TP-Link Solar Panel, Non-Stop Solar Power, up to 4.5W
TP-Link Solar Panel, Non-Stop Solar Power, up to 4.5W Charging Power, IP65 Weatherproof, 4m Charging Cable, 360° Adjustable Mounting Bracket, Works with Tapo Battery-powered cameras (Tapo A200)
Compatible with Tapo C425, Tapo C420, and Tapo C400, enabling your Tapo battery camera to protect you all year round. More products will be supported in the future.
Up to 4.5W* Charging Power, Non-Stop Power Supply
Made of premium monocrystalline silicon cells, Tapo A200 provides high-power(up to 4.5W*), which means only 30min of standard sunlight every day can keep Tapo battery cameras working around the clock.
360° Angle Adjustable for Sufficient Sunlight
Mount your solar panel on the wall or roof and adjust its angle flexibly to capture enough sunlight with an angle-adjustable bracket.
4m Charging Cable for Flexible Installation
No need to worry about the distance limit of your solar panel and camera. Just find the best position, place it there, and enjoy free solar energy.
Note: 30 min of sunlight time is based on standard environmental conditions (1000W/m2, 25℃, AM1.5) and specified working scenes (100 events triggered per day).Actual required time of sunlight may vary.
IP65 Weatherproof
Offers reliable performance and keeps your battery cameras stay charged even in harsh environments with rain and dust.
Note:The suitable temperature for Tapo A200 is -20℃~45 ℃. The working temperature range for battery charging should be maintained at 0℃~45℃.
Easy Management
| Dimensions: | 17.48 x 1.75 x 23.8 cm; 481.7 Grams |
| Model: | Tapo A200 |
| Manufacture: | TP-Link |
| Dimensions: | 17.48 x 1.75 x 23.8 cm; 481.7 Grams |
| Origin: | China |
Great product, simple to connect to the existing T420 camera that I was using and now saves the hassle of going up the ladders to change the battery. Great addition to the Tapo range.
I purchased this camera along with the hub for central video storage, but it’s seem these cameras are VERY EASY to REMOVE or stop recording for different reasons.
Video Quality: The video quality is good when the hub is close to the camera.
Battery Life: The battery life is about what I expected. It’s certainly not 180 days; more like 2-3 weeks depending on the positioning, number of detections/alerts, and use of live preview.
AI Motion Detection: The AI motion detection could use some improvement. It sometimes mistakes a cat for a person and occasionally fails to detect all motion or detects motion with a delay.
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HUB ISSUES: The major issue with the hub is that, if it loses power, all recordings will be missed. This raises the question of the advantage of having a wireless and cable-less camera with external video storage.
as well if connection between HUB and CAMERA is missing no recording and worst NO ALERT on the app
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App Improvement: It would be beneficial if the TAPO team could improve the mobile app with a function to monitor the connection between the TAPO Hub and the camera. An alert system for when there is no connection or the camera is unresponsive would be very helpful.
Overall, the camera has potential but needs some improvements in detection accuracy and system reliability.
Technical Support at moment is base of the copy and past script ,no really investigation on the issues
Bought to protect over back yard and cars on drive, didn’t have the experience or ability to wire into house electric so having battery powered was perfect and I paired them with solar panels to keep them going too, great quality and the app makes set up easy too
I bought this in December 23 and only recharged it on 9th June 24 and it was still at 12%. It didn’t take long to recharge either. Excellent colour picture, easy to install and set up. Easy to set up separate detection areas for motion, people and pets. This was useful as I have it overlooking my garden put didn’t want it to be set off by every car passing just over the fence. Easy to put into privacy mode which I found useful when I had washing out on the line, so to save battery as it was recording every movement.
Highly recommend
Easy to position for anyone who can use a drill. Easy setup. Needs good wifi signal to HUB. Detection adjustments difficult between options to reduce unwanted notifications, recordings and battery power use. Subscription service expensive like all but not required. Overall happy with system at its price.
For ease do use own screws as the ones included are a little flimsy.
My concern is that the penultimate point of fitting instructions is to slide waterproof gasket onto the USB connect on cable. No such gasket was provided. I presume I am not supposed to make a hole in the gasket on the battery side and reuse that.
So I have concerns over the longevity of this. I hope Tapi will get in touch with a solution.
Update 15-Feb
I found the gaskets! They were in the little plastic bag containing screws and plugs. As I was using my own stainless steel screws, this bag was put aside.
Apologies Tapo (-:
The solar panel works. We’ve had two very overcast days since it was installed, but even then it manages to get a little charging done.
Already have 24/7 CCTV but wanted a ring doorbell esk solution to trigger an alarm on human detection, my current CCTV does email me but when im asleep thats not going to cut it.
Charge battery first takes about 6 hours, screw to wall and screw camera on. Mine were position in such a way they wouldn’t detect anything other than people coming through a farm gate, you can trigger an alarm on the device to sound and also trigger the lights on the device. Quality is good and detection is set to Human only and works, dogs can run into garden fine, but when i run in there it gets me.
My only negative is they communicate directly with the H200 hub also in the package they wont work with the smaller H100 thats for doorbells and light sensors. But once the Cam is triggered it can be made to trigger the internal HUB also which makes a bellowing sound…so you can get out of bed and grab your rocket launcher
The problem is for me anyway my cameras are set to activate 11pm at night till 6 in the morning, so between these times they detect and sound their own external alarms, but there is no way to make the Hub do the same. Even though the cameras are not triggering their respective alarm thru the day they still trigger the internal which can be annoying. @TPLINK make the HUB work with schedules please 🙂
Hub can connect via ethernet or Wifi and needs to be in range of Cams, mines around 25ft from both and works fine.
This solar panel doesn’t have NIGHT VISION. Who created this feedback form? A toddler? This solar panel might work in California, where it is brilliant sunshine 360 days a year, but it’s not much good in England, where it is cloudy and/or raining 360 days a year. I still have to charge a spare battery in the house and go up and down the stepladder every day to swap out the battery, so I could have saved myself the money and hassle if I hadn’t bought the thing.
Down side is it is not quite as sensitive as I would like. At further distance there are occasions where it does not get triggered, so you may want to position closer.
Night vision is good, as are the lights and speaker.
Be aware this does not constantly record and it Pir triggered, not triggered by visual movement.
Camera needs to be installed out of reach as they are easy to detach and tamper with or run off with.
Purchased two for my Tapo cameras. Good size panel that easily adds more than 20-30% battery per day in UK summer when placed in direct sunlight. A bit challenging to get the plug into the back of the camera, but that’s more of a camera issue than the solar panel.
I contacted TP Link who responded very quickly and effectively. After a thorough investigation by the excellent TP Link Technical Support Team, the problem was successfully resolved.
The next camera pack was set up extremely quickly with no problems. I have to say that Tapo have got the user friendly set up procedure perfect. I have one camera at the front outside of the house and the second at the rear outside. The cameras are completely wireless and very easy to mount. I have had no problem with signal strength and camera connections. The quality of the colour video is extremely good. There are plenty of options for setting alarms and motion detection, including screening for people, pets or vehicles using the inbuilt AI algorithms. I have been playing with the cameras and settings a lot but the batteries seem to be holding up very well and after approximately 6 days they are still at 96%.
Notifications are sent promptly to my email address. Overall, these cameras are superb and very affordable.
The only downsides at the moment are: you cannot buy spare batteries for the cameras although I am advised by Tapo that these will be available for sale very shortly. Also, you cannot buy a separate individual camera. You can only buy them in the Twin Pack at the moment. Again, I am led to believe that you will be able to buy individual cameras soon. I am so pleased with the cameras that I am considering buying a second twin pack to locate in ‘blind spots’ around my house.
31/03/2023: Bought a second twin pack and these worked perfectly out of the box. They were set up in no time with one camera connected to my existing H200 Hub and the second camera connected to the new H200 Hub. Battery life is fantastic. Obviously to get the best battery life I have played with all the settings to optimise the performance for my needs versus battery life. I have always been sceptical about the battery life of such cameras but I have to say that these are brilliant. I have to say that I have found the video recording to the MicroSD cards that I have installed into the H200 Hubs is more than adequate making it unnecessary to subscribe to the Tapo Cloud recording option. As a result of my experience so far I have upgraded my Review to 5 Stars