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Have you thought about getting another camera to position better? You can get a TP-Link Tapo camera that's solar powered for like $50. Can be hosted locally too without a subscription, just drop in a microSD card and you don't have to worry about any sort of additional subscription to store the vide

You're paying for subscriptions because you're buying consumer grade cameras. With the money you spent over those years, you can buy some TP-LINK Tapo or other solar cameras with onvif protocol. Also, buy an outdoor wifi range extender, a good cheap one like Wavlink or something like that. If it has

I bought two D205 doorbells for my front and back entrances. One of them drains about 14% per day. I have to block out time every morning to rotate and recharge them before the neighbors-from-hell wake up. They're furious that I installed several Tapo cameras so they would notice if one was out of p

my tapo camera worked great for years and now it wont connect after battery died... wtf

The biggest thing to know about Battery-Powered cameras is that even with a Solar Panel to charge, they are not ideal for high-traffic areas. The battery drain in high-traffic areas is generally too much for the camera to keep up with, even with a solar panel. This isn't just for TP-Link/Tapo camera

We have 8 outdoor Tapo cameras and they work fine for us. They are PoE/wired to the network and not using the WiFi capability built into them. The cameras can be configured to record to a NVR and we had one for quite a few years but I shut it down recently. We have SD cards in the cameras and use th

Detection on the solar cameras has an incredibly short range and is slow and unreliable. The solar cameras are heavily biased towards saving the battery with very little control to change it. The wired cameras have better detection but still not great. The cameras do not work with each other or with