Hi everyone, I’m having an issue with my Tapo C325WB camera and the Tapo Control integration.
The camera detects a person correctly (I get a push notification in the Tapo app and the camera alarm beeps), but Home Assistant receives no events at all.
Here is what I tried:
- Enabled Person Detection
- Enabled Motion Detection
- Enabled Trigger alarm on person_detection
- In Developer Tools → Events, I subscribed to
tapo_control_event - Walked in front of the camera while the alarm was triggered
- Still no events appear (listener stays empty)
However, in the Tapo Control device page I can see the “Activity” log showing:
- “Detected motion”
- “Cleared”
- “Person Detection”
…but none of these appear as events in HA, so I cannot use them in automations.
My question: Does the Tapo C325WB actually expose person detection events through the local API? Or is this model limited to cloud-only AI events (motion works, but person/vehicle do not)?
If anyone has this camera working with person detection events in Home Assistant, please let me know what I’m missing.