Tapo Doorbell D230S1 - Activate camera only when doorbell is pressed?
Tapo Doorbell D230S1 - Activate camera only when doorbell is pressed?
I recently got a Tapo Doorbell D230S1 and am planning on using it as a doorbell/peephole camera for my apartment.
It's been set up and I'm fiddling with the settings and configurations but I've run into an issue.
In my country there are privacy laws regarding these kinds of cameras pointed toward areas where other people might walk, such as the hallway outside my apartment.
When I got the doorbell it looked like it would be able to work in accordance with these requirements but I've gotten stuck on one.
There are three main points:
1. The camera may not record anything. Which is fine, I've turned off recording no problem.
2. You can't point it toward any other apartment, basically limiting what you can see with it to what you're intending to see with it. That's fine, I can point it away and use the privacy zones for that.
3. The camera should only activate when someone rings the doorbell, and it should only remain active for a brief period of time, about 30 seconds.
This third point is the main issue I'm dealing with.
Is there a way to do this, to keep the camera deactivated by default and to activate it briefly when someone rings the doorbell?
There is the privacy mode but that seems to turn off everything and only the audio of the doorbell rings when you press it.
Worst case, I can just keep it on privacy mode and then manually turn it off when someone rings the doorbell but the issue there is that I don't seem to get any notifications with privacy mode active either.
