@Skeptik81 Thank you for your response with a solution, that requires additional expense and a route that I now no choice but to follow. it would be more prudent if Tapo outdoor camara came with a...

I have just purchased this outdoor Tapo C520WS camara. Unfortunatly there is a design flaw, as the power plug is too large to fit into an external IP66 socket as it doest allow the lid to close....