Tapo C120 Window Mounted - How Does It Perform?

Today we will see how the Tapo C120 indoor/outdoor 2K camera performs in a window mount. Currently, there is no publicly available window mount for this camera so my son designed and 3D printed me one. We will see what the video quality looks like at night with its Starlight Sensor, with lights ON and also in Daytime.
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[@ronm6585]

Thank you. Tip your hat to your son for creating that 3D printed mount. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@SG-bb8pq]

Your son did a great job! 👏👏💪. The cam does pretty good on the window mount.

[@LifeHackster]

Thank you and thanks for watching!

[@markcollinson5478]

Another great review, and many thanks to your son for the mount.

[@anone3842]

I have all my Reolink bullet cams mounted inside looking out through windows - disadvantage - no night IR or spotlights - advantage - keeps them clean, warm, no rain, dirt, spiderwebs, no drilling CAT5 cables through solid concrete brick walls.

[@LtKernelPanic]

I was just looking to see if a window mount existed. Hopefully one will by spring when I redo my camera setup. Pretty happy with the C120. Oddly enough I've found that when its spotlights turn on the image is worse. Its starlight sensor could be a little better to match Wyze's but that won't be an issue when I get some new lighting installed next spring too.

[@syd6108]

Another excellent review

[@LifeHackster]

Thanks for watching!

[@IvyMike.]

Another fully comprehensive review, thanks man! I have 36 Tapo devices, but no cameras yet because thanks to you, my 7 cameras are covered by Reolink, but am tempted to add a Tapo camera or 2 for indoors use, to keep an eye on the pets.

[@LifeHackster]

You can definitely try them out. Thanks for watching!

[@D0TELL]

What are the 7 reolink cameras?

[@IvyMike.]

@@D0TELL 5 x RLC510A, 1x RLC-823A and 1x TrackMix PoE.

[@IvyMike.]

​@@D0TELL 4 x RLC-510A, 1x Trackmix, 1x RLC-823A and 1x RLC-842A, all PoE.

[@IvyMike.]

@@D0TELL 4x RLC-510A, 1x RLC-842A, 1x RLC-823A and 1x TrackMix PoE.

[@zuhairhlayel]

Great as usual.

[@YukonHawk1]

Excellent job by your son. 😊

[@LifeHackster]

Thank you! and thanks for watching!

[@dannylira11]

Love the video as always. And great job by your son on the mount. I currently use two Eufy window mounted cameras. I like getting rich notifications with no subscription. The other feature is like that not many mention is when you click on a notification with Eufy it plays the actual start of the event instead of going to live view. I prefer that. The only camera i would consider switching to is Tapo C325WB from your review a few months back, the night vision was way better than anything else. Any chance your son could make a window mount for that? 😁

[@LifeHackster]

I have to see if we can design a mount for it and Thanks for watching!

[@rogerchiu1967]

Good review, especially showing the licence plate. What about the day/night picture/video quality comparision among the tapo C120, Eufy and Wyze?

[@scott762mm]

Good on your son!!

[@LifeHackster]

Thank you!

[@gjordan8800]

Your son should start his own business I will take one of the tapo c120 window mount 😊

[@LifeHackster]

:) Thanks for watching!

[@soulrebelno1]

The white body of the camera creates a reflection through a window, especially if it's double-glazed. I use a larger piece of thick black foam from an exercise mat I cut up. You don't have to stick the foam to the window, you just cut a hole and the camera will hold it in place. Then, you just stick the camera to the window using the supplied mount. I used black gaffer tape to stop the white surround reflection. You can cover the whole front of the camera, as you can't use the spotlights or the infrared though a window, then you just leave the camera in daylight mode. It works great under street lighting, but obviously extra lighting would give even better results.

[@paper_camera]

Thank you for the info! I’m wondering about Tapo and TP-Link’s dedication to the brand. When I looked on Amazon, they only list a couple of their camera and the TP-Link Amazon homepage doesn’t really list cameras. Is this a line they are committed to?

[@ypark2877]

Have a few solar lights outside instead of spotlight use and c120 picks up great footage for price

[@a.n5414]

Hi nice review as always 🙂 is it possible to do this settings setup eg for the Eufy S350 so it can detect from inside a van to the outside through the windows if sb is walking by? Thank you a lot!

[@ilya.b]

Excelent review! Thank you. I bought this camera to point it at my back garden through the window, for now I just taped the metal base directly to the glass and attached the camera to it. The issue I have encountered now is that night boost mode you talk about on 01:31-01:50 somehow turns itself back on again after I turn it off and get back out of the setting menu. I tried setting it to indoor and ouitdoor modes, tried resetting the camera - it still does it. Any ideas why that might be? Thank you.

[@tny1078]

Hi i need you opinion which is the best camera for indoor but hanging in the window, thank you

[@lcssay]

The C120 is performing better than my Wyze Cam V3 especially in notification speed. Still testing it but person detect is what I bought it for, especially because it’s free. Let’s hope they don’t do what Wyze did in the early days and just remove the free service.

[@LifeHackster]

I know..hopefully they are not eventually going to charge for it.

[@Razor2048]

I wish they would offer full control over the noise reduction, as temporal noise reduction in low light will blur subjects, and result in less detail than just using a weaker noise reduction, or a profile based noise reduction that uses factory set noise reduction profiles based on noise samples from each ISO stage.

[@marygessler1677]

Are there any cameras thru glass I can use on a battery OR plugged into a battery pack? I’d like to install a camera thru glass on my door so running wires to an outlet is not a good option. Please help!!!

[@skaterdude14b]

1. Your son’s amazing. 2. At $11 more than Eufy C120, the Eufy seems to be the best bet. The $20 Tapo C110 would be the better comparison w/ the Eufy.

[@LifeHackster]

Thank you.

[@Ponkotsu67]

Tell your son he's "GOATED" it'll sure make him laugh 😂

[@LifeHackster]

I will :)

[@mr.boniato6402]

The C320WS doesn't seem to have the night boost option 😒

[@user-wp3pc9ky4l]

where can I buy 3d printed mount for this camera currently don't have 3d printer thanks

[@BM-dl2qz]

Thez should make an option to turn on siren manually

[@Marvin-fn7ks]

Hurricane glass is laminated. Will this work with that?

[@LifeHackster]

Yes.

[@davidgreen3953]

So mic camera is picking your motion sound up while you do distance test through the glass.?? If people would think out the box,they would just buy velco strips to put on camera and stick directly on glass..my window wyze v3 cant pic up sound through the glass...so either this mic in video is better then wyze or you used a secondary mic out side ....i can hear your clothes walking motion..how do you explain that .

[@LifeHackster]

I said in the video that I was using a wireless mic and not from the camera -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2e6lYCooauJprcsi=EXfyUmoRghk5Kxtv&t=159

[@davidgreen3953]

@@LifeHackster my bad I guess I miss that part...I use blink and wyze ..blink is garbage on motion pick ups ..I use sd card with wyze..I put a blink next to wyze so when blink gets a notification time stamp I can go on wyze and over lap footage to see why blink gave notification..wyze every 5 minutes comes in to play also... Your a great dude......nice to have come across your channel..I love analyzing videos..like cameras that follow a person..if there are 2 people I was told in another video of your it will follow the bigger person....maybe one of these days u can use 2 people and see who the camera will follow..

[@HiFiInsider]

does anyone make a window mount for Nest camera?

[@LifeHackster]

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[@HiFiInsider]

@@LifeHackster thank you!

[@penningtonsm]

Couldn’t you still use this camera outside under your eaves or gutter? As long as it’s protected from the rain? Or no?

[@yunapham1240]

after getting a notification, you can still open the SD card to see the playback video even without a subscription to the cloud.

[@travispeayarlal1485]

I dont know... paying 15 USD for the Wyze Cam OG makes this not comparable to Wyze IMO

[@LifeHackster]

If you don’t need smart notifications then I agree.