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Add Timelapse

 
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Add Timelapse

Add Timelapse
Add Timelapse
2025-04-11 18:07:14 - last edited 2025-04-11 18:09:59
Tags: #New Product Idea #Timelapse
Model: Tapo C520WS  
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I bought Outdoor camera "Tapo C520WS", which is a very good one, and offering a lot of handy features.

But there's one important thing I'm missing much, maybe I'm gonna return the cam because the lack of this feature:

 

Timelapse!

 

Take a snapshot each constant time intervall, e.g. 1 minute, 10 minutes, 1 hour. And finally create a video of these snapshots spaning a certain time period like 1 day, 1 week or 1 month. This would be great for weather observations, or observations of the upgrowing nature like trees, plants of farmlands etc.

 

Please add it to the App of your Camera series, since some of your competitior companies in the same price class already are offing Timelapse for their cameras, thank you!

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2025-04-14 09:09:01

  @Samcem 

Hi, 
Thank you for your feedback here, we certainly appreciate your feedback and feature request.
While we don't have any specific details that I can share about if this feature can come to the product or when it might, I'll log the feature request and pass it along to the team to evaluate.
If other users have the same request, please vote on this thread and leave your usage scenario for evaluation.
Best Regards
 

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2025-05-02 20:01:09 - last edited 2025-05-02 20:02:29

I agree for all product!

I had to buy a reolink product to do this because their app does it natively! :( 

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2025-06-24 10:05:25

  @Samcem  Please add this feature. Should have been here ages ago :)

 

Regards Jolll

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2025-06-24 10:06:24
Add timelapse feature
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2025-07-02 10:53:36

  @Solla-topee 
I agree, timelapse is a function I want. Otherwise good camera. Shouldn't be necessary to buy new brand/camera just for that purpose

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2025-09-14 22:35:41
Timelapse please, good for seeing sun paths for planning gardens
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2 weeks ago
adding this option can add so much more potential, the list is infinite
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Yesterday - last edited Yesterday

Market & Trends
Video Consumption Shift: Time-lapse is a dominant format across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram (perfect for Shorts, Reels, viral content).

TP-Link can evolve from a “security brand” to a lifestyle brand.

 

Competitor Benchmark:
Reolink cameras already offer native time-lapse.
They actively market it for:
Construction/renovation tracking
Gardening and plant growth

 

 

Technical Feasibility
Low engineering cost:
Hardware is already capable (frames captured for “365/24-7 Capture”).
Only requires an export mode to bundle frames at chosen intervals (1s, 5s, 30s).


Strategic Positioning
With time-lapse, TP-Link shifts perception:
From “just security” → to “your smart life companion.”
Competitor already owns this narrative.
Time-lapse is a low-cost, high-ROI feature with huge brand amplification.

 

 


Please add an option to place or remove a TP-Link watermark in time-lapse videos (with the watermark enabled by default).
This will undoubtedly help with brand promotion.

We are living in the era of viral video — don’t miss this opportunity!

 

I personally bought the C660 because I mistook the 24/7 Capture feature for a true time-lapse function.

After using it, I realized the difference, but instead of switching to Reolink, I chose to trust the TP-Link development team and wait a little longer. That is why I’m writing this long message.

Please, seriously consider this feature.

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