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I thought I would be the only one having this issue.  I was not sure how many other people use it to monitor outside via a window.   

Tim 

  @Tburt I think it is more popular for that than you would think.

There is a couple of ways you can get it to stop going in directions you don't want and both I think 'hacks' and not proper solutions.

1. Turn off the option to rotate the camera so that it just looks in one position. It however defeats the purpose for these types of camera to track the target if you want to have a wider field of view. 
2. Put something behind the camera like cardboard or the like to block it from seeing anything past where you want it to. This however can look terrible and probably draws more attention to the camera that you would want. 
 

Tapo/TP-Link - you need to sort this out as it is a feature in other cameras and I am getting close to just cutting my loss and going elsewhere. I am sure that there will be quite a few others who have similar thoughts as well. Please look in to this as an option asap. 

Tburt wrote

  @sighallgone 

 

I thought I would be the only one having this issue.  I was not sure how many other people use it to monitor outside via a window.   

 

Tim 

  @sighallgone 

I agree, this needs a real solution from TP-Link.  It cannot be that diffecult to add to the camera.  It already has the motion routines all that is needed is few axtra lines of code for stopping.  As for cutting losses and looking elsewere I have a global version of the new Xiaomi Smart Camera C500 Pro 5MP arriving any day now.  It will be interesting to see how they handle this.   I love the Tapo line of cameras, but it seems TP Link makes some strange decisions that leaves me wondering why the would decide something is not needed.  They go 85% of the way, and then say "hey that's good enough" and call it a day.