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We've taken a field trip out of the studio and to the tech house where

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TP-Link has sponsored this video for us to look at the Tapo C675D

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kit. This is a camera system that has a

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solar panel, so you theoretically don't have to hook this up to your power at

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all. Right out of the top of the box, we have said solar panel and it's nice and

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compact. This will feed the onboard battery that's built into the camera

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unit itself. On the back of the solar panel, you can see it's got this USB-C

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

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could feed this thing power through just a standard USB-C power brick or even

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like a portable battery bank. We've also got a USB-C extension cable with what looks

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to be a nice weatherproof housing. Ooh,

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this is quite long. 6 ft.

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Yeah, 12 ft. This will be so that you can mount the solar panel a little bit

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away from where you have the actual camera installation. And as you can see

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here, the housing has these rubber seals,

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so it fits nice and snug together

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and you're not going to get any water in there. If you guys can hear some background noise, we've got some

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overhead traffic from planes. It is what it is. They've also included anchors and

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then screws to go in for your mounts and a zip tie. A single zip tie. This one is

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an A to C cable and it's super short. Before you start using the camera, they

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suggest that you charge it ahead of time for 6 hours and this is what this guy is

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for. Documentation, a secured by Tapo sticker, reference

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template stickers that you can use to help mounting go a little bit smoother,

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and a quick start guide. Next, we have a mount for what looks to be the solar

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panel. Yeah. That guy will go [music] in

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something like that there. Nice and simple. And the camera itself, when I

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say camera, I should say two cameras. This is actually two 8-megapixel 4K

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cameras, and one of them is a fixed 169°

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field of view camera. >> [music] >> The other one can rotate around 360° and

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follow traffic of either people or

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animals, things that it can recognize with its onboard AI system. Looks like

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we have two little antennas on the side here as well that you can adjust for

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signal if you're having some issues. I'm just going to peel these guys off.

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I believe, yeah, there we go. So, when you're throwing your mounts up, you

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screw this directly onto the piece that you're going to mount to, then slide

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back together. Clicks in place. It's just that easy.

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While the top lens is a fixed wide-angle lens, the bottom one has telephoto

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[music] and can go just under 11x zoom. Looks

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like we have some LEDs on the front here, both for IR and for some white

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light, so you've got some built-in spotlights. On the back, [music] we have

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a couple of weatherproof covers here. One of them is for power, reset, and a

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microSD slot where you can record all of

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your video locally instead of having to send it anywhere in the cloud, and you

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don't need some sort of video storage device on the same network that the

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camera is. The other one is USB-C for your power. This is where your solar

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panel is going to plug into, or if you have some other power source, you could

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plug that into there as well. There is a built-in 10,000 mA hour battery, which

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is supposed to keep the device alive for up to 90 days. The solar panel should be

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able to charge it for a full day in 90

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minutes of sunlight, too, which means between the two, you really shouldn't

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have to power this thing other than hook up the solar panel and have the battery

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that's built-in kind of take up the rest of the slack. On the back, we have an

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opening for what looks to be the speaker. The device has two-way audio,

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so you can hear what's going on through the video feed itself, but you can also

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talk back. So, if you need to like [music] yell at some kids to get off

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your lawn, or whatever. Despite having the opening back here, it does have an

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IP65 [music] rating, so it's good to mount out in the elements. We've got a

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nice spot on the shed just over there that we're going to install it and take

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

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the panel to be south-facing in the northern hemisphere or north-facing in

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

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Not my attic.

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>> [music]

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[cheering] >> Oh, it's nice to have a lot of cable. It

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also means that you got lots to wrap up. Here you go. Now, we'll plug this guy

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in. I'm going to get our micro SD card installed, and then we can power it on

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and see what it looks like in the app. Power on. Camera on. Oh, it talks to you.

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Camera's on. We got a flashy red light. Let's go pair it. TP-Link is typically

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known for their networking hardware, such as switches, routers, Wi-Fi access

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points, but they've been branching out into smart cameras like the one that

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we've put up, robot vacuums, and other home automation to try and tie that all

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together. We've got the Tapo app, which you can use to control all of their Tapo

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devices. Inside the app here, we're going to try and add devices. Outdoor

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cameras. Looking for your device. Is it going to pick it up from this far away?

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Found it. Nice. Where have you placed this Tapo device? My only option is

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custom, so sure. Location name, shed.

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Choose an icon. The closest thing that we have to a shed

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is the dog house. We're going to pick the dog house.

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You've configured your Tapo device and it's ready for use. Sounds good. Get 30

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days free of unlimited cloud storage. So, they do have their own cloud storage

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that you can upload to, but it's not necessary. I have an option to start the

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free trial or I can just dismiss it. Auto update is enabled to keep your

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device up to date. That's actually kind of nice. One of the most common ways for

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attackers to get into devices is because of out-of-date firmware. So, it's nice

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to see that they prompt you for that auto update right away. So, what they're

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doing right now is they're showing an example of what their smart tracking can

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do. It's got on-board AI, so it can see

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when there is some sort of animal or a human being that's going to be crossing

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through its path. It picks it up with the fixed lens and then it uses the

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rotating head lens to go and track that target. Inside the app, I can see that

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the battery is full because I pre-charged this just in case. Holy

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

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Yeah, now I can see us on the screen.

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And we're even getting feedback from this.

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The microphone's really good on that. Like we're

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30 ft away, roughly. And I think right now it's actually honed in on Brad. This

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is my big moment. Yeah, it's pretty good.

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It caught that. It tracked you.

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Uh, it sees your head. It's tracking you super well.

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It's like the Terminator like it's locking on or something. So, I have the

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manual pan tilt control. Like I can go and

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move it all the way over to the side. This is me talking through the camera,

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through the two-way system. In the app, I have both of you of the

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fixed lens and the zoom lens. With the zoom lens, I can pinch and

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>> [music] >> zoom in to a subject.

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Seems to work okay.

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There's Sven's face.

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>> [laughter] >> So, this is me zooming in.

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It's tracking you. It's tracking me. Yep. How scary.

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Oh, it tried It tried to track you right behind the bush. That's terrifying.

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The camera is actually set up to capture snapshots on a configurable time period

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anywhere between 1 and 60 seconds, and then it uses its onboard AI to analyze

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what's going on in the frame and decide whether or not it's a good time to start

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

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solar charging data is in beta right now, so we can't test that on, but it's

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probably going to be a little while before we get anything on that. You can

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see that we started at 100% though, and

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right now we're sitting at 97%. I don't

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expect that it's going to be charging the battery all the way up all the time,

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so I wouldn't be too concerned about that. The price for the whole package is

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$199 US, which considering you get two

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cameras and a solar panel, it's not a bad deal. The one camera being able to

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move around independently is a really nice feature, and not having to worry

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about plugging it in to any existing power,

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that's really nice, too. If you're looking to upgrade your home security system, give it a look. Thank you guys

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for watching, and thank you TP-Link for letting us check out your new camera system. You guys also got to see a

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little bit of the Tech House backyard. Don't worry, we will get it in order.