No response from TPLink? the cameras are basically useless as a security monitoring device. 

Opened my garage door, walked through to get to my mailbox outside, walked back in and the camera failed to capture anything until after I was already inside the house. The camera is set to the highest sensitivity and the activity zone is the entire picture. However it does successfully capture false positives in the middle of the night. It is completely unreliable. Can the firmware be rolled back?

Really strange behavior too. The camera triggers Shinobi NVR to record presumably over ONVIF about 5 minutes after I close my garage door, completely missing me opening the garage door, retrieving my mail, and closing the garage door. However on SD card it doesnt even register an event during that time period.

  Some interesting behavior I noticed as well. I recently started blocking the cameras from the internet since i record locally to NVR anyway. 

1. Time can go out of sync easily if the camera's power is interrupted. The cameras must be connected to the internet to sync time. This seems to also impact the triggering of motion events in Shinobi somehow if the time is out of sync.

2. With the internet disconnected from the camera, motion events are detected and recorded for up to ~2 minutes on SD Card even though constant motion is in front of the camera. 

3. With the internet connection restored, time syncs instantly and the motion events at least on SD card can exceed 2 minutes up till the cooldown limit is reached.

Seems like there's a hidden dependency on internet for these to fully function which is another concern.