No power? No problem! - Tapo C675D home security camera KIT

We've taken a field trip out of the studio and to the tech house where TPLink has sponsored this video for us

to look at the Tapo C675D kit. This is a camera system that has a

kit. This is a camera system that has a solar panel, so you theoretically don't have to hook this up to your power at all. Right out of the top of the box, we

all. Right out of the top of the box, we have said solar panel, and it's nice and compact. This will feed the onboard

compact. This will feed the onboard battery that's built into the camera unit itself. On the back of the solar

unit itself. On the back of the solar panel, you can see it's got this USBC connector. So, it's nothing crazy

connector. So, it's nothing crazy proprietary or anything like that. You

could feed this thing power through just a standard USBC power brick or even like a portable battery bank. We've also got a USBC extension cable with what looks

to be a nice weatherproof housing. Ooh,

this is quite long. Six feet. Yeah, 12

feet. This will be so that you can mount the solar panel a little bit aways from where you have the actual camera installation. And as you can see here,

installation. And as you can see here, the housing has these rubber seals so it fits nice and snug together and you're not going to get any water in there. If you

guys can hear some background noise, we've got some overhead traffic from planes. It is what it is. They've also

planes. It is what it is. They've also

included anchors and then screws to go in for your mounts and a zip tie, a single zip tie. This one is an A to C cable and it's super short. Before you

start using the camera, they suggest that you charge it ahead of time for 6 hours. And this is what this guy is for.

hours. And this is what this guy is for.

Documentation, a secured by Tapo sticker, reference template stickers that you can use to help mounting go a little bit smoother, and a quick start guide. Next, we have a

mount for what looks to be the solar panel. Yeah, that guy will go in

panel. Yeah, that guy will go in something like that there. Nice and

simple. And the camera itself, when I say camera, I should said two cameras.

This is actually two 8 megapixel 4K cameras. And one of them is a fixed 169°

cameras. And one of them is a fixed 169° fieldof view camera. The other one can rotate around 360 degrees and follow

traffic of either people or animals, things that it can recognize with its onboard AI system. Looks like we have two little antennas on the side here as well that you can adjust for signal if

you're having some issues. Just going to peel these guys off, I believe. Yeah, there we go. So when

I believe. Yeah, there we go. So when

you're throwing your mount up, you screw this directly onto the piece that you're going to mount to. Then slide back together. Clicks in place. It's just

together. Clicks in place. It's just

that easy. While the top lens is a fixed wide-angle lens, the bottom one has telephoto and can go just under 11x zoom. Looks like we have some LEDs on

zoom. Looks like we have some LEDs on the front here, both for IR and for some white light. So you've got some built-in

white light. So you've got some built-in spotlights. On the back, we have a

spotlights. On the back, we have a couple of weatherproof covers here. One

of them is for power reset and a micro SD slot where you can record all of your video locally instead of having to send it anywhere on the cloud. And you don't

need some sort of video storage device on the same network that the camera is.

The other one is USBC for your power.

This is where your solar panel is going to plug into. Or if you have some other power source, you could plug that into there as well. There is a built-in 10,000 MIA battery which is supposed to

keep the device alive for up to 90 days.

The solar panel should be able to charge it for a full day in 90 minutes of sunlight, too. Which means between the

sunlight, too. Which means between the two, you really shouldn't have to power this thing other than hook up the solar panel and have the battery that's built in kind of take up the rest of the

slack. On the back, we have an opening

slack. On the back, we have an opening for what looks to be the speaker. The

device has two-way audio, so you can hear what's going on through the video feed itself, but you can also talk back.

So, if you need to like yell at some kids to get off your lawn or whatever, despite having the opening back here, it does have an IP65 rating, so it's good to mount out in the elements. We've got

a nice spot on the shed just over there that we're going to install it and take a look. We're going to mount the solar

a look. We're going to mount the solar panel first. It says that you want the

panel first. It says that you want the panel to be southacing in the northern hemisphere or north facing in the southern hemisphere. We're gonna throw

southern hemisphere. We're gonna throw in the mount for the solar panel real quick here.

Not magnetic.

Oh, it's nice to have a lot of cable. It

also means that you got lots to wrap up.

There you go. So, now we'll plug this guy in. I'm going to get our micro SD

guy in. I'm going to get our micro SD card installed and then we can power it on and see what it looks like in the app. Power on.

app. Power on.

Camera on.

Oh, it talks to you.

Camera's on. We got a flashy red light.

Let's go pair it. TPLink is typically known for their networking hardware such as switches, routers, Wi-Fi access points, but they've been branching out into smart cameras like the one that we've put up, robot vacuums, and other

home automation. To try and tie that all

home automation. To try and tie that all together, they've got the Tapo app, which you can use to control all of their Tapo devices. Inside the app here, we're going to try and add devices,

outdoor cameras, looking for your device. Is it going to pick it up from

device. Is it going to pick it up from this far away? Found it. Nice. Where

have you placed this Tapo device? My

only option is custom, so sure.

Location, name, shed. Choose an icon.

The closest thing that we have to a shed is the dog house. We're going to pick the dog house. You've configured your Tapo device and it's ready for use.

Sounds good. Get 30 days free of unlimited cloud storage. So, they do have their own cloud storage that you can upload to, but it's not necessary. I

have an option to start the free trial or I can just dismiss it. Auto update is enabled to keep your device up to date.

That's actually kind of nice. One of the most common ways for attackers to get into devices is because of out-of-date firmware. So, it's nice to see that they

firmware. So, it's nice to see that they prompt you for that auto update right aways. So, what they're doing right now

aways. So, what they're doing right now is they're showing an example of what their smart tracking can do. It's got

onboard AI, so it can see when there is some sort of animal or a human being that's going to be crossing through its path. It picks it up with the fixed

path. It picks it up with the fixed lens, and then it uses the rotating head lens to go and track that target. Inside

the app, I can see that the battery is full because I pre-charged this just in case. Holy smokes, it's already picked

case. Holy smokes, it's already picked up. That person was detected. Oh, I can

up. That person was detected. Oh, I can hear us.

Oh, I can hear us.

Oh, yeah. No, I can see us on the screen. on

yeah. No, I can see us on the screen. on

the screen.

And we're even getting feedback from this.

The microphone's really good on that.

Like we're 30 ft away roughly. And I think right now it's actually honed in on Brad.

This is my big moment.

Yeah, that's pretty good.

Hey, caught that.

Damn.

It tracked you.

Me?

Uh, it sees your head.

It's tracking you super well.

It's like the Terminator like is locking on or something.

So, I have the manual pan tilt control.

Like I can go and move it all the way over to the side.

Yeah.

This is me talking through the camera through the two-way system. In the app, I have both a view of the fixed lens and the zoom lens. With the zoom lens, I can

pinch and zoom into a subject.

Seems to work. Okay.

There's Sven's face.

So, this is me zooming in.

It's tracking you.

Yep.

Tough stairs.

Oh, it tried it tried to track you right behind the bush.

The camera is actually set up to capture snapshots on a configurable time period anywhere between 1 and 60 seconds and then it uses its onboard AI to analyze what's going on in the frame and decide

whether or not it's a good time to start recording. It does have a bunch of

recording. It does have a bunch of battery stats that you can look at. The

solar charging data is in beta right now. So, we turned that on, but it's

now. So, we turned that on, but it's probably going to be a little while before we get anything on that. You can

see that we started at 100% though, and right now we're sitting at 97%. I don't

expect that it's going to be charging the battery all the way up all the time, so I wouldn't be too concerned about that. The price for the whole package is

that. The price for the whole package is $1.99 US, which considering you get two cameras and a solar panel, it's not a bad deal. The one camera being able to

bad deal. The one camera being able to move around independently is a really nice feature and not having to worry about plugging it into any existing power. That's really nice, too. If

power. That's really nice, too. If

you're looking to upgrade your home security system, give it a look. Thank

you guys for watching and thank you TPLink for letting us check out your new camera system. You guys also got to see

camera system. You guys also got to see a little bit of the tech house backyard.

Don't worry, we will get it in