Tapo A201 Solar Panel, Flexible Installation and Angle Adjustment, High-Efficiency 45min Solar Charging for Full Day Usage, Non-Stop Power Supply, IP65, Compatible with All Battery Cameras

I needed a solution to allow external cameras at my elderly mum's house. Wired cameras were not an easy option. I fitted the battery operated Tapo 2k cameras which are good. However I didn't want to be up and down the ladder and charging them if I could avoid it so I took a chance with the solar panels too. They work perfectly. The cameras only use a very small amount of charge anyway, and these seem to top up daily. Hopefully the batteries will manage the level of charging as the solar panels just supply the voltage. I was worried grey days may not be enough, but so far, grey skies in March and they seem to be doing fine. Seems to be the ideal solution so far. Comes with extra cables and fittings, micro usb and c. Re the cameras. Well I had Kasa kit, and at last TPLink have now created an app that does both Kasa and Tapo. The cameras work well. Motion and Person detection seems to be good, the image is clear. Night vision is in colour and the spot light is good. Infra red if you prefer. If you swop to live view, the camera does take a few seconds to refresh but I am using the internet to connect to my mum's place so that may be it. For the money, and the wireless convenience these are ideal. Wired systems recording 24/7 are obviously better but you going to have to pay and get all the wiring.

Having read and watched a bunch of reviews of this and many other cameras, I settled on the Tapo 2K wireless camera pair + hub. The main reasons being ease of installation, product reliability, image quality and especially that a subscription is not required. I knew that a wireless installation would be more straightforward than having to drill and run wiring, but I was not expecting the fantastic job the company have done to hold your hand during the installation process. There is a brief and clear initial setup guide, which includes a QR code for you to continue the installation via your phone. I really liked this. Each step was clearly presented, one at a time. I was very pleased when you'd be told something along the lines of "when you plug this in, the indicator will blink red for a few seconds and then go green". And what was forecast would be correct each time, so I'd know the installation was proceeding correctly. Before long I'd got the cameras and hub installed, all without a hitch, even though this was my first time installing CCTV. The app is great and works a treat. So many ways you can control and fine tune the system to suit your needs. Until I got used to it though sometimes I would struggle to find the right menu path to reach the setting I wanted to tweak. But it didn't take long to become familiar with the options important to me. I didn't want to use the offered subscription service - why keeping paying for something you've bought? So I installed a 256GB microSD into the hub. This turned out to be much larger capacity than I really needed. It's taking forever to fill it up, even connected to 3 cameras (I ended up buying the same package again to extend my CCTV coverage). And if it does fill up then the system can continue recording by discarding the oldest if you haven't deleted some old stuff yourself first. So 128GB would have been fine. Having bought this package twice, I have 3 cameras connected to 1 hub and the 4th camera connected to the 2nd hub. I've split them this way because their wireless signal will go through 2 or 3 sets of brick wall and our 4th camera's signal couldn't reach the first hub. So I connected the 2nd hub to our WiFi closer to where the 4th camera is mounted. The whole system performs very well. The image quality is fine and the cameras start recording correctly under the criteria that I selected - I turned off pet, vehicle and movement alerts and chose human detection alerts. The system uses AI to distinguish them. I chose movement detection to be off because of very long grass waving in the wind causing false alarms. We have a glass table on the patio. In the summer this would sometimes set off the camera overlooking it. This was because it would emanate heat from the sun which would trigger the camera to look for a human - and then sometimes cloud reflections on it would look like a human! So I set the area scanned by the camera to exclude the table top - it's very handy being able to precisely specify which parts of the view seen by a camera should be monitored and which should not. The camera at the front door gets the most triggering, mostly from deliveries. Accordingly its battery lasts a little over 3 months before needing recharging. The camera that is triggered the least still has 87% charge after 3 months. The cameras are solidly well made and feel reassuringly hefty and robust in the hand. Overall I'm entirely pleased with the product, its ease of installation and use, its performance and its price.

I see this panel is advertised as suitable for charging cameras. I bought it for my Tapo doorbell as I couldn't see how the power wasn't suitable for either, and it works fine. I've had it a few months and on a nice summers day it will recharge 50+% per day. This is only a rough figure as it will depend on position, weather etc. In the winter it will be lucky to reach 2% charging, often much less. That saying it's now November and although it's losing battery power the panel slows the loss significantly. I have a cable (6m) for charging it from the mains - without removing the doorbell from it's mount and weather proof cover - which has always been my expectation but the less the better. The 4m cable which comes with the panel is good quality and a decent length. The panel itself is robust and comes with all the required fixings. Mine is sited facing south-ish at a height of 8ft. The Tapo app enables you to view the solar charging data over 7/30 days, along with charge used per event and other relevant info. Very useful. This panel is a good purchase as these doorbells are notorious for poor battery performance (against claimed figures), especially if not well set up. My unit has settled down in the time i've had it and the battery seems to function considerably better than when first bought. Although this item has increased in price since I bought mine it's still a good option as compared to all the faff of constant recharging or sorting out a mains supply.

The camera works well. Images are good and clear. The set up is easy although the app is a bit clunky but fine for what it does. I didn't initially buy the solar panel but the if you don't have it the battery runs done quite quickly- a few days, so Decided to get it and it works well, had it two weeks and battery is at 90% - weather has been cloudy, overall really pleased with the whole product

Au top.avec le hub ,pas d 'abonnement avec carte micro Sd.Tp link font un travail serieux.Marque de securité

Perfect …works very well

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Produto compatível com câmara tapo c460. Funciona bem