TP-Link Tapo

TP-LINK SYSTEMS INC.

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About this app

The Tapo app helps you set up the Tapo smart devices within minutes and puts everything you need at the tip of your fingers
• Control your smart device from anywhere.
• Control the device via voice with Google Home and Amazon Echo.
• Preset Away mode to make it seem like someone is home.
• Set a countdown timer to automatically turn the device on or off.
• Schedule when to turn the device on or off automatically at times.
• Invite families to manage the device together.

Ratings and reviews

Working great with my camera and smart plugs. however, I wish that there was a widget or automation to quickly change camera modes (home and away). Setting up shortcuts for cameras does not enable me to quickly toggle notification and alarms without opening the app and switching menus. Only being able to toggle Privacy Mode for cameras is not sufficient.

Notifications to device keeps stopping working. They show in the app history as being sent, but they are not sent to the device. This keeps happening randomly. I turn off and on the notifications permissions and eventually it works again. But it's annoying and it doesn't make sense. Update: same thing happening with the doorbell call feature, it's not calling my phone unless the app is open.

This is a great app with one huge drawback for camera users. I love the tapo cameras and they have great features. When you set the mode to away so that you can get motion alerts it works great. However the down side is when you switch it back to home mode it has lost all your individual camera settings for motion, notifications, etc. This makes this home/away feature useless for me as now I have to go into each camera and reset all those settings to what I want when I am home.