Hello,

I just purchased a 4 pack of the TC85 cameras from Bestbuy and went through the normal setup of the devices. Devices were added to the Tapo app (iOS) and then updated to the latest firmware. I went into the device details and added the RTSP option setting a normal username and password (No special characters) and saved the changes. The device has an IP on my network and the Tapo App works without issue. When I try to connect to the camera via Scrypted or VLC, the camera outright refuses to allow a connection. I went through the forums here and pulled all of the rtsp URL formats and tried them all (With my own IP & U:P), no connection could be made to any of the cameras. I then found the article about pinging the camera which I tried and I'm getting no reply. The cameras are connected to my main home network via Wi-Fi (Not a  different subnet or Vlan), cameras show an IP in the TAPO app and I can do a LAN scan and see the devices on the 2.4GHZ list. 

Thinking something may have gone wrong with the setup, I removed all of the cameras from the TAPO app and reset them, clearing out all stored info. I have set 2 of the cameras back up, both are shown in my TAPO app, both do not have the TAPO care and both do not have a micro SD card installed. Both cameras have IP's on my home Wi-Fi, I setup simple username and passwords (No special characters) for the RTSP authentication via the TAPO app and again both cameras work fine inside of the TAPO app and will display a video stream. I again went with the 3rd party connection attempt using the valid credentials I created but could not access the live stream via scypted or VLC. I scanned my LAN and confirmed the IP's matched what is shown under the device details for each camera and I then attempted to ping the cameras from the terminal but no reply was seen. I even switched my iPhone to the 2.4ghz network and ran a ping test using iNettools, no reply - request timed out.

With all of that said, here is where things don't make sense. I also have a TAPO C310 that is on my main Wi-Fi, connected into the TAPO app on my iPhone, same IP range and it works flawlessy both from the TAPO app and from 3rd party connections (Scypted and VLC). Pinging the TAPO C310 from terminal produces a reply without fail. My home router is nothing crazy and I don't run VLAN's or have port forwarding enabled. Just a simple setup as 95% of the devices in my home are all Wi-Fi based. My IP range has plenty of open IP's, I don't have MAC filtering on and I see no duplicate IP's in the router table.

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, I would be very appreciative!