Tapo cameras

I'm gonna go against the grain and say Tp-Link Tapo with the Tapo Hacs integration. Granted I only used Wyze and Tapos in my home auto(nuked wyze in favor of Tapo) , but latest Tapo 2k cams are pretty sweet, and the integration is well featured and maintained.

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Reolink is solid, and Tapo (lower quality but still better than wyze and same price) can be completely local. Although if you don't have a bit more budget (you don't need Axis lolol, that was a ridiculous recommendation), any hikvision, dahua, amcrest wifi cam would be great, ideally you want three streams which these options will have, including most reolinks. Tapo only has two. Just stay away from amcrest "smart home" line. The get scrypted. That will give you total control locally. You don't want to rely on an SD card, do it right. Scrypted will allow you to pull the cams into HomeKit …

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… HomeKit, worth it?. Hi everyone, I currently use Homebridge mainly to expose my devices to HomeKit. My setup includes around 10 Tuya-based lights, 4 Tapo cameras (with scripted and fully working in HomeKit), and 4 Tuya sensors (motion, temperature, etc.). Everything works reasonably well, but there are some limitations: * Light color control is not accurate in HomeKit (especially hue/saturation), it feels like the lights aren’t fully HomeKit-native. * Sensors are fine, but I’m aware that Tuya cloud-based setups are not the most reliable in the long term. * Lock door (tuya) not work in home …

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Run like hell from Wyze. There are many better options in the price range now. TP-Link's Tapo cams come to mind. They have RTSP native and don't require cloud access to operate (unlike Wyze).

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… comment: 1. Shelly - 0, click and play, perfect 2. Airthings - 3, had to create and API key not to bad 3. Brother printer - 0 - click and play, awesome 4. Tapo - 1, I think I needed a password and click on each device individually (I have tons of tapo devices), easy 5. Google mini speakers - 0, click and play 6. Hisense TV - 0, click and play 7. JBL Speaker bar - 0, click and play 8. Google TV Streamer - 1, need to walk to TV to get pairing code 9. Pixel phone companion app - 4 or 5, I don't know why this was such a pain to get the cloud access and remote access to work, but I signed up for …

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OP: *no cloud stuff* * First reply: *Tapo* I have two of these TP-Link/Tapo cams, and they still force you to use their app to configure them initially, and obviously that step won't work without giving all sorts of permissions to the app, as well as allowing internet acces for the cameras. Anyway, after configuring them and blocking them from the internet, you can use ONVIF Device Manager to modify a couple of settings without using the app. In my camera's firmware version at least.

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Literally anything that relies on a cloud server or non-native integration to work, in my case Tapo smart devices, for example.

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UK Users: What Smartplugs are we using in 2025?. For the last few years I have been using TP-Link Tapo smartplugs which worked relatively well. Some of them even had power monitoring, and with a bit of work you didn't need to register them in to the cloud either. However in the last few months I have had 2 die on me (and it looks like a 3rd might be on its way out too). And to top it off, the cloud connection is now mandatory, you can't bypass it in newer versions of firmware it seems. What plugs are people using in the UK these days? I have zigbee for most of my other devices, so either that …

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