C500

I have replaced with different tapo cam models and is the best thing i've ever done. They have great home assistant integrations, also RTSP for future installing frigate.

You should Turn on 3rd party integrations and pipe the rtsp feed to a local VMS. I run Object detections models like mobilenetssd and YOLOv8 on my Tapo cams with good results. I don’t think there’s a classification for fox but I have seen my cams tell between a Dog and Cat

Thanks for this. The Tapo cams have been fine indoors and I’ve only just recently put them in. I just don’t want the streams being handled and accessed by Tapo or anyone else. Had a convo with AI and it stated that if live stream and recordings are viewed and managed with the apple home app, then Ta

That’s a good question. Not sure how much AI the two C520WS and the C500 have. The C500 is and was quite dumb from the beginning. The firmware is really bad in my view and Tapo says I should buy a better camera. Frigate just made it smarter even the resolution is not enough so I might update anyways

What brands are you cameras? Home doesn't pull the video feed from my Tapo C500 (gray square with a spinning circle) but Gemini definitely does.

Right, that's why I don't use them. I've been using YI cams for over a decade and they have native windows app. Want to get away from them and switch to tapo/kasa to consolidate apps on the phone.