Tapo’s new solar floodlight camera soaks up the sun to light up your yard at night

Tapo’s caller solar-powered pan-tilt camera adds a agleam floodlight. | Image: Tapo

TP-Link’s Tapo astute location marque announced a caller solar-powered outdoor information camera with pan-tilt capabilities, 2K video recording, and an 800-lumen LED floodlight. Tapo says the C615F tin run for arsenic agelong arsenic 24 hours with conscionable 45 minutes of sunlight, and it’s present disposable done Tapo’s online store and Amazon for $89.99 for a constricted time, oregon $99.99 regularly. 

The marque debuted a mates of different solar-powered 4K information cameras astatine CES this year, including a $170 enactment with pan-tilt and 24/7 signaling capabilities, but the caller C615F is 1 of the company’s astir susceptible offerings priced nether $100.

On artillery beingness alone, Tapo says the C615F tin perchance run for up to 140 days, but that volition alteration based connected however often the camera, floodlight, and functions similar performing scheduled scans of your gait are used. Recordings tin beryllium stored locally connected a microSD paper up to 512GB successful size, oregon online with a subscription to the Tapo Care unreality service, which starts astatine $3.49 per period oregon $34.99 per year.

The space and brightness of the C615F’s floodlight tin beryllium adjusted during installation to illuminate circumstantial areas, and it tin beryllium turned connected manually oregon acceptable to travel connected automatically erstwhile triggered by motion. The camera offers much flexibility, rotating 360 degrees and tilting up to 130 degrees connected its ain and is susceptible of identifying and tracking people, vehicles, and pets arsenic portion of its modular functionality without further subscription fees.

Other features see a mic and talker for two-way communications, colour nighttime imaginativeness with infrared LEDs to amended the prime of its video successful low-light areas wherever the floodlight isn’t shining, and an IP65 particulate and waterproof standing truthful you don’t person to interest astir rainfall oregon snow.