Saves the current PTZ position to a preset

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

Deletes a preset

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

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
• If you have webhooks enabled, and your Home Assistant internal URL is reachable on HTTP, make sure camera can reach it.
• Make sure you have correct IP set for Home Assistant. Turn on Advanced Mode under /profile. Go to /config/network and under Network Adapter verify correct IP is shown for the device. If it is not correct, under Home Assistant URL uncheck Automatic next to Local Network and set it to http://<some IP address>:8123. DO NOT USE HTTPS.
• Certain camera firmwares have pullpoint broken, with only webhooks working. If you are not able to run webhooks because of above (https, or vlan setup), binary sensor will never show up.
• 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

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

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

Users reported full functionality with following Tapo Cameras:

• TC60
• TC70
• C100
• C110
• C200
• C210
• C225
• C310
• C320WS

The integration should work with any other non-battery Tapo Cameras.

Battery cameras controlled via HUB are working only for control:

• C420S2

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

Camera uses ONVIF standard to communicate motion events. This communication can work with 2 ways:

1. Pullpoint: Client opens connection to the camera and waits until the camera responds. Camera responds only when there is some event to communicate. After camera responds, client reopens the connection and waits again.
2. Webhook: Client tells the camera its URL to receive events at. When an event happens, camera communicates this to the URL client defined.

Webhooks are the preffered method of communication as they are faster and lighter. That being said;

• Webhooks require an HTTP only HA setup because Tapo cameras do not support HTTPS webhooks
• Webhooks require a proper base_url to be defined in HA, so that the URL communicated is correct (you can check URL sent by enabling debug logs for homeassistant.onvif)

Points above are automatically determined by this integration and if the HA does not meet the criteria, webhooks are disabled. That being said;

• There are camera (and/or firmwares) which freeze when both webhooks and pullpoint connection is created, which happens at the start to see if webhooks is supported at all so that communication can fallback back to pullpoint.
• There are camera firmwares which have pullpoint broken (1.3.6 C200) and only webhooks work

For webhooks to work, all the user needs to do is make sure he is using HA on HTTP and that the HA is available on the URL communicated.