CCTV/Internet Cameras/Local Home Security

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Tapo C110: Amazon India → Fixed Indoor. Can be hung on two small nails without needing to drill holes.

Tapo C200: Amazon India → Movable but Indoors. Not really a better experience than the C110.

Tapo C320WS: Amazon India → Outdoor Camera with Bright LED lights. Best one so far I have used. Have been using two for quite some now.

Sandisk SD Cards: 64GB with first two cameras. 128GB with C320WS.

In General Smart Camera Review

Pros:

Neutral:

Cons:

  1. The biggest cons is two part:
    1. The online recording cloud feature is very very expensive. It's so expensive that you might as well setup a home server with a PC and still save money. It cost Rs.2350 per year per device. That's more than the device themselves which come with two year warranty.
    2. Since the online cloud recording is so expensive, you have to record on the device itself or setup a home server(which I have done).

Individual Camera Reviews

C110

Pros Neutral Cons
  1. Very easy to setup as drilling screws was not necessary, it's light and I just put in nails by myself and set it up.
  1. Speaker Volume is too low and when someone tries to make say something the other person can barely hear. C200 had a much better speaker than this.

C200

Pros Neutral Cons
1. The motion tracking with the camera is not really a useful feature as it keeps picking up moving objects and keeps tracking them. So at the end of the day we use it as a normal camera.

C320WS

Pros Neutral Cons

Setups

C110

C200

C320WS

Bugs and workarounds

@Archived/To Sort

Wondering if the AgentDVR plan is better than tapo Care plan. Oh! That requires a system to be already setup and if you already have a system set up you can record there on the system itself. It will mainly be for online viewing which I think there can be workarounds to monitor like using AnyDesk or something if required. Tapo feels better for small number of cameras right now: 

The basic plan of Tapo is Rs.2350 per device per year or about $27 per year. Compare that to AgentDVR Plan which is $85 per year. So with three cameras or more AgentDVR becomes cheaper since it has ...
You know what, all this sounds too expensive for me considering the cost of the device is hardly $15. A local system setup that records locally hidden away somewhere seems to be the best bet and for online viewing you can use the free plans of Tapo until they are free.

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