Comment by gnabgib

Somewhat related:

The Tapo C200 research project https://drmnsamoliu.github.io/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37813013)

PyTapo: Python library for communication with Tapo Cameras https://github.com/JurajNyiri/pytapo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41267062)