TC82 KIT 2K 3MP Battery Solar Security Camera Outdoor, Maintenance-free, Colour Night Vision, Outdoor Camera No Monthly Fee, Smart Person Detection, IP65, Works with Alexa & Google

Great quality images. Perfect with playback using SD card. setting up reasonably easy but takes a little while to get the settings as you want them. Solar panel charges adequately but will see how it goes over the winter months. Motion detection good and the brightness of the 2 spotlights gives extra protection although the brighter they are the more battery you use. Look good when up. I attached it to my down pipe using a tree strap. No need for drilling and you can easily remove it if you want to.

I love this camera, it's easy to install and gives a very good picture. Solar panel, if well placed, keeps the camera battery topped up well. It's been at 100% all summer. App support has some quirks like reminding me that my car's on the drive whenever camera is viewed, or turned off and back on. Overall an excellent choice for the price, especially if you use the local storage on a hub. Just ordered a second one to cover the rear of the property.

I discovered that using this camera Samsung SmartThings the battery drain was very high. This is the case for all my Tapo battery cameras. By removing them from SmartThings the battery drain returned to normal. This camera is easy to setup and install, has a good WiFi range and can be kept at a high battery level with the solar panel provided it is not constantly activated.

Great CCTV camera with solar power supply. Easy to fit the bracket with enclosed template, screws and wall plugs. Instructions very clear and easy to connect to the Tapo app. Provides excellent video, both day and night. Good value price too.

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.

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....

Was a little worried at first as it wasn't charging much but that's just Irish weather, once the sun comes out it charges quickly and during cloudy days it kinda stays the same battery. Two days back to back sun is enough to have it almost fully charged. Camera quality is great for the price. Easy to setup and install

I bought 3 of these cameras 3 months ago in the believe that it’s a good product, but after 3 months one of these battery has died and couldn’t charge with any of the adapter and cables, solar neither. I tried to contact to customer service, they told me to fix the software and it is clearly the hardware problem. I don’t know how will they solve this problem.

Cámara de muy buena calidad, funciona perfectamente con una calidad de imagen muy buena, incluso si realizas un zoom puedes ver detalles con una resolución muy aceptable. La batería es muy potente y sin carga tiene una duración que puede durar varios meses, con la placa solar conectada, desde que las he instalado, siempre marca 100%, aunque estamos en verano, no creo que tenga problemas en invierno. Tiene muchas funciones de configuración que las puedes adaptar a tus necesidades. Solo espero que la durabilidad sea igual de buena.

correspond tout à fait à la description. Simple et fonctionnel.

Simple d'installation, la qualité d'image est là. Là détection est peut-être moins ambitieuse qu'annoncée. Le solaire recharge bien les batterie pour le moment. A voir dans le temps.