C200 changes to static IP after being disabled (set to DHCP)

C200 changes to static IP after being disabled (set to DHCP)

C200 changes to static IP after being disabled (set to DHCP)
C200 changes to static IP after being disabled (set to DHCP)
Friday
Model: Tapo C200  
Hardware Version: V3
Firmware Version: 1.4.0

In the Tapo app on Android when I go into Device Settings > Advanced Settings > Network Settings it shows that Static IP configuration is active.  I then click to disable that and the camera gets an IP address by DHCP, which is what I want.

 

But I will come back to the exact same setting a while (some hours) later and find that the camera/app has changed back to static IP.  So I disable that again, and again the camera gets an address by DHCP again.  But again, this only lasts a few hours and I have to go disable the static IP setting again.  Rinse, repeat, over and over again, every few hours.

 

How can I make this thing DHCP and stay DHCP?

 

This only started happening after I upgraded to the 1.4.0 firmware.

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Re:C200 changes to static IP after being disabled (set to DHCP)
Friday

  @BrianJM I have seen this with my TC55 (C720) camera as well. It doesn't actually affect my camera's functionality or IP address, but perhaps that is because I have a static reservation for the camera in my DHCP controller. When the app shows the camera has a locally-assigned static IP (instead of showing DHCP like it should), that IP matches what I assigned in the DHCP controller, so the camera IP hasn't actually changed.

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Re:C200 changes to static IP after being disabled (set to DHCP)
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  @adfooz This is only not a problem for you because you have allocated a static IP address in your DHCP server for the camera.  People (i.e. everyone) should not have to do that and when you do not do that, a host (i.e. these cameras) that takes a DHCP assigned IP address and then just uses it as a static IP address without renewing the DHCP lease is going to break the network when it continues to use the address after it's lease has expired and the DHCP serve provides that same address to a new client.

 

This is absolutely broken behaviour and it is going to break networks.

 

How do we report this as a bug so that TP-Link fixes it and doesn't break everyone's network?

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Re:C200 changes to static IP after being disabled (set to DHCP)
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  @BrianJM I definitely agree it is a problem, I was just sharing my experience and providing a potential workaround for anyone who needs it.

 

To report this, you could try the Contact Technical Support form on TP-Link's website.

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