5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent 4K solar camera

2026-01-31    -William S.

I’m extremely impressed with this Tapo MagCam 4K Solar camera. The 4K image quality is very sharp in both daytime and night conditions. Detection has been accurate for person/vehicle events, and notifications come through reliably without being overly annoying, even while on the basic free plan.Battery life has been excellent, and with the solar panel it stays topped up and feels truly set-and-forget once installed. Setup was straightforward, the app is easy to use.I also connected it to the H500 Home base and it works incredibly well.Overall, this is a high-quality outdoor camera with strong performance, great battery/solar charging, and clear video. Highly recommended and is worth the money!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent 4K solar camera

2026-01-08    -William S.

I’m extremely impressed with this Tapo MagCam 4K Solar camera. The 4K image quality is very sharp in both daytime and night conditions. Detection has been accurate for person/vehicle events, and notifications come through reliably without being overly annoying, even while on the basic free plan.Battery life has been excellent, and with the solar panel it stays topped up and feels truly set-and-forget once installed. Setup was straightforward, the app is easy to use.I also connected it to the H500 Home base and it works incredibly well.Overall, this is a high-quality outdoor camera with strong performance, great battery/solar charging, and clear video. Highly recommended and is worth the money!

5.0 out of 5 stars Wish I bought these before my other brand solution.

2026-01-28    -GC

Very easy to install and set up. The different zones made it easy to filter out unwanted alerts. The solar panel kept the battery charged even in a shady spot. Great price for never having to remove the camera and recharge the battery or run power to it like other home security solutions. Camera quality and sound quality are great. We don't use the cloud feature but did install SD cards and playback works great.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent camera

2026-02-16    -Pilar Rivera

This is a definitely best investment. Camera records very good. Quality of the picture is neat. It has a very good night vision. Wifi works perfectly fine with it. Is very easy to assemble. And it keeps charged by the sun. Battery life is good.

Good product

2026-02-24    -Paul

Good product. Solar keeps camera at 100% charge.Clear pictures and easy app to navigate.

Good value and pretty good images

2026-03-05    -Den

Excellent product that works effectively without a subscription. Battery life also very good. Good value.

4.0 out of 5 stars Camera is great.... Highly recommend. Support.... not so much.

2026-01-19    -Michael Chenard

Why did you pick this product vs others?:I really loved this camera so much I bought 2 of them and their doorbell for my house. The doorbell has been working flawlessly. The first camera IN installed with the solar panel worked fine until the first rain storm where it went offline and I could not get to it for a couple months as it monitors a vacation home. Once down there I was able to get the camera down, plug it in and after a couple chances it finally rebooted. Now the camera is is all fogged up and will not clear out. I reached out to Tapo support and after several AI generated emails from Tapo asking me about the solar panel I was able to get some traction with support where they told me I had to go through the RMA process of which they asked all the same questions that support did. I did put up my second camera in the same spot and it is working fine and I love the fact that it is solar powered. I would give the camera a higher review as I understand sometimes things break, but their support process was very painful to work with. Would I recommend this camera to everyone? Yes I would and I may buy more of them for my main house as well as back yards as I love the solar option... but I am very weary of dealing with TapoSupport again.Ease of setup:The set up was very easy to do and their instructions make it seem like it is harder than it really is. Recording capability:you can either use their paid cloud storage or I bought Micro SD cards from Amazon and just use those to record and saveStorage capacity:The 512 microSD cards are great and cheaper than subscribing to their cloud storageView angle:I love the fact that I have it on top of my 12 foot shed and I can see clearly down the side of the house and a nice wide angle to the bakc of the house and driveways. I love the AI feature where i can exclude animals from detection as we have a lot of wildlife in the area, mainly deer, fox, and other small creatures... but can also set the detection zone of where I want it to alert to motion or people.

4.0 out of 5 stars Camera is great.... Highly recommend. Support.... not so much.

2026-01-25    -Michael Chenard

Why did you pick this product vs others?:I really loved this camera so much I bought 2 of them and their doorbell for my house. The doorbell has been working flawlessly. The first camera IN installed with the solar panel worked fine until the first rain storm where it went offline and I could not get to it for a couple months as it monitors a vacation home. Once down there I was able to get the camera down, plug it in and after a couple chances it finally rebooted. Now the camera is is all fogged up and will not clear out. I reached out to Tapo support and after several AI generated emails from Tapo asking me about the solar panel I was able to get some traction with support where they told me I had to go through the RMA process of which they asked all the same questions that support did. I did put up my second camera in the same spot and it is working fine and I love the fact that it is solar powered. I would give the camera a higher review as I understand sometimes things break, but their support process was very painful to work with. Would I recommend this camera to everyone? Yes I would and I may buy more of them for my main house as well as back yards as I love the solar option... but I am very weary of dealing with TapoSupport again.Ease of setup:The set up was very easy to do and their instructions make it seem like it is harder than it really is. Recording capability:you can either use their paid cloud storage or I bought Micro SD cards from Amazon and just use those to record and saveStorage capacity:The 512 microSD cards are great and cheaper than subscribing to their cloud storageView angle:I love the fact that I have it on top of my 12 foot shed and I can see clearly down the side of the house and a nice wide angle to the bakc of the house and driveways. I love the AI feature where i can exclude animals from detection as we have a lot of wildlife in the area, mainly deer, fox, and other small creatures... but can also set the detection zone of where I want it to alert to motion or people.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wish I bought these before my other brand solution.

2025-12-22    -GC

Very easy to install and set up. The different zones made it easy to filter out unwanted alerts. The solar panel kept the battery charged even in a shady spot. Great price for never having to remove the camera and recharge the battery or run power to it like other home security solutions. Camera quality and sound quality are great. We don't use the cloud feature but did install SD cards and playback works great.

Facile à installer

2026-01-03    -Richard

Fonctionne très bien facile à utiliser