Tapo 2K Wired Smart Video Doorbell - 180 Ultra-Wide Field of View, Person/Vehicle/Package Detection, 2-Way Audio, Color Night Vision, Subscription-Free Local Storage or Optional Cloud, D130

This is the way it should be! Setup is relatively easy and I appreciate the customization and settings. Connectivity is great, binds to Alexa as a ringer and phone notifications are fast and, most importantly, not behind a subscription! FOV of the camera could be a bit bigger but it’s no big deal. I appreciate the local storage option of your own SD card, allowing for more local user control. A lot of smart home stuff can be invasive, user data exploitive, or use deceptive monetary tricks to squeeze out your money - I’m very refreshed to find that this product is user focused without sacrificing much else. Pretty close to perfect, I recommend it.

I am a long time Ring camera user and have an extensive Ring home security system as well as front and side Ring wired video doorbells. My recent front door camera was the Ring Video Doorbell Pro model purchased in 2017. This works fine, except that the field of view is slightly smaller than I'd prefer, where I can't see if packages are sitting on the ground in front of the door. I had the same situation on my side door (at driveway), which I addressed a year ago by changing out the doorbell to a newer Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 (now called Ring Wired Doorbell Pro), which offers a wider field of view and fancier motion tracking (which I never use). I bought that doorbell camera during Prime days for "only" $150. I was planning on replacing my front door camera with the same model, however this year a Prime day deal popped up for the Tapo TP-Link Smart Video Doorbell Camera Wired D130 for a little over $40 so I thought, why not try it out and see what it can do? I have installed multiple TP-Link smart switches and they've worked well. I took off my old Ring doorbell camera and was easily able to install the Tapo D130. It comes with wedge mounting plates that let you optionally tip the camera slightly downward and toward the side if needed, which worked out perfectly for my installation. (Note: Ring charges extra for these wedge mounting plates). The Tapo D130 also comes with an electronic chime unit that can be plugged into any electrical outlet and plays a loud "ding-dong" sound when someone presses the video doorbell button. (with Ring, the Chime unit is not included and costs an additional $35). It was easy to set up the Tapo doorbell using their Android app on my phone. Like many of their TP-Link devices, it will initially act as a Wi-Fi site that you connect to with your phone to give the info needed for it to connect to your home Wi-Fi system. Once it's connected to your home Wi-Fi, you're good to go and can tweek any of the settings that you want. I've included pictures from my old Ring doorbell and this new Tapo D130 doorbell so you can see the great improvement in field of view. The image resolution is also great as is the night vision. Now for the best part. My previous Ring doorbell requires a subscription plan to be useable. The only way any Ring video can be recorded (after a free 30-day trial period) is through a subscription plan which starts at $50 per year for one camera ($100 per year for 2 or more cameras). This was not a big deal for me since I have numerous Ring cameras and was already subscribed. Also, with Ring doorbells, only detected events (motion, people, etc.) are recorded. 24/7 recording is not yet supported on video doorbells (although they say they plan to support it in the future). With the Tapo D130 video doorbell, there is a weatherproof slot for you to install a microSD card upon which you can record anything for free. There is no need to sign up for an annual plan to get a usable system. The Tapo app makes it easy to watch the doorbell videos, both live and also recorded. You can set it to record just detected events (person, pet, motion, package etc.) or you can record 24/7 (any detected events will be indicated on the timeline). I installed a Sandisk 256GB High Endurance microSD card (about $25) in my D130 and can record continuously 24/7 for almost two weeks before it fills up the card and starts recording over the oldest prior videos (loop recording). They recommend using a high endurance microSD card, specifically made for such use. The unit will accept up to a 512GB card if you want to keep well over 3 weeks' worth of continuous 24/7 recordings on hand. I'm not sure why you'd want to sign up for a storage subscription. They will only store event videos online (not continuous 24/7 recording). The only real benefit I see with a subscription is that they will include a snapshot of the event photo when they send an alert to your phone. No photo is sent if you don't subscribe, just the alert. They will also tell you what kind of event occurred to trigger the alert (person detection, pet, motion, etc.). Also, having a subscription enables you to access your video online through a web browser. Without a subscription, you need to use their phone app to access things. Speaking of the Tapo Android phone app, it is very nicely done. I've used it before for their smart switches and find it to be much easier to program smart automations compared to the Alexa routines. For instance, whenever the doorbell camera detects motion at night, I have it automatically turn on my porch light for 10 minutes (I use a TP-Link smart switch for the porch light). The live video feed from the Tapo D130 is accessible through my Alexa screen devices, which is nice. You can answer the door or see who is there either from your phone or your Alexa device. Bottom line: This Tapo TP-Link Smart Video Doorbell Camera Wired D130 is very nice and can match or surpass the high-end Ring Wired Doorbell Pro for less than 1/3 the price. I was really pleasantly surprised with this device. Highs: Great field of view with nice picture 24/7 recording of video Subscription plan not required to get a very usable system Lows: Boxier looking than the Ring doorbell (subjective)

Best camera for your house, being a doorbell camera, you get a front view of the person seeing their face and full frontal view. Also you can store all the data on an SD card in the doorbell camera itself no cloud storage services required, which saves you money. But theydo offer it, at a charge. Camera gives you two way voice and it will call you if it detects motion, it also has tags so I only have it detecting people only no cars no dogs no packages so I don't get any false notifications. My Wi-Fi is Mash Network so I put a node close to the front door inside my house so it has a great fast connection to the doorbell camera. That helps when you want to retrieve some video of motion that happened or in my case a person coming to the house. I also suggest selecting the tags for people detection only. As the camera is always on pointing out to the street and cars go by all the time you don't need to get notifications every time a car goes by or other things such as somebody writing a bicycle or anything else like that. When you watch the video as well it's high quality image you can always zoom into the video to see higher amounts of detail and closer up even though it's a fixed camera, he gives you the illusion like it was a camera moving, I would even buy this and use it inside my house or for my backyard, they do have a battery version as well of this doorbell camera. Also it does come with a chime for indoors as you wire it to your existing doorbell your existing doorbell will not work anymore as it's supplying power for this video doorbell camera and they give you a chime unit you can plug it into any receptacle in your house so somebody comes and pushes the doorbell on this video camera it'll ring the chime regardless of where it's located it just needs to be plugged into AC power on the wall. I highly recommend this product it's great quality, high quality video and free customer support is great 24/7 you just call tp-link. At the phone number they give you in the instructions in the Box. Also I want to mention that tp-link owns Tapo but all of their packaging is all paper-based I provided a picture of this the outer box and the inner box that holds all the components it's a brown paper based and recyclable. I think that's very environmentally responsible that's also why I would buy more of their products no plastic whatsoever.

Excellent battery life, haven’t had to charge yet after several months still 54%. Very clear and wide view

Muy buena cámara, funciona muy bien, recomendada 100% y se puede adaptar a un sistema de ingreso previamente colocado!

Wired this to a UK socket using a separately purchased transformer (just search doorbell adapter) in place of an existing similar device. Really easy to install, both physically and digitally and works seamlessly with the Tapo app and Alexa. Some really nice features are included without subscribing to Tapo care. Used the SD card from my original device and synced with my existing hub to act as a second chime so I could have a chime upstairs and one downstairs (just note, the one I bought came fitted with prongs for an overseas outlet so I needed a travel plug for it). Really like the colour night vision and the fact that you can manually trigger it too. The angle of the lens took some getting used to as it looks almost portrait to give the head to toe view from even 2 or 3 feet from the unit. Loved the addition of the line crossing feature and have already set an automation to turn the hall light on for a minute if a line crossing is triggered across either of the 2 lines I chose to set up. Also (it is a camera after all) the live view and playback quality are both excellent, crisp and clear whether in night vision, colour night vision or daytime mode. I paid a little over £70 for the device and a further £10 for the transformer to wire it to a standard UK outlet and at the price point I’d say it offers exceptional value for money. I have a multitude of other Tapo devices (hence the switch over) and I’m delighted with this device.

Honestly didn't expect much. I have had nest hello since 2019. Bought this on sale and don't regret it. Let's see how it withstands Canadian weather.... Pros: Good value No subscription fees Easy installation Great form factor not very bulky has all other options on market Great video quality, day and night time (colour) Fast notifications Ability to receive call and answer doorbell on cell phone, instead of opening app and clicking video feed and then microphone 2 way recording Easily connect to Tiny cam pro Ability to connect to smartthings (access motion trigger for automation) Ability to play live feed with voice command on Google home tablet. Ability to receive notifications on Google home products (Google mini and hubs) Comes with chime, different ringtones available Tamper notification You can adjust led colour around button and intensity through tap app, a nice touch Integration with home assistant Cons: All plastic, but well made. We will See how it will withstand extreme temperatures in Canadaon long run. Had it for 2 weeks on a mesh network, and wifi doesn't seem to like this. Signal is between -54 to 60 RSSI. Which is average all my other switches near doorbell or even ones 15 feet further in backyard has a better Wi-Fi reception than this doorbell I set LED light colour when it detects persone. I works for a few hours but then turn solid amber. Everything still works fine but I need to reboot doorbell for colour of led to come back. There is an automatic reboot function in the settings ..but it's pretty annoying. If you get it on sale it's worth it. To remove doorbell you can see pin hole on the top...better placement would be under the doorbell so it's not visible. When doorbell is pressed it will not open up directly on Google home hub. Google locked it down for every doorbell that isn't Google. You need to say voice command to show live feed, not a deal breaker. On Amazon show tablets there is a way to automate things so when video doorbell is pressed you can see live feed automatically.

Exceeded my expectations. I just wish the 3M tape provided with it was stronger. There is an option to drill it in place, but since I’ll be moving out soon, I chose not to. The tape came off, so I ended up tying the piece to my door and hanging it on a 3M hook that was already attached. Despite that, the product itself works great. All my cameras are from Tapo, and this fits perfectly with my setup.