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I've recently purchased a tapo c200 camera - ive got it set up to continously record and also get the notifactions from motion detection.
However when I look at the recordings there is no indication of when motion was detected. (I need to have both as i need to be able to look at what happened before the motion was detected)
The motion notifations are coming through so it is picking it up- but just not showing it anywhere in the app (tried the tapo and tapo camera apps).
Is there a setting im missing?
Hi guys,
I have recently installed some Tapo cameras for indoor and outdoor use.
The recording on the Tapo app is working good for me. I am getting continuous recording and any movement is highlighted in orange in the time bar.
In the recording schedule, I have it as continuous recording, but then have motion detection turned on.
I've attached screen shots below if you guys want to try it yourselves.
I do have a couple issues/suggestions that TP-Link should definitely consider.
- The above only works with Away Mode. I can have the same settings in Home mode, but when I switch between the two modes, the configurations reset and Home mode reverts back to continuous recording without highlights. The activity zones also reset if I switch between modes which sucks.
- In the Playback section, my outdoor cameras (C310 cameras) have a thumbnail when motion is detected and you can select the thumbnail to view the motion footage. The indoor cameras (C200 cameras) only have the orange bars on the time line so can take some time to toggle to the very start of the motion recording.
- TP-Link should enable multiple settings in the app as would be handy to have a few ready to go according to circumstances.
*Indoor timeline
*Outdoor timeline
* Recording Schedule
*Motion dection turned on
On my Tapo app, it look like the following:
It does NOT show motion detection in the playback (TP-LINK previous product does show motion detection in the playback)
or put it another way, we need to select both "Continuous Recording" and "Motion Detection" in the "Edit Schedule" screen:
It make no sense to have the user made such selection, these two options should not be mutually exclusive, I simply want continuous recording and also please show me the auto detected periods in the playback, and below is the screen capture of previous TP-LINK camera app, tpCamera:
I found the motion alert notification list on the app, on home screen of Tapo app, there is a mail icon on the upper right corner, and tapping that icon bring up a screen with a list of motion alerts, and tapping the notification bring up the video playback starting from the time the motion was detected, and you can then move the playback forth or back to any moment that you wish to investigate, provided recording is available I guess.
It doesn't highlight the motion alerts in the timeline bar like in the previous tpCamera app, and the motion alerts is not shown on the video playback screen either, where one would naturally expects it to be. Another issue is the scale of the timeline is too coarse, and it is very hard to move the playback in fine step like in 1 or 2 minutes, and sometime the playback doesn't respond to the changes in the timeline bar, again, the previous tp-link camera app does a much better job, it highlight the motion alerts in the timeline bar, it show the alerts on the same playback screen (who would want to go back and forth to another screen to check the list and then come back to the playback screen!), it also has a finer timeline scale that allow me to move the playback in finer step.
It seems that this Tapo app is not very well designed, at least when compared to previous camera app from tp-link, although the hardware itself is decent.
