Dear Forum,

I just got myself a tapo C210 from Amazon in Germany. It works nice together with the App, except for one important thing: Whenever I block the internet connection of the camera in my router, I loose connection to the camera with my smartphone and my tablet. Just now, when I cut the connection the image was still transmitted to my Android phone, but I could not move the camera with the App any more. When I close the app and restart it, it does not connect to the camera any more. They are all in the same Wifi. They are actually all in the same room, during testing phase. 

I saw several comments on the internet that using the camera without internet should be possible, and this is actually quite essential for me. I don't want to have a camera that potentially could be hacked into from outside or the company's server. I also do not want to have any device that does not work if my internet connection drops out. 

I see three options: Either those comments on the net were wrong. Or the new firmware that auto-installed directly after switching the camera on does not provide the function "local access without internet connection" any more. Or, there is a setting somewhere that I missed that would turn it on. I hope for the latter. Because else, I would have to send the camera back and get another one. 

Can somebody help?