tapo-c210/how-to-connect-to-foss-NVR

How to connect to a NVR

Tested on: Tapo C210

Introduction

Capabilities

This camera is capable of transmitting its stream on the RTSP protocol on two channels: one at resolution 640x360 and another one at a higher quality, whose resolution is set in the settings (720p, 1080p, 2K). It supports the ONVIF standard.

It is also possible to access the video over HTTP, but it's undocumented, unofficial and needs to be improved.

Prerequisites

If you want to use the RTSP protocol (used also by the ONVIF), you need to create RTSP credentials. Using the official app we have to go to Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Camera account. We have to choose a username and a password

Connection

Simple RTSP stream:

High quality stream: rtsp://username:password@IP_Address:554/stream1

Low quality stream: rtsp://username:password@IP_Address:554/stream2

ONVIF

http://IP_Address:2020/onvif/device_service and specify username and password when asked.

Using ONVIF will allow the NVR to properly configure the PTZ controls, allowing the camera to pan and tilt.

HTTP (unofficial, needs more analysis)

See this resource but I did not test it. In this way we should be able to unlock a 2K video stream.

Test

You can test the RTSP stream on Linux by giving the following command: ffplay rtsp://<user>:<pass>@<IP_Address>:554/stream1