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Continuous recording on battery cameras

  This repeated request has been merged into the main thread Continuous Recording for battery power camera with external power source . Please vote on the main thread.

 
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Continuous recording on battery cameras

  This repeated request has been merged into the main thread Continuous Recording for battery power camera with external power source . Please vote on the main thread.
Continuous recording on battery cameras
Continuous recording on battery cameras
2025-05-16 06:43:57 - last edited 2025-05-19 01:49:07
Model: TC82 KIT  
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Hello,

 

I have a TC82 powered by solar panel. I know that all battery cameras have recording triggered by motion only (I wish i knew this before). I've set all parameters to maximum, so my camera is recording almost permanently during the day, but still sometimes the detection triggers recording too late. Dispite these settings my camera has always 100% battery thanks to sunny place I live in.

 

Because of things mentioned above I don't understand why the heck can't the TAPO app let me decide whether I want to set the camera to continous recording with warning that it might drain my camera battery. Please enable continuous recording for battery cameras. Let the customer decide how to use his own camera!

 

Thank you!

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Re:Continuous recording on battery cameras
2025-05-19 01:48:14 - last edited 2025-05-19 01:48:28

  @Daniel-VE 

 

If you need more sensitive detection and continuous recording capabilities, I recommend considering an AC-powered camera. 

 

Continuous recording consumes a significant amount of power, the power supplied by the solar panel is inadequate to meet this demand, and the energy input is unstable, that means the camera might only function for a day or two, or even just a few hours in this case. 

 

Despite all that, we're open to all suggestions. For this request, you can join this existing request post, vote and comment. The product team will review the feature requests regularly, hot topics with detailed background information (e.g. use scenarios, reasons why you want or don't want a certain feature, etc) will be prioritized for evaluation. Perhaps new types of products will be available for this scene, who knows!

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Re:Continuous recording on battery cameras
2025-05-23 05:19:34

  @Wayne-TP 

 

Sorry, but your advice is not very useful. If I had the opportunity to use AC camera on the place I need the camera, I would buy an AC camera which is much cheaper. 

I just need continuous recording for a few hours a day, but I can't. This is a shame. I'm not buy Tapo products in the future. 

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