Taking apart a Tapo C200 camera Teardown

It still works even without the any of the other stepper motors plugged in. I might turn it into a DIY trail camera or something.
Decent cameras I love them for the price they are great. You can get em from amazon for £30 amzn.to/3OOJP8i

[@neodeluxen]

Thank you for the video. I also opened mine up because pan was not working. But I noticed my motor was ok. So i cleaned everything up (old grease and dirt). After greasing everything up it worked perfectly again.

[@jammijares4857]

Can I see a video how did you do that bro?

[@redhulk7561]

Thank you. Video helped especially in opening the casing. Maybe it's obvious, but after releasing the 3 screws fixating the main board, the pin header prevents removing the board; simply push the objective with some force to the inside an the board will easily come off. The camera doesn't turn on/initialize with the IR-Board missing. If unsoldering the IR-LEDs is no option, 2! layers (those LEDs are really powerful) of duct tape sufficiently reduce the light; however, I'm not sure how long the LEDs survive this treatment due to hindered heat dissipation.

[@techwg]

Thanks this has helped me. I took the IR board out to stop reflections in the window making it useless at night. I have a separate IR lightsource. I have been able to cancel an order I made of the C100 which I planned to tape up the outside of the area where the LEDs are but now this C200 will work great now :) Thanks.

[@rattech]

Yeh that kinda also the same reason I took it apart. I want to use it through a window too. I had taped the ir (in fact the whole camera) but it still leaked IR through and gave bad reflections at night. So disconnecting it will be the next best thing. Just make sure the camera still works because I think it has some self checking (when the servos were disconnected the camera wouldn't boot) . If not then I might have to unsolder the ir leds and replace with a similar resistor.

[@David5467]

I went down a different path to overcome this problem. I set the camera not to switch to night mode and instead installed sensor lights outside.

[@ultrasparc]

Like and subscribed just because you zoomed into all the chip numbers ❤

[@AleksandrIvin]

Hi. Thank you for the video. I see two wires connected to lenses. Do they switch the Day/Night mode? Is it some mechanical filter?

[@David5467]

I don't think changing the mic will help with the sound quality, I had a look at the file properties and it only records sound at a bit rate of 6kbps and a audio sample rate of 8.000 khz. So the problem is a software problem. I would say they chose that setting to keep the file size down.

[@UncleF115]

is there a way to mod the software? or do you know any model have better sound quality?

[@David5467]

@@UncleF115 sorry I have not looked into other models, sound quality is not one of the specs listed when looking at cameras.

[@MariaTeresa-fb2ut]

got stains on the outer part of the lens. is it possible to replace it?

[@SalehMagrabi]

Thanks for the video

[@POKEMONHK]

Like👍 I am from hong Kong 🇭🇰

[@arvindgautam9407]

Red light is stable in my camera, green light is not coming and has gone into offline mode. If there is any solution, please tell.

[@suzettetaino2161]

Press reset button for 5 seconds.

[@arvindgautam9407]

@@suzettetaino2161 not solved my issue

[@UncleF115]

where is the microphone? sound quality is bad i want to pull it out

[@Alex-Sistema]

Mine stopped working after I updated the firmware, any tips?

[@stevend_86]

Mine too. Only the Red ir lights are on.

[@BloodMantra]

@@stevend_86 just happened to mine also, any fix? mine has red lights on

[@mauricioc.s.737]

Here I have The same problem after I updated The firmware

[@user-qn7wh1dd2w]

mine too. Any fix?

[@WelshLad.]

Could a WI-FI external antenna be added to this cam to extend the wireless range

[@rattech]

There are copper traces on the pcb labeled as ant1 (antenna 1) But I think it would be a bit more involved than just soldering a piece of wire on instead. They are designed to be certain lengths etc for certain radio waves. Beyond my knowledge. You could try it tho. Easily undo able if you are just tackin on a bit of copper wire to the existing pcb trace

[@Will-Ch]

hello, my Wi-Fi no longer detects, I already did everything, the network can't detect the device, could it be the Wi-Fi circuit damaged???

[@AngeloAlvarado267]

Cómo puedo cambiar el lente? Está rayado y sale borroso el vídeo

[@floh_mit_h]

Kann man keinen externen Alarm (Sirene) anschließen? Is it not possible to connect an external alarm (siren)?

[@maciejindyk7272]

Not showing is how to pull the spud from the camera Tapo c200

[@ivanrivera255]

How can I clean the lens if its dirty from the inside

[@theageofnewinventions7161]

How to got spray parts

[@rong9213]

Hello! Can this be repaired if the unit got damage due to plugging it directly to a 220v without its adaptor?

[@rattech]

Unlikely. How did that even happen?

[@rong9213]

@@rattech forgot the basics. No outlet in the place where I am placing the camera and hook it up with the main line bypassing the plug.

[@David5467]

hi. Thank you for the teardown. I was going to see if I could replace the mic as the sound recording is bad. But I see there is mic markings on the board but it does not look like there is a mic on the board. I am wondering if it just uses the speaker as a mic. Did you find the mic when you had it apart?

[@nienja8330]

I have the same question bro...is it possible to replace the speaker to the loud one...

[@rattech]

I think it could potentially be that small component labelled J2 at 4:46 Unless that is some sort of light sensor. Otherwise its probably using the speaker as the mic like you say

[@rattech]

Also at 3:02 it's marked as mic. But I see no components that look like mics. They are all tiny smd caps and resistors. I just had another look at it in person. You could test your speaker as a mic theory by poking the speaker with a toothpick gently to see if it records sounds of you poking it. They are very weak so do it very lightly.

[@David5467]

@@rattech Thanks I will try that. even the C210 has crap audio as well unfortunately

[@David5467]

@@rattech I tried tapping the speaker but the tapping was not very loud so the speaker does not seem the be the mic as well. There is a small hole just below the lens it is very loud when I tap there. I thought that was for the day/night sensor just looking at your video.

[@bachtung136]

Thank you❤

[@Viral_vittles]

In my tapo c200 no light is showing and not turning on what happens to my camera pls help me

[@rattech]

Check the power supply is working with multimeter.

[@Viral_vittles]

@@rattech what is multimeter?u mean that the adapter if it's working? Yes adapter is working we check the internet adapter by putting that adapter on camera port still camera light not showing we have tapoC200 idk what happend to it

[@Viral_vittles]

@@rattech ???any idea??

[@rattech]

@@Viral_vittles did the power supply from your Internet adapter match the same voltage (and polarity)? If you can prove it's getting power, then next thing is to take it apart and inspect it for bad connections or burnt components. It could be lots things, hard to diagnose just from a KZbin comment.

[@falzate75]

How did you remove the base? I don't see the screws

[@rattech]

There are none, 0:27 kind of shows its just got small clips on the inside. I think I just pulled it apart directly up and down away from each other

[@falzate75]

@@rattech Your answer is very useful. Thank you so much!

[@neodeluxen]

Thank you for the video. I also opened mine up because pan was not working. But I noticed my motor was ok. So i cleaned everything up (old grease and dirt). After greasing everything up it worked perfectly again.

[@johnsonmozayed5932]

Plz need help my camera when u plug it find out infrared light on wity out rotate nor appear on wifi and if press on reset it wont ... wot u think i av to do plzz

[@shiki333]

uhmmmm. the first 25 sec are offsync very bad, well, i used this info to dissasembly a tp link kasa cam,it is a similar camera and at least the downpart its the same.bye

[@thannguyen6405]

what is power ic? Thanks

[@rattech]

Can you not see it on the video? I'll have a look at a later date when I can.

[@rattech]

I think it's a 2v t3e which is a 3.45v voltage regulator

[@lulusangoyangonline9477]

great

[@kzmix8516]

Can I use the Ethernet connector?

[@rattech]

Im not sure. In theory yes. It only has 4 pins. A regular ethernet cable has 8 cores (4 pairs). But only 4 cores (2 pairs) are used on low speed connections (under 100mbps). So you'd have to work out which 4 wires to use from the 'ethernet' cable, and the work out which of those go to which 4 pins on the connector on the camera.

[@RB-us6tf]

Did you manage to use the ethernet connector?

[@nitinkumar-vf7wj]

It means these cameras can also be used with nvrs with small tinkering. I was looking for this purpose only. Now i can tell each of their wireless cameras also have ethernet wired support inside. Only u have to find which is power and which is data.

[@Europhile]

I hate these computer voiced videos. Odd long pauses too. Still useful though.

[@rattech]

Sorry I cant be bothered to record voice overs so used capcut to edit / do computer generated subtitles. I was taking apart my camera and thought I might as well record it for others.

[@meta5291]

​@@rattech Thank you. Very useful video.