Easy to install, good video quality day and night. Relatively cheap cloud subscription. Motion detection is barely useful, as even at the lowest sensitivity it sends notifications for moving leaves. However, AI person detection is very satisfactory and essential for outdoor use. So far, in the two months I've had it, I've noticed the following negatives:
1) It has disconnected at least 2 times and the red light turned on. (I should mention that it has good Wi-Fi coverage where it is placed in the house.) However, unlike other reviews I've read, I didn't need to unplug it from the socket as it came back online by itself after about 20-30 minutes. In any case, this is not acceptable.
2) At least 3 times, I couldn't access the data on the SD card from my phone, but it resolved itself after 5-10 minutes. (Usually closing and reopening the app helps.)
3) The camera stores locally on the SD card if you don't pay for cloud subscription, so if it gets destroyed, you lose access to the recorded data. Also, the clips where an event is detected are NOT automatically saved on your phone; you have to manually save them through the app. This means that if you see a thief at that moment, you have to save the video immediately, as they could easily remove the camera or just take the SD card.
4) To manage it and possibly record on a computer, it is necessary for the computer and the camera to be on the same network (same Wi-Fi). And this is done with third-party programs using the RTSP protocol. In other words, there is no tapo program for this purpose.
5) Finally, since the camera also records sound, I have noticed that when the microphone is set to the recommended sensitivity, there are some repetitive interferences, which do not block or cover other sounds, they are just annoying.
Since I don't have experience with other companies or more expensive IP cameras, I imagine that for 50 euros, the aforementioned issues are relatively acceptable. In any case, if someone wants to install more than 3 cameras, I believe that a closed circuit surveillance system is the way to go, as besides being much more reliable, a large number of IP cameras would significantly burden a home's local network.