• C212 - 30€ / 2023 - (1.3.14) amazon
  • (1.3.14) - mandatory to set static ip
• C220 - 23€ / 2025 - (1.4.1) amazon
  • stream1 is 2560x1440 - slow over wifi
  • stream2 is 640x360
• C210 - 18€ / 2025 - (1.1.1) amazon

Pro

• once setup / rstp is functional and can be accessed by ffplay (for eg).
• seems to be supported by iSpy

Cons

• Need to install Android/iOS App + create an account
  • setup is a bit strange (and derouting at first) when trying to setup the Wifi connection
  • the app establish a direct wifi link with the camera and so android complain severa time about losing network: it’s just that the connection first switch from wifi to direct cam then to wifi: don’t restablish the connection from the android popup or it will mess the setup.

RSTP Setup

Setup can only be done through the App

• Choose Reglages de l’appareil/Réglages avancés
  • Compte de la caméra : enable - define login / mdp here
  • Paramètre réseau - static ip can be define here.
• one account at the tapo level for global setting
  • a second configuration from the app to create a user/password and enable the RTSP feed for the device.
    • high quality rtsp://user:password/IP Address/stream1
    • low quality rtsp://user:password/IP Address/stream2
  • RSTP is not enabled when a SDCard is present
• Wifi is restricted to 2.4Ghz

ONVIF / PTZ

ONVIF stands for Open Network Video Interface Forum.
PTZ stands for Pan-Tilt-Zoom.

• HomeAssistant - easy to install as docker image
  • podman run -d --name homeassistant --privileged --restart=unless-stopped -e TZ=Europe/Paris -v /home/yves/home_assistant:/config --network=host ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable
  • ONVIF - use port :2020 for tapo camera device - HomeAssistant - Tapo: Cameras Control
• ONVIFViewer / gitlab - Linux Internet Camera Viewer - dev stopped

see also

• How to view Tapo camera on PC through RTSP stream
• Tapo P100 Homebridge - javascript server emulating Homekit API
  • HomeAssistant - Tapo: Cameras Control
• TP-Link Tapo C200 Camera Reverse Engineering
  • THE Tapo C200 Research Proj.
  • Vulnerabilities (CVE)
• Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock - how many existing Ring owners would have bought the camera had they known they would eventually give third parties access to the camera footage.