TP-Link
Tapo C225 Pan/Tilt AI Indoor Camera
- Wi-Fi
Verified September 2026
The step-up indoor Tapo: 2K QHD with a starlight sensor, 360°/149° pan-tilt and AI motion tracking, still fully local over RTSP/ONVIF so Home Assistant never touches TP-Link's cloud — no Tapo Care subscription, ever. It's indoor-only, so don't buy it for a porch or garden; the weatherproof C120 covers that for £33. Against that fixed-lens C120 the extra ~£9 buys pan/tilt sweep of an entire room from one camera instead of two statics — worth it for an open-plan space, skippable if a single doorway is all you need to watch.
In Home Assistant
| Control | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Camera | Camera stream | Live local video feed |
| Motion | Binary sensor | Detects movement (firmware-dependent) |
| Pan/tilt | Button (up/down/left/right, via HACS) | Move the camera — not available in the native integration, needs a separate community add-on |
The native tplink integration adds a camera entity, but pan/tilt itself isn't exposed by it at all — that needs the separate community HACS "Tapo: Cameras Control" add-on, which adds directional button entities you can script into a scheduled patrol sweep between fixed presets, something a fixed-lens camera simply can't do. Live RTSP view also silently stays disabled until you create a separate "Camera Account" under Tapo App → Advanced Settings — skip that step and the entity adds with no working stream.
Specs
- power
- mains, 12V DC power adapter (100-240V input)
- storage
- microSD up to 512GB, optional Tapo Care cloud
- pan tilt
- 360° horizontal / 149° vertical, AI motion tracking at 120°/s
- placement
- indoor
- streaming
- RTSP + ONVIF (camera account required)
- dimensions
- 80 x 80 x 112mm
- resolution
- 2K QHD 4MP (2688x1520)
- night vision
- starlight sensor, colour night vision, IR up to 9m
- field of view
- 100° diagonal / 83° horizontal / 43° vertical
- app requirement
- Tapo app required (iOS 9+ / Android 4.3+)