I have two Tapo C310P2 Ver 2 cameras. They are both installed outside my home and both have SD cards in use but I have not enrolled in the Tapo Care Cloud service, not even for the free trail.  Both are working well and I can monitor them in the Tapo app on my Android phone and Android tablet.

My router is a TP-Link ER-605 and I have TP-Link Deco M4 Mesh Wi-Fi units acting as access points in various parts of my house.

Both cameras are connected by Wi-Fi to the Guest SSID provided by the Deco units. The Guest SSID is set to 2.4Ghz only.

My problem is that I cannot ping either of the cameras from my Windows 11 desktop computer, or any other computer or phone or tablet on my home network.  I supect that this is because of some setting on the ER-605 router or the Deco M4 access points.  I can ping both cameras successfully from the ER-605 router, using its own diagnostics.

Since I cannot ping the cameras from my desktop computer, I cannot use VLC to view the stream1 or stream2 from the cameras.

Can you please suggest what I should do so that I can view the stream1 or stream2 from the cameras using VLC.  I was able to do that successfully when I was testing the cameras indoors using an ethernet cable and before installing an SD card. However I believe that the C310 camera does support both a stream to VLC and an SD card simultaneously as long as Tapo Care is not used.  Now that the cameras are using Wi-Fi to communicate, it seems that something is blocking the IP stream which is why I cannot ping them.  The puzzling thing is that both cameras are communicating smoothly with the Tapo app.  I don't understand how that is working when I cannot ping the cameras from the same device.