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Using without internet connection
Using without internet connection
Tuesday - last edited Yesterday
Model: Tapo C410  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.0.21

I have configured and tested the camera, using a spare Asus wireless router. I'm setting this up for a friend who has no internet connection, and I have set it up using his Android phone. There's a 512Gb Sandisk Extreme Pro SD card installed in the camera

 

I thought that after removing the WAN feed (internet source), to simulate the router now being at his house, that the camera and Android phone would communicate with each other via the Asus router?

 

But this is not so!

 

Question - how do I need to setup the Asus router so he can still access the camera with the Tapo app on his phone? As an Access Point, or disabling DHCP, or what?

 

I'm familiar with setting up an Asus router for normal use, but I've spent a few days on this issue with no success.

 

Any ideas anyone?

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Wednesday - last edited Yesterday

  @Arfaroger Success in accessing the camera using the Tapo app with no internet!

 

Not mentioned anywhere that I could find, but the solution is to simply instruct the router to assign a static IP address to both the camera and your smartphone, instead of the normal dynamically assigned address.

 

In my case, when configuring the camera after a reset, my Asus router had the camera IP address 192.168.1.155 and my phone IP address 192.168.1.100.

 

With DHCP (dynamic addressing) these addresses are not "locked in", so the trick is to set these address to "Manual". 

 

So I do hope this is more helpful than the advice I, and many others it seems, have received thus far from Tapo!

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Re:Using without internet connection
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  @Arfaroger 

 

Local management requires the phone to connect to the same WiFi as the camera. If the phone connects to other WiFi or using cellular data, it is not in the same network as the camera, so it won't see the camera online in this case.

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Wednesday - last edited Yesterday

  @Arfaroger Success in accessing the camera using the Tapo app with no internet!

 

Not mentioned anywhere that I could find, but the solution is to simply instruct the router to assign a static IP address to both the camera and your smartphone, instead of the normal dynamically assigned address.

 

In my case, when configuring the camera after a reset, my Asus router had the camera IP address 192.168.1.155 and my phone IP address 192.168.1.100.

 

With DHCP (dynamic addressing) these addresses are not "locked in", so the trick is to set these address to "Manual". 

 

So I do hope this is more helpful than the advice I, and many others it seems, have received thus far from Tapo!

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  @Arfaroger   

 

Thank you for your sharing! May I know prior to this operation, did you see the camera offline in the app, any error? Or not visible at all? 

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