My Tapo C100 camera detects motion fine and records short clips when triggered. The problem is whenever I manually turn on recording from the live view screen, it only records until I leave that screen for another part of the iOS app, or I switch to another app altogether. As soon as I do one of those 2 things, recording stops immediately, even if it'd only been recording for 5 seconds. Apparently the only way to record for more 10  seconds is to keep my phone on that screen and unlocked the entire time.

I have of course enabled the free trial of Tapo Care, but if all I will ever get is a half-dozen eight second clips, then there's no use for the cloud service—I could record on a single micro SD for a year in that case. As it is, I have local recording off because I didn't put an SD card in there, because I was gonna set up RTSP later and because I was signed up for the cloud service.

I just bought it. The firmware and software are all up to date. I've rebooted it a couple times as well.