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Tapo C210: Home/Away Mode Shortcut/Automation Support

 
125
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Tapo C210: Home/Away Mode Shortcut/Automation Support

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Re:Tapo C210: Home/Away Mode Shortcut/Automation Support
Monday

  @Solla-topee

 

This is a must have for these cameras.

 

Here is just one use case.

 

When home, I want my cameras recording activities for liability purposes. I've got two dogs and a public path that runs by my house. But, when I'm home I do NOT want notifications that the lawn guy is outside spreading fertilizer or the pest guy is spraying outside my home or the kids are in the pool or I'm out there picking up dog droppings.  I don't want the C246D PTZ lense tracking everyone's movements or alarms going off.  I'm home, my cameras need to record these activities, but that's it.

 

When I'm home and asleep, I do want these notifications and alarms.  Someone walks around my pool at 2am?  Yeah, sound that alarm baby!

 

When I leave, same thing.  Alarm and notifications.

 

The problem?  I'm not a single dude living by myself.  I have a wife and two kids.  Sometimes I've left the house and they are home.  Sometimes I'm traveling and they are home.

 

Is the TP-Link official position that I need to give my TP-Link username and password to my wife and daughters so they can log in as me?  That is a horrible security practice. And then we need to hope that my wife and kids (who are not very tech savy) will remember to always turn on Home or Away mode when they leave the house?  I can't get my youngest daughter to always remember to lock the front door for crying out loud!

 

In a perfect world, I'd be able to setup an automation through TP-Link or Smarththings or Alexa or IFFTT or whatever that would allow me to set Home/Away on my Tapo cameras at the same time I'm setting Armed/Disarmed modes on door sensors, water sensors, motion sensors, and locks in all my other automation environments.

 

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Re:Tapo C210: Home/Away Mode Shortcut/Automation Support
Thursday

In the camera menu, you can activate the away mode. However, this mode only affects the cameras. But when I leave the house, I need to activate other sensors as well! I would like the same button (shortcut) to allow me to activate sensors as well as cameras. The same goes for home mode.

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RE:Tapo C210: Home/Away Mode Shortcut/Automation Support
Friday
I would love to be able to have geofencing to switch between home and away mode because I recently forgot to turn away mode on when I left for work and my dog got stuck in my bedroom. My roommate was unable to find her & thought she had got out. If the modes were able to be automated with geofencing like privacy mode is, my camera would have alerted me there was motion in my bedroom because it would have been set automatically to away mode.
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