I have a Tapo door contact sensor and a camera to help provide some security when I’m away. I love that this app has so many features and automations and doesn’t try to up-charge you at every turn. You can set your cameras to record to an SD card and access the recordings from the app. Cloud storage is optional and not as expensive as competitors if you want it. You can also set home and away modes for all of your Tapo devices so they can behave differently based on which mode you select. For example, your home profile can set all of your cameras to privacy mode if you wanted. You can also control when you get notifications from sensors. I have mine set to notify me whenever triggered but you can just set a specific time range to monitor too. Another cool feature is that your Tapo devices can talk to and trigger each other. If you leave the house in the morning and your door sensor is triggered, you can set it up so that your cameras automatically exit privacy mode and start recording. The app is very detailed, well thought out, and deserving of its high praise!

The app itself is pretty good. I originally used Kasa when we only had the Kasa cameras, but switched to this app since we purchased Tapo cameras for the rest of our home and couldn’t add them to the Kasa app. Kasa app was far better when it came to notifications. I have the option to only receive notifications once every 5 minutes when movement/person/sound is detected and the sensitivity turned all the way down to 1. This DOES NOT WORK AT ALL! I can get notifications as close as 11 seconds apart for the same camera/incident. It’s SO ANNOYING! This HAS to be addressed because it’s a major problem. It has me considering switching all my cameras, yet again, because I just can’t deal with all the notifications. I have tried finding somewhere to submit feedback about this issue, but can’t find the option anywhere. I’ve also tried to send an email about it, but the contact via email button takes you to a link that only provides product support. This isn’t a product issue, it’s an app issue, but there’s no option for app. You have to put in the model number for the product that’s having the problem. The search feature in support does tell you how to limit these notifications, but again, what is suggested there are the same settings that I already currently have and it just doesn’t work.

I bought this camera to watch my kittens whileMy husband and I are at work. We have two dogs who have never been around such small kittens so we just wanted to keep a watchful eye on the kitty’s. We put them in our empty guest room and use this camera to peek in. One of the kittens does not use the litter box properly every time and one of them doesn’t get a lot of food bc he is pushed out of the way. This camera has allowed us to have such peace of mind when leaving our newly adopted babies. The quality is great and even the night vision is amazing!! I love the amount of features the camera offers and is so nice to be able to move the camera around to see the entire bedroom! Something our others camera do not have! Definitely will be buying a couple more of these for our house soon!!! If you’re debating on buying it, just buy it. You will NOT be dissatisfied!! Amazing quality and provides such peace of mind 🐈‍⬛🫶🏻

I set up my cameras just before leaving the country and i use the cameras to view my house every once in a while from a different country. For some reason just today i went to check out the cameras and to my surprise it says network unstable. Couldnt figure out what was going on, i uninstalled the app and tried to relogin only to find out that my cameras are nowhere to be found anymore. Now i have cameras just dangling as decorations. Word of advice. If youre like me who tries to keep an eye on their property from a different country, dont uninstall the app cause youre definitely gonna lose those cameras. And theres no way of being able to reconnect to the cameras without having to be in front of the cameras physically. And im not spending thousands of dollars just to reconnect. So yeah was a great app until now. Just went through the reviews and one other person has a similar problem to what i have. If true, the recent update might be the issue and should be fixed. Cant believe this happened just because of an update.