@Solla-topee 

I would love to have the option to disable the internal IR in night mode due to severe spider issues since those are heavily attracted by the light and hence think that is a perfect place for web just in front of the lense... I would like use an external IR source instead to get rid of this never ending issue. Pleeease :-)

BR

Lars

I have the same problem, I want to disable the IR permanently

I don't know why tapo is so tone deaf about what they should be providing users for functionality. 

I did design work for 20 years throughout all technologies across the decades. I've worked in four service departments in electronics design companies, worked my way up through engineering, design, product lifecycles, compliance testing, user testing, done it all. I requested several times that they stopped reinventing the square wheel and give us the functionality that's been standard for a decades. in surveillance systems.

Controlled lighting across the entire spectrum that a camera is capable of receiving is basic design requirement for most standard surveillance systems for decades. Either through control systems or integrated. 

The C520ws is a design disaster from the top  using basic motors for a function that requires stepping motors, not considering that pesky variable humidity in their friction models so it never lines up. Cheap chips with limited capabilities for tracking and detection, poor poor poor user and service experience.

Basically, the initial response to this thread would have never been posted at most of the places I've worked. The word pathetic comes to mind. 

They won't change it because they didn't design the electronics to allow variable infared. When engineers do the user testing, products always have great potential but fail epically during implementation. Most of them don't think dynamically enough.