Hi from NY

[ClerkMaxwell]

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?

 

[wittaj]

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

 

[bigredfish]

Like most cheap cloud cameras it probably requires the app to communicate with the camera

 

[TonyR]

+1^^ to both the above posts.
No embedded webGUI AND you need the Tapo app to setup.

 

[ClerkMaxwell]

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.

What is the IP address of your LAN?

192.168.0.1

What is the IP address of your computer?

192.168.0.61

Thank you for this information! It's given me alot to think about.
Robert

 

[wittaj]

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.

 

[ClerkMaxwell]

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.

Okay, thanks...I should have checked cos I thought this is an onvif camera like so many Tapo cams.

Robert

 

[wittaj]

I think many of their wired cams are, wireless not so much.