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TP-Link Tapo

TP-Link Tapo Camera

Cameras · Security

Partly worksVerified plugin

1 report: 1 says it partly works.

Reported with 1 Homebridge plugin: Camera FFmpeg.

What people report

PluginStatusWhat they saidConnectsSource
Camera FFmpeg Verified
homebridge-camera-ffmpeg
Partly worksFailed on iPad until vcodec copy setting changed; H264 picky
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I ran into something similar last week. It was a Tapo camera. It would stream fine on the iPhone but not on the iPad. I was using the camera ffmpeg plug-in and the vcodec setting was set to “copy”. It turned out that iPads are more picky with the h264 format. I guess the camera was not sending perfect h264. I removed the vcodec setting in the config so it would transcode the video stream. Worked perfectly after that on the iPad. Maybe AppleTV has same pickiness? 🤷‍♂️

Excerpt saved from Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-22.

LocalReddit comment · 2022-05

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In ReReHome

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Identifiers

BrandTP-Link Tapo
CategoryCameras

Also reported as

  • Tapo camera