Hi from NY

ClerkMaxwell

ClerkMaxwell

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Feb 3, 2025
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I'm an old noob and I can't figure out how to get into my ip cameras. I put the ip address of my tapo B6 solar cam into the chrome browser and after a while I get the message that it's taking too long to connect. I'm using an android tablet. Any suggestions?
 
Either it uses proprietary firmware and not accessible via a browser and only an app or it is on a different IP subnet than your system.

What is the IP address of the camera?

What is the IP address of your LAN?

What is the IP address of your computer?

You can list the private LAN IP addresses as it does not tell anyone anything - they are the same as everyone else.

The IP address of your service provider for your WAN is what you don't provide...Everything on the inside past the modem is fine to put out.

Everything on the inside, the local LAN will fall under these ranges and you are not telling anyone anything about how to hack your system because these ranges are reserved for the "home side" of the service so every home internally will be within this same range):

10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255
 
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Like most cheap cloud cameras it probably requires the app to communicate with the camera
 
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+1^^ to both the above posts.
No embedded webGUI AND you need the Tapo app to setup.
 
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wittaj said:
Either it uses proprietary firmware and not accessible via a browser and only an app or it is on a different IP subnet than your system.

What is the IP address of the camera?
192.168.1.10 default, but the camera's software changed it to 192.168.0.246 to match my lan's 192.168.0.1.
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What is the IP address of your LAN?

192.168.0.1


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What is the IP address of your computer?
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192.168.0.61

Thank you for this information! It's given me alot to think about.
Robert
 
Since the first 3 sets of numbers are the same, that lends to what others basically confirmed in that it is a proprietary system and only works in their app.
 
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wittaj said:
Since the first 3 sets of numbers are the same, that lends to what others basically confirmed in that it is a proprietary system and only works in their app.
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Okay, thanks...I should have checked cos I thought this is an onvif camera like so many Tapo cams.

Robert
 
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For your future shopping, not always the case, but most wireless and wifi cameras will be proprietary and app only.
 
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wittaj said:
For your future shopping, not always the case, but most wireless and wifi cameras will be proprietary and app only.
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I like SV3C as a dependable onvif , metal camera that's sufficient quality for the money, but I'm very much open to be educated.
 
wifi can be good for baby monitor or pets watching, for security purpose not too good, not very stable because of wifi.
 
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TonyR said:
@ClerkMaxwell and others , below is a list of TP-LINK Tapo cameras that can operate via ONVIF and stream RTSP to Blue Iris, VLC, etc. They need the Tapo app to initially setup but then can be independent of the app and/or cloud to stream directly. Some of these are wireless, as I have 2 non-critical duty Tapo C-110's streaming wirelessly to Blue Iris AND can also be viewed with ONVIF Device Manager (ODM). :cool:

How to view Tapo camera on PC/NAS/NVR through RTSP/Onvif Protocol​

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This is great...thank you! IS ODM available for Android?

On a slightly different topic, do you know if it's possible to take a recorded stream and do post motion detection?
 
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