Do not miss a single spot with Tapo C500 for the ultimate home security. This outdoor wireless camera keeps your property secure both day and night. With its 360° Visual Coverage, this camera offers a panoramic view of your surroundings while its pan and tilt functionality allow you to remotely control the camera’s movement and view. Effortlessly track movement with intelligent motion tracking and the convenience of pan and tilt control. The camera intuitively follows objects in its view, while its fully customizable sound and light alarm system activates upon detecting suspicious activity, effectively deterring potential intruders. No blind spots will be left unchecked, providing all-round protection of your property. Even in low-light conditions, the IR Night Vision technology ensures nothing escapes your attention, displaying clearer vision during nighttime. Connects via 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Band
360° Visual Coverage & 1080p Full HD Live View: Provides 360° horizontal & 130° vertical range to cover every corner. Reveals clear and sharp images with more details.
Person Detection and Motion Tracking: Smart AI identifies a person while tracking motion with high-speed rotation, notifying users as needed.
Night Vision (up to 98 ft): Ensures your safety by providing a clear visual distance of up to 98 ft even in total darkness.
Physical Privacy Mode: Maintains your privacy with the lens physically blocked by the housing.
Two-Way Audio w/ Customizable Sound Alarm: With high-quality microphone and speakers, activate 2-way audio, push-to-talk, anytime via the Tapo app. Additionally, record your customized audio as an alarm to extend your usages.
Flexible Storage Choices: Save recorded videos to an installed microSD card(up to 512 GB, purchased separately), or use Tapo Care cloud storage service.
Customers say
Customers find the security camera reliable and easy to set up, with crystal clear picture quality and impressive motion tracking capabilities. The camera offers good value for money, with one customer noting its affordable cloud recording options, and customers appreciate its night vision capabilities, with one mentioning it can see in pitch-black areas. The functionality receives mixed reviews – while the phone app works well, some report it stops working after a year of use. The Wi-Fi connectivity also gets mixed feedback, with some praising its performance while others report connection issues.
H –
Great camera!!
Amazing, I’m using it for indoors. Great quality, picture is also great but gets a little blurry when you zoom in but not big deal for what I’m using it for. No issues with WiFi no lags, app is extremely responsive as far as the notifications goes. The built in alarm is meh not as loud as I expected but I do not need it. Motion detection is great also. Just wish they had a 4k version I would have purchased that instead. Also the SD card option is definitely a plus no bogus subscriptions that’s another reason a replaced my ring indoor camera with TP link. Night vision is also amazing. Overall great camera all around. Definitely recommend.
USMC3531 –
Better camera
PIcture quality and width of view are way better as compared to the Foscam cameras I’m also using. The only drawback is that the two brands are not compatible for simultaneous viewing on their individual apps, or at least a dummy like me can’t figure it out. I’d like to be able to see all of my cameras on one app or viewer. Also, my Foscam outdoor cam quit working after some typical Ohio winter weather, it remains to be seen how this camera holds up. If I were to buy new cameras they would be Tapo.
Rock –
Works great and has captured package thieves!!
Love these cameras! Super easy installation. Great phone app! You can’t beat the features and the ability to adjust the viewing zones. motion sensitivity, IFR, and lighting. The camera is good, and the wifi is capable of working a greater distance from my router than I expected. Overall, I don’t think you can get a camera as as good as the TAPO for the price. The only thing different I would have done was purchase the 4k cameras.
D Wxby –
Great Cameras – Awesome App
I have been in the market for a decent camera for quite some time. Years even. Finally, it appears I found one that deliversI tried many many brands of cameras. The vast majority of them being other cheaper off- brand cameras. Most of them didn’t work right out of the box to failing just under a year of use. Most apps were clunky at best.Enter Tapo cameras. Easy to set up. Great app features. The Tapo app is extremely easy to understand and is thoughtfully designed. Tp-link actually manufactures the Tapo products. And TP-Link has been a very reputable brand over the years.The cameras themselves are good. Good clarity and great night time vision. I appreciate the ability to insert a physical micro sd card for video storage. You aren’t forced into some cloud service for that ability (although it is available if you want it). And yes, you can access all of the sd card footage from the app.There are only a couple of quibbles I have with these. If power goes out, the cameras do need to be manually adjusted back to their “home” position once power is restored. It would be infinitely helpful if there was an actual “home position” setting to commit the cameras to. So they will go back to this position in the event of a power outage. It’s annoying because all of your settings pretty much rely on this home position to function as desiredThe other quibble is if the WiFi ever changes the cameras have to be removed from your app and re-added to change what WiFi they are connected to. There really should be a WiFi change option in the app to handle this easily.Other than those two things I really appreciate how well these work. The motion tracking option isn’t bad (it’s not great though often moving too slow to keep up with the target). But it does move fast enough to keep the target within the field of view longer than a stationary camera would.The alarm function is nifty too. Set on a schedule (I have mine set at night) it will produce any number of variables like flashing lights and alert sirens if it detects people in the area. Good little feature to have to scare away someone if they think they just set off an alarm. Alternatively you can upload your own sound clip if you want verbal feedback towards your intended target.All in all these are great cameras. Now to see how they function in the long term.EDIT: After writing this review, I found in the app that you can set up to 3 different views for each camera as sort of a “pre-set”. So, this makes it slightly less combersome to move the cameras back to the home position should they need to be manually moved back after a power outage.Also it’s noteworthy to mention that shadows will set these cameras off no matter what the sensitivity settings are set to. So, on windy days the cameras are all over the place trying to chase the shadows. Also, this prevents them from returning back to the “home” position. Speaking of how they move, they are super clunky in their movements. Making motion tracking difficult for them to keep up with anything moving slower than a slow walk. I think the tracking should be sped up for this. Also, motion tracking does not work if motion is turned off. So if you just want it to track “people” it can’t. Seems like an easy thing to implement if you want to void shadow tracking and only want people to be tracked.EDIT2: Just thought I would update my review to include more information after having the cameras for a bit now. I have now turned motion tracking off. The reason being is that, as time goes on they get worse at moving to track anything. They also randomly get stuck in the field of view when tracking something and then start erroneously tracking everything all over the place after that. Never returning to the home position. So, what you get is eventually the camera will drift so far away from home position you will often get the camera just looking at the ground or up in the air somewhere until you manually re-adjust them back yourself. I knocked off a star for this as it’s a feature that seems to be more of a gimmick than a real useful function. I really do home they can update the firmware and app to make this feature more useful in the future.
WardnTX –
Compared to a few others. This won out. I bought a 2nd one and returned the others.
These are great. In fact, I tried it against a few others. I can actually connect this to my Amcrest NVR with ONVIF and it records on the sd card ( so I can can see videos with the app) and it records on my NVR so I can watch them on the monitor or my computer using Amcrest Pro.Oh , did I say watch THEM? Yes I did. Because I liked it so much I added a second one for the patio.
The product delivered was so dusty and the box cover torn on one side thereby exposing the air-filter. I hope the air-filter –
Tapo outside camera is great product
Nice product. Clarity, options of installation, 360degree turn is big advantage, one can save upto 8 pan tilt positions making it easy to use. Saves to external memory hence no need for cloud storage. So far so good and with 2yrs warranty it a plus
Amazon Customer –
Amazing quality
Literally amazed with this camera. 5 minute install. App is so easy. Has all of the features. Night vision is so crazy. Crystal clear in pitch black. Sooooo easy. I can’t stop checking the camera.
RAJAGOPAL Nagaraj –
Easy installation and setup.Works great. Amazing 2 way call function.
PETIT François –
Surveillance intérieur d’habitation
Dua khan –
Good
H Ferguson –
Excellent Products, Outstanding Customer ServiceAfter starting with a competitive (and yes, cheaper) competitor’s camera, I decided to try Tapo because I have several TP-Link devices and a WiFi router already installed in my house, and they have performed flawlessly.Good decision!My first Tapo camera choice was a wired C510W, which I wanted for our front porch, This Pan/Tilt camera is very well constructed, and easy to install. (Tapo even provided an extra screw. Who hasn’t had a dropped/lost screw turn an easy install into an unfinished nightmare?) Once installed and connected, it worked almost exactly as expected, and provided excellent video.One minor shortcoming is that the “person detect” function applies some sort of AI processing after the camera has detected motion, so you cannot easily limit recordings only to people. Turning on motion detection means capturing any movement first, and then post-processing to see if people were captured. Generated lots of recordings without people in my case. Still, really great camera controls and filters and settings to help minimize false event recording, which I did eventually master. Good notification tools and easy controls and access to review recorded video without wasting a lot of time searching. EXCELLENT camera!Another good indication of the company’s thinking is the web-based optional service provided free for the first month with the camera purchase. When the one-month trial ends, the service is terminated by default (!), so you are not automatically enrolled in the service with recurring costs every month. Easy to subscribe and keep it going, of course.My second camera was a fully wireless C425 with an integrated PIR motion detector to specifically identify and capture people or pets, to monitor comings and goings of animals in our back yard.Again, easy to install and connect, and again, a spare screw for the fumble-fingered amon us. The PIR makes recording of animals and people a breeze. The battery life is very good so far, although I have a lot of squirrels in the yard, so the camera wakes up often. Still, after three weeks of recording squirrels abd rabbits, the battery is still at 83%, more than meeting my expectations.Totally satisfied with the PIR funcionality and the camera features overall. Another W=EXCELLENT camera.As a final note, Tapo’s customer service has been simply outstanding. Quick, knowledgable, relevant responses, and an obvious commitment to customer satisfaction make this arguably the best company I’ve ever dealt with when it comes to customer support.This review is uncompensated, and posted to each of the two cameras mentioned.
Abu Aysha –
Easy to configure and install