@Craven Yes, I have tried all the proposed solutions. Hard reset did work for a while but a week later the spotlight si 24/7 on and no way to close it unless I completly unplug it. The only difference is that the Tapo wifi is no longer active.

@Wayne-TP removing the SD card on an outdoor mounted camera is hardly practical!

It is clearly a firmware/software issue given factory resetting it fixes the issue temporarily. I have 5 of these cameras and 3 of them have the same issue, whilst factory resetting them resolves the issue temporarily it also means having to input all the settings again!

  @Wayne-TP 

Te issue happened yesterday to one of my cameras again. I came my home at night and the first thing that I saw was a camera with the Spotlight on, when I checked the app I notice that it had more than 5 hours without recording and i don't know why.

The cameras are supposed to be recording and they will notify me of any movement to my phone, so I could leave my home calmly, but how can I trust now if this problem happens more frequently.

In my case it was the case two, there was a solid orange led, and as always the factory reset solved the issue, but that implies to reset al the setting again (private zones, alarms, movement sensibility, night mode, recording schedule, etc) each time I need to do a factory reset, and now multiply that by my 4 cameras, it's annoying 

if I had known that I was going to do a factory reset weekly, I wouldn't have bought these cameras.

  @JuanGaVS same issue here, but expect poor customer service from TP-Link, their customer service is appalling 

  @Wayne-TP is there a proper solution or are TP-link expecting customers to remove the memory card? Abit pointless having a camera that doesn't record. Also not particularly helpful repeatedly resetting the camera.