No motion detection through RTSP confifuration in OpenHAB

No motion detection through RTSP confifuration in OpenHAB

No motion detection through RTSP confifuration in OpenHAB
No motion detection through RTSP confifuration in OpenHAB
Friday
Model: Tapo C320WS  
Hardware Version: V2
Firmware Version: 1.3.5 Build 250522 Rel. 45630n

My camera is not sending an ffmpegMotionAlarm by any kind of configuration settings so for. I have 3 Tapo Cameras with 2 C320WS outside and 1 C225 inside, which is working well. The main difference betwen the outside and inside cameras is the Micro SD Card. The functioning C225 camera has no SD card installed. All cameras are connected by LAN cables. Even when I disable the SD cards on the C320WS cameras, I got no MotionAlarm through my OpenHab application, whereas the Tapo App alarms works fine. 

 

The logging of the C320WS in case of an alarms sags the following:

 

2025-09-12 15:58:00.476 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Aussen_Cam1_ffmpegMotionAlarm' changed from NULL to OFF

 

The logging of the C225 camera in case of an alarm says:

025-09-12 16:42:38.963 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Innen_Cam1_ffmpegMotionAlarm' changed from NULL to OFF

2025-09-12 16:42:43.974 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Innen_Cam1_ffmpegMotionAlarm' changed from OFF to ON

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025-09-12 16:42:51.791 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Innen_Cam1_ffmpegMotionAlarm' changed from ON to OFF

 

I assume it has to do with the installation of the Micro SD Card in the C320WS cameras, even I explicitly disabled them through the Tapo App.

On the other hand I found forum entries, which say, that the activation of the Tapo Cloud Storage is blocking the ffmpeg/ rtsp motionalarm functionality. But all my cameras newer had Tapo Cloud data storage. 

I would like to keep the SD Cards in the outside cameras in order to reactivate the local storage in case of problems. And I do not want to climb up to the these roof- top cameras and insert/ remove the SD cards.

 

Do you any adice how to overcome this problem?

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Re:No motion detection through RTSP confifuration in OpenHAB
Tuesday

  @TheoMUC 

Hi,
Please confirm the following information about the reported case.


  1. Can you establish the Onvif stream on your OpenHab app with the Tapo C225? Is the motion alarm feature on your OpenHab app working when the Tapo C225 detects events?
  2. How do you disable the SD card on the Tapo C320WS? By disabling the Local Recording option on the camera's Device Settings > Storage & Recording feature?
  3. After you disable the SD card on a Tapo C320WS, can you establish the Onvif stream on your OpenHab app with the Tapo C320WS?

 

Please note that on most Tapo cameras, including the Tapo C320WS and C225, Tapo Care, SD card, and Onvif software cannot be used simultaneously to record videos or stream. You can only choose two of them at the same time.

 

Best Regards

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