Wi-fi home camera

Ajmason42

Tapo c200 or c210 and a sd card serves as our dog cams. Why save data to a cloud if you don’t need to 

cheap as chips from that well known rainforest store. 

monaymadlol

Hi -- didn't get around to this as it's been manic moving, again to another flat I've bought!

But I want to get something ordered in the next week.

The tapo option above saving to SD card - what is the burglar takes the camera and therefore evidence?

The Ring one at £50 is great - not the £3.49 per month subscription to record.

Any halfway house option? Sets up record once motion detected, saves to my phone or some hidden SD device? Or free cloud saving (don't really use or trust it for personal data..)

kipsterno1

Have you had a look at Eufy camera setup? No subscriptions and it allows the phone access you wanted.

monaymadlol

kipsterno1 said:

Have you had a look at Eufy camera setup? No subscriptions and it allows the phone access you wanted.

What's the advantage of eufy over tapo? Both seem to use cloud or SD card.

BUFF

monaymadlol said:

Hi -- didn't get around to this as it's been manic moving, again to another flat I've bought!

But I want to get something ordered in the next week.

The tapo option above saving to SD card - what is the burglar takes the camera and therefore evidence?

The Ring one at £50 is great - not the £3.49 per month subscription to record.

Any halfway house option? Sets up record once motion detected, saves to my phone or some hidden SD device? Or free cloud saving (don't really use or trust it for personal data..)

Amazon's other company, Blink, does cameras where footage can be recorded to an USB stick in the sync. module2  e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B088CZW8XC/

kipsterno1

monaymadlol said:

kipsterno1 said:

Have you had a look at Eufy camera setup? No subscriptions and it allows the phone access you wanted.

What's the advantage of eufy over tapo? Both seem to use cloud or SD card.

I can't comment on Tapo but have an Eufy cam setup and it has worked well for me. I have a homebase rather than cameras using SD cards.

moneysaver1978

I have a Blink - from Black Friday - which included video doorbell and outdoor cameras. They have recently rolled out indoor cameras which like the other Blink devices, do handle either cloud or usb (you need a sync module 2). The latter means you could have a USB drive locked somewhere else (as long as it has Wifi signal).

I was tempted by the Tapo cameras but didn't want the hassle of another app/subscription and I was already invested in Alexa so Blink was no brainer for me.

monaymadlol

Blink could be an option.

Still all seems a faff to set up USB, cloud or whatever for a single indoor apartment cam.

But guess you can never be too safe, nowadays 

monaymadlol

So that blink is looking good as I have Amazon subscriptions too for alexa. So I'd need camera, plus app plus the usb module thing? The module has a certain amount of data and is required to be plugged in all day to power, but this could use daily electricity, albeit very low? That would work to around £60-70 I think.

kev1744

ive got a cheap arenti camera. works great for me as it saves on sd card but also set up to send snapshots/short video clips to my phone if sound or motion detected. so if it got taken i would still have the footage on my phone.