Hello, any recommendations for outdoor cctv ? I'm looking at the Xiaomi CW 500 @ 190+, which seems really solid, anyone have experience using it ? Appreciate other recommendations too, budget around 200, must be meant for outdoor and can view different angles

Check out Tapo brand by TP Link on Shopee, Lazada.

must survey sd card also, or opt to subscribe cloud

Whatever you get, I advise to get something that can save to an cloud or NAS, or just mount it very high up.

There is not much point if someone can just whack it with a hockey stick and remove the SD card

tapo or eviz, but tapo has serve me without disappointing,

Sd card recommend have 128gb - 512 gb

go support local IT store and buy it , ALL IT Hypermarket , viewnet , go go go

Tapo is great, got solar.as well. Check it out at shopee

after years of wrestling with xiaomi, tapo is a godsend

This is Tapo TC82 with solar panel. Connected to H500 hub.

I use Tapo w/solar for my taman surveillance, clear and bo issues except for lighting. Need to reset after that. Got wireless and SD card.

I use Imilab for my outdoor. It's using same Mi ecosystsem app but supposed to be better than Mi.

So far using 5 years still working good except have to reboot it once in a while.

This post has been edited by magnor: Nov 11 2025, 06:20 AM

when you point a camera outwards from home
and the span of it's surveillance sometimes includes neighbour premise

consider spying or not?
some say yes

Or Add in a Network Video Recorder (NVR) to your setup.

Tapo under TP link is pretty affordable.
If got bajet lebih sikit, can use VIGI. Also under TP link, want to find their cameras can try Viewnet in lowyat plaza.

To be fair we have a whole setup with direct POE, so no lag when streaming CCTV view. EZviz punya interface not the best, though if you only plan on just one cam, then tapo will do.

My solution:

Tapo C410 CCTV + Tapo H500 hub

Without hub, u need to sub the cloud service, or else, the theft took/dmg the cctv then u hav no evidences captured

been using mi mwc13 for past 4yrs, no issue, batt still ok. for rm200 can try mi BW300 or AW300

Saw many of u recommend tapo by tplink, is the C530WS 128 fb @ around 200+ value for money and a decent outdoor cctv ?

Just make sure you buy an ORIGINAL high endurance MicroSD card from either Sandisk or other well known brand

Too many fake MicroSD card floating around, get it from Official Store

using it. good enough. am using cw300.. only thing u might wan to consider is the dual camera one. if it is necessary for ur purpose. one fixed camera and another one rotate

u using normal 2.5inch SATA HDD or ssd in the hub? Reliable ah? I think don't have CCTV hdd which is 2.5inch..

normal hdd