot be beaten in price vs performance"

"zoom not too clever seems to distort the picture"

"i’m very disappointed in tapo!"

"after that i’ve tried to reconnect the camera and got all kinds of errors possible it didn’t blink at all then it blinked but the app didn’t see the camera after few times resetting and powering off the app saw the camera but was unable to connect to wifi stating something is wrong with it i have other products by tapo and none of them ever complained about my wifi "

"the skill app whilst easy to set up is full of bugs the latest one is that even if you turn off notifications it notifies you of every event"

"" this is incorrect privacy mode does not physically close the lens"

"like all similar products can't see through double glazing at night due to infared reflecting off the surface"

"unless our flat is somehow haunted without our knowing these alerts must be bogus"

"there is a strange lens flare possibly because the ir light is too close to the lens and light reflects directly back into the camera"

"i'm going to try one more configuration then if issues still exist i'll be returning both cameras as not fit for purpose"

"a well made camera with clear visuals however the screw down mounting plate is near impossible to disengage so make sure it is correctly aligned before fixing"

"this makes it evidentially useless as a security camera"

"the speaker is reasonably loud for when you want to two way call or alarm however the design choice to put it at the rear of the camera has obvious sound issues"

"the loop function allows it to record continuously so you don't need to worry about having to clear old files or change sd card when full"

"a well made camera with clear visuals however the screw down mounting plate is near impossible to disengage so make sure it is correctly aligned before fixing"

"for shooting through windows at night turn of the auto mode and set it day only this switches the night vision leds off but you will outdoor lighting to compensate"

"in summary i can recommend the tp cameras however please ensure you allow enough time beforehand for ample set up and troubleshooting to avoid future issues"

"much better than i was expecting it to be as i bought it as a visual deterrent due to its size but i’ve been pleasantly surprised by the quality of images captured"

"this is after the latest update that seems to have fixed a few other issues but without a permanent live view i can't give it more than one star as a baby monitor"

"" this is incorrect privacy mode does not physically close the lens"

"easy set up and i'm rubbish with instructions"

"item was faulty sound and mic didn't work"

"i wouldn’t recommend"

"after reducing the motion detection sensitivity to its lowest level and reducing the field of view used to detect motion the alerts are now less frequent but still occur for no apparent reason"

"getting into the "more" section works once every three tries and when there sometimes it fails to show you live feed so have to go out and back in again"

"forcing permanent day mode avoids this although it also keeps the camera in lower sensitivity colour recording mode so although better than night mode it still isn't ideal"

"once can even take a still photo if one wanted"

"i recently had the catalytic converters stolen off my prius and was very p*****off about it!"

"firstly can i say that i am surprised by some negative comments given the price of this camera and what it packs"

"only two minor issues 1"

"i do not want to have to flag the exact location of the camera as i believe that represents a security issue if the server is compromised"

"also when i try and retrieve the recording it shows a small picture icon of the recording but when i try and open it to watch it it opens a black screen with a play button which doesn't do anything"

"if i have one niggle is that if you're using this as a security camera the plug is so easy to undo maybe they should come up with some sort of screw connection with maybe an allen key to tighten so it cannot be easily pulled out apart from this the quality is good but it's a shame you cannot use it with with echo dots without having a fire tv it will be nice just to ask the dot to show the camera and to choose what device you wanted to show on i"

"i bought this camera to replace a baby kimcam and now that i've the tp link tapo i'm going to miss my old camera"

"secondly the live feed is not continuous on your phone evry few minutes it keeps asking permission if you want to continue absolutely horendous device no such issue with yi cameras"

"after that it seems to lose the connection or something went wrong again and i’ve got red light on the app says the camera is offline and the camera doesn’t reset or tries to do anything"

"most other cameras have standardized on micro usb for power but this has its own transformer and connector which i find an inconvenience"

"do not buy the sd suggested as they are defunct and not even the correct format for the camera"

"i note from other reviews that others had similar problems with the 128gb"

"5 allowing the app every permission still no luck"

"lead is not long enough for something like this you would want it up high or in a corner horrible black lead hanging down"

"it would be a 5 star from me if the recorded audio is better i find the audio very poor at a few feet away you cannot make out what i was saying"

"i appreciate that this is the budget end of tp link's range of cameras but even so i was not impressed with the picture quality when compared to similar priced cameras the camera was also jerky and noisy when rotating"

"streaming to google hub is almost impossible as it looses connection or freezes"

"in my kitchen i had a pest control plug attached which had a red light permanently on"

"the only way to record footage is to store it locally on an sd card which is not included"

"can't really recommend as a security camera as no cloud storage meaning a burglar could simply steal the camera and there would be no record"

"within a fornight had to send one back as it failed"

"but i'd rather have too sensitive than not enough"

"for most people i don't know if this would be a problem but it's worth bearing in mind that using something like zoneminder shinobi ispy etc"

"i ended up having to forcibly disconnect my phone from the wifi while the camera was trying to connect"

"no sd worked and you keep hearing the same sentence 'there is a problem with the sd card' and failed to format"

"however night vision is not great"

"i'm very impressed at the quality for such a low price"

"as expected the ir lights in night mode are no good as they bounce off the window blocking any image but day mode and some outdoor flood lights connected to a photocell fix my night viewing issue"

"however speaking through the app to the camera sounds a lot better"

"my only quibble is that it notifies you of every little movement"

"won't connect to alexa!"

"i wanted to stream it to a desktop pc & expected that to be a little difficult but if you download the free ispy software it's hardly a problem since the camera is compatible with rtsp & onvif"

"image quality is very good but sound is poor & garbled speech generally unintelligible"

"also able to access from 3rd party ip cam software but without camera positioning"

"the camera could not retain memory positions"

"i have put a memory card in it so there are no subscriptions either"

"from the app on your phone if you are away from home"

"however using the free software ispy i have imported the lower quality feeds for motion detection lower quality feeds have less weird video glitches if your camera has poor wifi connection and then i clone it so i have 2 smaller feeds one detecting the front yard another to detect the road"

"very cheap at £24"

"technically this is false"

"the audio recording sounds a bit poor"

"i would advise to ignore a 128gb and use a 32gb which gives a massive 4 5 24hour recording"

"this item may be sophisticated but when it fails the support instructions are misleading and the help desk are incompetent and do not know the product"

"lastly a few times the camera has been offline the app said it was powered of but i checked the plug and the wifi which had no issues and i had to restart the camera which in theory isn't great when if suddenly something happened or if i didn't check i wouldn't have known"

"the replacement is just a poor"

"at night turn off i fared less and use outdoor pir lights or as i do street lights!"

"the reason i give 1 star is because after 1 month of use the camera started rebooting by itself without any option activated to do so and its very annoying during the night when it does that allmoste eveey hour"

"the problem with this is if you wanted to quickly view all cameras you can't"

"the image looks cloudy and unfocused"

"it was hard choosing because some offer subscriptions or are quite expensive"

"full pan tilt zoom in 1080 hd for £25 tech is so good and cheap these days took me 2 mins to set it up and its great for wildlife watching as in here on the bird feeder or with night vision to see nocturnal ones later brill"

"no preview image of what triggered the cam could have been a cars headlight fox or an uninvited visitor fly tipping by your fence"

"also of forcing you to use an sd you can't even format the old sd you have forcing you to spend a large amount of money to try various brands of which at least with luck one will working"

"most cameras have a ring of at least 6 ir led's surrounding the lens this one only has a line of 4 relatively small leds which don't really give much illumination!"

"thankfully nothing ever did but i goes to show ensure you set up these cameras properly and maybe test them for a week in advance to iron out any kinks"

"i had bought this to use as a baby monitor but found in some houses we visited the wifi didn't stretch to the room and hence didn't work"

"so i bought 2 of these one for my dogs cage upstairs and the cage downstairs because my dog has had a major surgery where i need to see him tplo where he broke a ligament and these cameras have worked the charm they record when he is moving and when it hears sound and the night vision is brilliant i'm"

"if you plan on using it to monitor for an event like a take away delivery dont plan on doing it on an echo show or spot or firestick as it cuts off after about 5 mins its fine on the app though so again its down to low quality skill software"

"for the price it's not going to be beaten"

"the features of the camera are wonderful i wasn’t expecting much but now i have ended up buying a 2nd device"

"the only bit which is let down would be the microphone listening to what's going on through the phone app is almost unintelligible you have to be very close to the camera to understand what someone is saying"

"lastly a few times the camera has been offline the app said it was powered of but i checked the plug and the wifi which had no issues and i had to restart the camera which in theory isn't great when if suddenly something happened or if i didn't check i wouldn't have known"

"i have 2 and have both linked so i only need to swipe the picture on my phone to see the other camera"

"activity zones could be better but i will play with these a bit more before giving up completely"

"there is no option that your wifi is fine not the option that the camera is wrong"

"it is ok but it won't except the memory card i have tried 2 different cards and i just get an error message saying there is a problem with the card the cards both work in my tablet"

"when i reinstalled it as an “existing configuration” it failed every time at the end with a black pop up that reads “the network is unstable"

"however this also consistently failed after attempting to assign a location to the re added device as did every retry"

"also doesn’t connect to amazon echo dot 5 as stated"

"the app "feels" buggy unstable and immature certainly compared to it's kasa counterpart and in my humble opinion tp link would be better served by consolidating control of kasa and tapo products into their more mature kasa app and api and focusing on the kasa brand"

"it’s by far the worst i’ve seen it is so bad that it might as well not have the function"

"after that i’ve tried to reconnect the camera and got all kinds of errors possible it didn’t blink at all then it blinked but the app didn’t see the camera after few times resetting and powering off the app saw the camera but was unable to connect to wifi stating something is wrong with it i have other products by tapo and none of them ever complained about my wifi "

"and again the device eventually disappeared from the tapo app devices screen leaving me with no recourse but to reset re add it over and over again"

"as soon a it’s more than 6foot from the rooter it pretty much stops working we’ve a full mesh network with boosters and it’s terrible on this"

"i am trying to send it back but amazon only grants returns for a month before it makes you jump through hoops"

"can't really recommend as a security camera as no cloud storage meaning a burglar could simply steal the camera and there would be no record"

"i had problems setting up as could connect to camera as in guide but then kept failing part way through setup then i realised the following"

"that requires port forwarding on the router and this camera doesn't support that"

"even with the sd card installed the camera has a disgusting option that delete the entire motion notification log from the previous day"

"understand that as a security camera there can be a few issues with offline storage as the sd card can just be taken out of the camera can be smashed to bits along with the sd card but as this isn't the main reason for my purchase this doesn't bother me"

"there have been no real issues maintaining a connection and any connectivity problems are solved by exiting the program and opening again this only happens when i switch wifi signals on my phone now and then"

"would be alright for maybe 3 4 metres but anything more is terrible"

"if that's ok for you then really there's little to complain about"

"when motion detection is activated it makes a alarm noise to warn anyone that it is recording"

"so at the end you are stuck wasting a good hour each day going through clips recorded at various playback speeds to see what triggered the cam"

"i like that the sd card is hidden and not easily accessible if you don't know where to look for it"

"all the cheap other ones have issues with the software they use"

"playback for review is difficult as it captures so"

"poor show errors are confusing and contradictory"

"accessing recordings is good compared to others where i could never load recordings "

"i wanted to stream it to a desktop pc & expected that to be a little difficult but if you download the free ispy software it's hardly a problem since the camera is compatible with rtsp & onvif"

"this item may be sophisticated but when it fails the support instructions are misleading and the help desk are incompetent and do not know the product"

"both trigger separate high quality feeds to record and i make it so that if anyone steps on the front of our property the software beeps"

"the software tapo is very handy"

"this is not a first time to buy an indoor camera hopefully don’t broken after a year"

"not sure what i am going to do now?"

"for the price you really can't go wrong"

"however using the free software ispy i have imported the lower quality feeds for motion detection lower quality feeds have less weird video glitches if your camera has poor wifi connection and then i clone it so i have 2 smaller feeds one detecting the front yard another to detect the road"

"when i reinstalled it as an “existing configuration” it failed every time at the end with a black pop up that reads “the network is unstable"

"unfortunately the onvif profile it support doesn't not support ptz or rather pt since this camera has no zoom"

"pan and tilt work well no zoom capability"