HomeAssistant - Tapo: Cameras Control

Custom component - Tapo: Cameras Control - to add Tapo cameras into Home Assistant

Installation

Copy contents of custom_components/tapo_control/ to custom_components/tapo_control/ in your Home Assistant config folder.

Installation using HACS

HACS is a community store for Home Assistant. You can install HACS and then install Tapo: Camera Control from the HACS store.

Requirements

Network

Following target TCP (v)LAN ports must be open in firewall for the camera to access your Tapo Camera from Home Assistant:

443 - HTTPS for control of the camera (services)
554 - RTSP to fetch video stream from the camera
2020 - ONVIF to track detected movement via a binary sensor

These are not WAN ports, DO NOT OPEN WAN PORTS VIA PORT FORWARDING. You might need to open (v)lan ports only if you know what all of this means.

Usage

Add cameras via Integrations (search for Tapo) in Home Assistant UI. You can also simply click the button below if you have MyHomeAssistant redirects set up.

Cameras are also automatically discovered when they are (re)connected to WIFI.

To add multiple cameras, add integration multiple times.

See examples for lovelace cards.

Quick Start

This custom component creates:

Camera entities, one for HD and one for SD stream
Binary sensor for motion after the motion is detected for the first time
Light entity, if the camera supports a floodlight switch
Buttons for Calibrate, Format, Manual Alarm start & stop, Moving the camera, Reboot and syncing time
Switch entities for auto track, Flip setting, LED Indicator, Lens Distortion Correction and Privacy mode
Select entities for Automatic Alarm, Light Frequency, Motion Detection, Night Vision and Move to Preset
Number entity for Movement Angle
And finally 2 tapo_control.* services to control a camera

Use these services in following service calls.

tapo_control.save_preset

Saves the current PTZ position to a preset

name Required: Name of the preset. Cannot be empty or a number

tapo_control.delete_preset

Deletes a preset

preset Required: PTZ preset ID or a Name. See possible presets in entity attributes

Sound Detection

Integration is capable of analysing sound from camera microphone and expose noise detected via binary_sensor.

You need to enable this feature in integration options by checking "Enable sound threshold detection". After enabling it, you can also set any other options starting with [Sound Detection]. You will need to restart Home Asssistant after doing any changes.

For more information and troubleshooting see Home Assistant ffmpeg documentation on which this feature is based on.

Troubleshooting | FAQ

Binary sensor for motion doesn't show up or work

Motion sensor is added only after a motion is detected for the first time.

Make sure the camera has motion detection turned on
Make sure the camera has privacy mode turned off
Make sure the camera can see you and your movement
Try walking in front of the camera
If above didn't work, restart the camera and try again

Also make sure that:

binary sensor is not disabled via entity, check .storage/core.entity_registry for disabled entities, look for "disabled_by": "user" on platform "tapo_control". If it is, remove the whole entity or change to "disabled_by": null, and restart HASS.
binary sensor is enabled in tapo integration options
onvif port 2020 on camera is opened

Big delay in camera stream

This is a known issue of Home Assistant.

There is an ability to disable usage of Home Assistant Stream component for the camera, which might lower the delay very significantly at cost of higher CPU usage.

You can choose to disable stream component when adding the camera, or via Options when camera has already been added. This change requires a restart of Home Assistant.

There might be some disadvantages to doing this, like losing option to control playback and a higher CPU usage. Results depend on your hardware and future Home Assistant updates.

If you disable stream and your hardware is not up to the task, you will get artifacts, bigger delay and freezes.

If you wish, try it out and see what works best for you.

Another possibility is using WebRTC Camera by AlexxIT.

Example working configuration:

type: custom:webrtc-camera
entity: camera.bedroom_hd

No audio in camera stream

Supported audio codecs in Home Assistant are "aac", "ac3" and "mp3".

Tapo Cameras use PCM ALAW (alaw) which is not supported.

More details here.

You can get sound working using WebRTC Camera by AlexxIT.

Example working configuration:

type: custom:webrtc-camera
entity: camera.bedroom_hd

Supported models

Users reported full functionality with following Tapo Cameras:

TC60
TC70
C100
C110
C200
C210
C310
C320WS

The integration should work with any other Tapo Cameras.

If you had success with some other model, please report it via a new issue.

Have a comment or a suggestion?

Please open a new issue, or discuss on Home Assistant: Community Forum.

Join discussion on Discord.

Thank you

Dale Pavey from NCC Group for the initial research on the Tapo C200
likaci and his github repository for the research on the Mercury camera on which tapo is based
Tim Zhang for additional research for Mercury camera on his github repository
Gábor Szabados for doing research and gathering all the information above in Home Assistant Community forum
Davide Depau for additional research of the cameras and work on pytapo library

Disclaimer

This integration is using python module Pytapo which is an unofficial module for achieving interoperability with Tapo cameras.

Author is in no way affiliated with Tp-Link or Tapo.

All the api requests used within the pytapo library are available and published on the internet (examples linked above) and the pytapo module is purely just a wrapper around those https requests.

Author does not guarantee functionality of this integration and is not responsible for any damage.

All product names, trademarks and registered trademarks in this repository, are property of their respective owners.

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