@Solla-topee Hi Tapo team,

I too was a happy user of the C200 to the point that I bought the C500. But I was also very disapointed to find out that I could not activate motion detection without receiving way too many notifications, unlike on the cheaper C200. Turning it off isn't an option for me, as I do need to record any types of motions even when they don't successfully come through as a human detection.

My use case : right now and as I have tested it, you could break into my home by opening the door, see the camera and walk away, and while the camera does detect motion and activates motion tracking, there is no recording of that event in the memory whatsoever. You're in for a nice surprise in the morning !

Could I please get an update on the timeframe of the development of that feature, if it has been taken into consideration at all ?

I'm seriously thinking of putting it back into the box and sending it back right away as this is just a deal breaker for me for this use case.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Thanks
Julien

 

  @argtr 

yes please add this option in the menu and differentiate in notifications by movement and notification by persons.

I would only like to receive notifications by movement of persons instead of also getting a lot of false positives by flying birds and walking cats. Please add this option for the C500 otherwise it is rather useless 

so I want only notifications by movement by persons and not receive an notification with all other movements

And more so, you need to leave the motion detection ON in order to use the motion tracking. And even if you didn't have to, the camera needs it in order to identify parts of a body, turn in that direction and confirm if it's actually a person or not.
So IMO the C5XX models are the ones that can particularly take advantage of their hardware using both detection types but without notifying on false positives.