TapoC500 1080P Full HD Outdoor Pan/Tilt Security Camera, 360°Motion Tracking, IP65, Smart Person Detection, Colour Night Vision, Cloud and Local Storage, Works With Alexa and Google, No Monthly Fee

Been testing in my own garden before installing at my parents house & had mine up for 2 weeks now - I'm impressed enough to leave a quick review; all features seem to work fine including motion detection and zones.Solar panel seems to work pretty well to me (in UK in March). Installed cam out the box at 67% charge. Was concerned the first few days in dull overcast conditions (battery drained 7% in 48 hours with heavy initial usage). After the novelty of checking it hourly, I fell into using as I expect it to be used, with about 8-10 activations a day (me walking to/from my garden office). Since having some spring sunshine, the solar panel alone charged to 99% over about 4 days and its stayed at that level since.Just did a hour long viewing session test and that dropped battery just 1% (from 99% to %98) while in full UK March sunshine. Every 10 mins or so I noticed a wifi dropout/reconnect of 1-3 seconds, but kind of the performance you might expect.I suspect this will need a monthly-ish charge up over the darker winter months, but think thats fine for my use case. Included in the box is a USB-C extension cable so reckon a step ladder and powerbank hookup should be all it takes.Will definitely buy more once they're back on offer again (paid £50 for mine).

Excellent easy to set up camera. Solar panel keeps battery charged, picture is good. I’ve had other cameras nowhere near as easy to set up. Well recommended, we’ll be getting rid of out big name doorbell camera and replacing with Tapo.

Very good camera and excellent floodlight for a very reasonable price compared to others on the market. Highly recommend, will be purchasing another for the other side of house.

great cameras battery life is good the options you have for installing are fantastic, comes iwth a hugh long cable length so you can install the solar pannel where it gets the sun while still having camera where its needed, ive not had to charge them once and they have been up a year they dipped to about 60% by febuary and i installed them end of summer 2024, you dont need a subsciption which is even better, the pciture is clear even at night and the onboard spotlight is good enough to light up the view for a better look, a few down sides but minor are the alarm could be louder, and the wifi connectivity while easy, is a touch lacking on range but for price you really cant complain too much.

Absolutely rate Tapo products. No extra fees unless you want to pay for storage ect which is hard to come by now days!Great looking product as well an amazing quality and picture quality . The connection is great and there isn’t lag. Notifications come though great. The solar panel is amazing making battery life not a problem.

Great product going to buy another one soon

Having bought various Tapo cameras both internal and external I can honestly say they have all been brilliant. The external cameras with solar panels are the most impressive, easy to set up and the solar panels keep them fully charged. This includes one camera which solar panel only gets about 30 minutes of sunlight a day.Was so reassuring when abroad on holiday to be able to keep an eye on the house/cars.The picture quality is great and are a good visual deterrent. Can't recommend them enough

I bought two of those cameras to check my driveway and my backyard just because i had children jumping the fence in the past, damage my cars and so on.I am impressed by the quality and features of those cameras. Especially considering how cheap they are and easy to mount.Privacy zones are great if neighbours ever complain about it i can turn them on.Also the adjustment of sensitivity and detection zones greatly improve the battery life as without changing the default settings i would get detections all the time especially in the driveway.This is not recording continously and i don't need it to. It's great when used with cloud service and i think i will pay for it, at least for the camera that's outside.I did add 128GB sd cards to the cameras just in case i need them.To format greater than 32GB storage to FAT32 use rufus.exe download it from the official website and then select the sd card and format it as non bootable Large FAT32. When you will insert the sd card in the cameras it will say its not properly formatted just press initialize and it will work.My only complain to those cameras are battery life. I installed them while on and the driveway one had a few detections that i didn't care for.. the battery is already down to 96% in 12 hours so i don't expect it to last as advertised unless there are no detections (there will be)However i expect the solar panels to help a bit as i do get a bit of sun in the last part of the day.If not, the driveway one has a very long type c usb cable, i can just unplug it from the solar panel and plug it in my portable battery which is really fast at charging. So no issues there.Happy so far i don't think i need anything more than this. But if i ever need serious surveillance i would go wiredAlso the wifi signal is surprisingly strong. I expected to need a wifi booster or something. There is some slight delay in relaying the live feed especially to the one that's in the driveway as it has 2 lines of signal instead of 3.Edit: really bad product overall, first of all the solar panels are useless, don't charge at all even if i get 3-4 hours of direct sunlight.The motion detection is horrible. It goes all over the place it does detect stuff that is too far away or doesn't detect movements close by.... regardless of the sensitivity setting.The zones that you can setup do not work at all, it constantly detects my neighbours outside those zones and give me false alarms.....Car detection is useless as it constantly pings you that your own car is in the driveway.Not happy with it, not recommending. I would return this if i wouldn't be so busy and if i could have the boxes in good condition plus all the bits and pieces. I already drilled holes in my walls and fitted everything. I would have to go and borrow the ladder again and do all that hassle. I wish i would've listened to others and just install some wired high quality cameras.Edit2: the driveway camera completely disconnected from the app without me doing anything and it doesn't work anymore. I am abroad at the moment. My brother in law checked on it and i told him to get close to check if the green LED for detection lights up. Apparently that green LED doesn't so the camera does not work at all, doesn't even record on sd card if not connected. It is possible it broke down already...... i am not sure what happened. To remove the camera myself i have to confirm doing so. I am 100% i didn't remove it....