TC82 KIT 2K 3MP Solar Battery Outdoor Security Camera Wireless

Security cameras are a really useful and relatively cost effective investment for any home. The provide peace of mind when you are away and keep a beady eye on things for you. Unfortunately, they can be a pain to set up. We have several dotted around the house and outside but, up until this purchase, they have all been mains wired and a little tricky to position. I held off buying a battery powered camera due to fears about battery life, but there was really no other option in the location I wanted a camera, so I went for this Tapo TC82 with solar panel charger. After unpacking everything, it was a pretty speedy setup. Charge the battery to full, fix the camera in place, connect the solar panel, connect the camera to the home WiFi via the excellent Tap app. Battery charging aside, installation took around an hour. Picture quality is very good, motion detection is also good, although it doesn't detect beyond around 25m. That might be because the motion is directly towards the camera. I think if it had been 90 degrees to the camera, motion detection would have been a little further. Battery life has been good so far. Camera has been in operation for almost a month and the battery was at 98% when I installed it. It is now at 91% and that is with the solar panel facing NW in January! I think, as Spring arrives and the sun rises higher in the sky, the battery will be able to charge to 100%. I will, hopefully, update the review accordingly. Overall, very happy with it so far - I think that I am only going to use battery powered cameras going forward. Maybe if I need a motorised camera I will have to opt for mains power but the field of view on this is so wide that constant adjustment isn't really needed. The price point is also good, and none of the other Tapo devices we have around the house has let us down yet - it seems a very good brand and excellent value for money. Highly recommended. UPDATE: two months in, Mid March now, and battery is holding at 90%. Solar panel still facing NW with no direct sunlight as yet. Camera working beautifully.

Well what can say other then superb, easy to set up, a doddle to fit to wall, worked straight away, put in a sd card and stores footage of movements, really good price, was going to order another but cheeky amazon have put up the price so wait till it is offer, picture and audio is perfect

Firstly, I've been really impressed by the solar charging - whilst it's south facing I had my doubts and didn't want to have to charge it manually... Its been up over a year and I've never seen it less than full! Quick and easy to install and setup and the app is really quite good, I've ended up using multiple tapo products as the integration is good. Only loses a star as the detention range is a noticeably shorter than it's wired companion despite being on the most sensitive setting.

Having already gotten a Tapo smart doorbell, I decided to buy this surveillance camera due to the fact that there are management-owned bushes growing outside my front door that blocks the view of my doorbell camera and needed a CCTV of the place from overhead. This CCTV camera was better than I expected. If you have a flat metallic surface on the outside of your house, it will facilitate the installation process. The camera's mount serves as a magnetic base for both the camera and the metallic surface you wish to attach it to. Fortunately for me, there is a large strip of metal directly above my door, so I was able to get away with the easy installation route. Because I set up this device without its included solar panel, this means the camera's power depends entirely on its built-in battery, which does last for quite some time. For me, it lasts roughly a month between recharges. I live in a gated community where my neighbours would occasionally walk their dogs or kids would play about in my area, so it would naturally run down the battery due to multiple detections per day. With the 4K quality and Starlight AI Sensor, you can practically see anything you want to in clear view, even at night without having to turn to IR. The quality is good, but I would not expect to have the camera set to record in 4K, as a higher video resolution is guaranteed to take up storage much quicker. Thankfully, the Tapo app has a feature where you can loop record (automatically remove old footage and store in new footage simultaneously), but I'd rather have as much saved footage as possible, just in case. This camera comes with floodlights and a speaker. The floodlights are great - they can illuminate anything within 5 to 10 meters, and with the camera settings, can even be used as flashing lights whenever a person or a thing is detected within range. Frankly, the sound quality leaves a lot to be desired - one would have to practically shout to be audible. However, I personally bought this device to serve as a surveillance camera, so the sound doesn't really matter to me at all. The speaker can be used for two-way talking and siren blaring, which depends entirely on the user's preferences. Because this camera operates entirely on a magnetic mount, I would highly recommend this camera to be mounted well beyond people's reach. The camera has a SD card slot for video storage. If anybody swipes this camera, your goose is cooked. There is a service called Tapo Care where it can cloud-store unlimited footage for you, but if you'd rather save your money and depend on SD storage, then keep this thing out of people's reach. With all that said, the only downside to this device I personally had was the lagtime to access live and stored footage, particularly during the daytime. Sometimes, it would take at least 10 seconds to gain access. Sometimes, I wouldn't even be able to gain access at all. I found out the only remedy to this was to get an outdoors Wi-Fi extender, which helped significantly.

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 wired Also 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....

I've had this for a good while. Probably more than a year. It has worked this whole time. I have it situated about 40 meters from my house at the end of the garden. No issues with Wi-Fi at all. The battery is always over 95%. The picture is good and the sensitivity is fine.

Great camera, clear and easy to use. Doesn’t come with a SD card so do order one. Easy to set up. Great that it’s wireless, and battery lasts for weeks once charged.

Works great very happy I have a tapo door bell easy to setup Battery life is great with the solar panel keep charged and very clear picture great value for money and you don’t need a subscription. Works with the app

Llevo un tiempo usando esta cámara y estoy muy satisfecho. Funciona de maravilla: la calidad de imagen es muy buena, la detección es rápida y no da fallos. Uno de los puntos fuertes es la batería. Gasta muy poco y dura bastante tiempo sin necesidad de recargar, incluso con un uso frecuente. Para ser una cámara Wi-Fi de batería, la autonomía es realmente destacable. La configuración con la app Tapo es muy sencilla y rápida. En pocos minutos está funcionando, la app es clara, estable y fácil de adaptar incluso si no eres muy técnico. Desde el móvil se controla todo sin complicaciones. En general, una cámara muy completa, fiable y cómoda de usar. Muy buena compra y totalmente recomendable.

Excellent product, love how easy it is to relocate the solar panel anyway with the supplied 4m cable, unlike some brands who charge you for extension cable.The app is very easy to navigate and works great with a micro sd card saving you on buying subscription like some other brands. Excellent product and highly recommend

Zeer uitstekend, gemakkelijk te gebruiken, pakt wifi op van grote afstand, zeer uitstekende batterij

Nachdem mein Toyota aufgebrochen, die Hybridbatterie gestohlen und ein Gesamtschaden von 11000 Euro am Fahrzeug hinterlassen wurde, habe ich mir nun mehrere Tapo C425 zugelegt zur Überwachung meines Hofs. Installation mit der Tapo App ist schnell erledigt, Bild-/Videoqualität gut. Erfassungswinkel hoch, Personenerkennung tagsüber gut, nachts soweit in Ordnung. Man muss mit den Einstellungen der Kamera etwas probieren bis man die optimale Einstellung gefunden hat. Die angebene Akku-Laufzeit ist nicht praxisnah, die eine Kamera braucht pro Woche 15% Akku, die andere 5%. Die dritte Kamera hat Solarpanel, ist immer auf 100% trotz nur 1,5 Stunden direkte Sonne. Mit Hub 200 und SD Karte spart man sich das Abo. Aufgrund der Magnethalterung besteht die Gefahr, das die Kamera mit einer langen Stange gelöst und verschwinden kann. Die Kamera hat aber je einen Gewindegang hinten und unten für alternative Anbringungsmethoden.

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