"Home" and "Away" in two houses
Hello everyone.
I have two houses with cameras in each, one house in the city and one in the mountains.
I have a problem with the "Home" and "Away" modes.
I would like to always keep motion recording active, so I don't want to use the "Privacy" mode.
But I would also like to be able to deactivate the cameras of the house where I live and activate the others with a single command.
And this is not possible for me.
For now, I have solved it by considering "Home" the cameras of the city house and "Away" those of the mountain house.
So I touch "Home" when I am in the city and "Away" when I am in the mountains.
The problem arises when I am traveling and, to activate ALL the cameras, I have to act on the settings of each one.
Thanks for any suggest.
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Hi,
In this situation, you can vote and leave your usage scenario on the thread "Tapo app more camera modes needed" for evaluation.
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Yes!
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I feared as much. I am in the same situation as you exactly.
The only thing I came up with was setting up smart actions to arm and disarm the cameras themselves (which is not what you want to do) depending on where I was eg "disarm Home", "Arm Mountains".
To control the notifications, I just turn them off for each camera: "Me" (bottom right icon on main screen) > notifications > Management. Don't forget to switch them back on though, because the smart actions won't, even fi you re-activate a camera.
Having Notification control on a smart action would get around this annoying issue.
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Thanks for your answer.
I had also thought and tried the solution you proposed.
But it doesn't satisfy me.
I hope the app developers read this post: the only real solution is to allow to set other actions in addition to "Home" and "Away", freely creating the various combinations.
Or create "Home" and "Away" actions for each group of cameras, since the app allows to create groups.
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Hi,
If you only want to disable the privacy mode on all your cameras when traveling, you can try the Smart Action > Automation/Shortcut feature. For example, add a schedule to turn on/off all cameras' privacy mode via an Automation entry. Or add a Shortcut entry to turn on/off all cameras' privacy mode. Below are the detailed instructions.
How to create Smart Action (Automation or Shortcut) on the Tapo app
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Thanks for your answer, but I don't want turn off my cameras or enter in privacy mode, but only activate or deactivate the notifications, depending on the house where I live.
When I'm in my mountain house, I'd like to activate the notifications in cameras in city house.
Vice versa, when I'm in my city house, I'd like to activate the notifications in cameras in mountain house.
If possible, through one only command.
If this is now impossible, I'd like to send a request to your developers
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