Tapo cam main stream faulty

[pcp20us]

Hi all

I am testing a tapo C210 with rtsp. Stream2 works fine, for viewing, even thou its pixelated. Recording stream1 in agent DVR records at 128x780. I cannot view stream1 in Agent DVR, VLC and downloaded ONVIF management tool which fails on stream1. PLayed with all the settings in the tapo app. So i ve come to the conclusion that tapo is a little flakey whern it comes to rtsp feeds.... Unless someone tells me differnet.

My next camera to test after i return this tapo one is the Lorex LE841CAA model. Wondering if Lorex cams are better with rtsp feeds than tapo?

I am frustrated that a simple IP cam cannot access rtsp feeds as advertised by the company.... also discovered this after googling such issues.

Also dont like the fact that you need the tapo app to control the cam to then use it on a 3rd party rtsp setup.

So is Lorex any different/Better/worse...? If you want true RTSP feed should work independantly of there app with a gui interfaced to the camera.....
However i am relative new to this world of ip camera, so will listen to others that have been there done that.


Cheers

 

[TonyR]

I could be wrong, but it seems you are expecting the Tapo C-210, a $20 Wi-Fi only IP camera, to perform like it costs many more times than that and have many more features for the price. Granted it has no Ethernet interface and no embedded webGUI but it was created to serve a certain market and I think it has met that goal with success.

Even so, I have two Tapo C-110 cameras I use for pet monitoring and each is capable of streaming RTSP to Blue Iris or VLC using both stream 1 and stream 2, at the same time, continuously and reliably for hours and days on end with no observed interruptions or malfunctions of any kind. During that period the Wi-Fi would have to perform flawlessly as well in order for any video stream to play well also.

My Tapos will stream just as long and as well to ODM using stream 1. I'm unsure of the max number of simultaneous streams, as I have had 4 going at the same time: 3 to VLC and 1 to Blue Iris.

You stated "....you need the tapo app to control the cam to then use it on a 3rd party rtsp setup." Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are saying but once you have configured the Tapo camera's stream resolution you no longer need the app and you can close it; the camera streams RTSP directly to the video player over your LAN.

 

[pcp20us]

Ok


Here are shots from VLC

This is stream 2


Stream1 in VLC shows no stream info, which is odd.

Am using agent DVR and reinstalled the camera using the ip cam wizard which you can use to detect the camera feeds.

When tesing stream1 out of all the ones that are displayed, they fail, No problem with stream2... So look's like a tapo think to me..