Before anyone is convinced that tp-link is so much more, amazingly better than Wyze for RTSP, etc, Iāll let the community know my experienceā¦I do have several TP link devices, but only one of their cameras. But I can tell people that they are not necessarily something to brag about as definitely superior to Wyze, theyāre not.
A lot of hobbyists were singing their praises for a while because at Wyze prices they allowed the developer community to basically do a full local integration through their API with home assistant, all with third-party developers. Wyze did the same thing for a while but later had theirs restrict using sensors or cameras as a sensor etc. So several people switched to tp-link instead.
But then tp-link started messing with the integration recently.
Recent firmware updates blocked local access.
They forced cloud credentials even on devices that used to work locally, And contradicted the expectation of local polling.
Sometimes, updating home assistant core has caused complete breakage of the integration.
They then labeled home assistant as " unsecure" And said that all third party platforms like home assistant pose security risks because They havenāt undergone TP linkās, internal security reviews.
Their API is also still closed with no public API available for any of their devices (just like Wyze), forcing users into cloud control.
They have been having a lot of problems for users who try to use something other than 192.168.x.x for their network, including with VLAN changes, etc. People are finding that their devices stop working entirely because for some reason tp-link has hard coded assumptions or IP based keys.
Another critical point to make on TP link C120 having RTSP is that When I enable it, I lose a lot of functionality and features of the camera. Enabling rtsp automatically downgrades the resolution from 2K down two 1080p. This is a hard limit imposed by their firmware. Also, after firmware 1.3.1, many users reported choppy RTSP streams, with frame rates dropping to 1 frame every 2-4 seconds, especially on Synology Surveillance Station and Scrypted. Itās quite likely that most people didnāt even notice the downgrade. Their ONVIF support is unstable, buggy or broken in many setups. Some users can only get RTSP working, while ONVIF fails to authenticate or parse correctly. Also, when you turn on RTSP, you lose access to all of the edge AI. Detections. So you have to pick one or the other. Their rtsp is just basic like this Wyze test (No event based Triggers, two-way audio. AI detections, etc). There are certainly some workarounds, and currently they provide more access than Wyze, though hopefully this shows Wyze is working on changing all of that. 
And thatās not even getting into all of the recent issues the company has had about major security concerns that have even LED a lot of lawmakers to consider banning all tp-link routers entirely. There have also been other vulnerabilities found in a lot of their iot devices as well .Many have speculated a lot of the remote access vulnerabilities were intentionally designed by someone in the company since it is technically a fully chinese-owned company.
Anyway, as I said I do have a tp-link cam. I actually really like it. Great price, free edge AI detections, and RTSP at a disruptive price. But there are also some reasonable concerns about the direction and stance theyāve taken lately to remove local control support and force cloud polling (Especially when theyāre under fire for so many vulnerabilities to potentially intentionally remotely access our stuff) When itās already been clearly demonstrated to have everything work fine with local polling. Theyāre moving in the wrong direction latelyā¦ Thankfully Wyze is starting to make efforts in the opposite direction from where they were basically completely cloud dependent, to now making efforts to try to give us more local control. I agree that they still have a long way to go, but at least theyāre starting to head the right direction. 
Hopefully they lean more toward Reolinkās path (But with better prices) than toward TP-Linkās recent direction.
Iām just excited a lot of my older Wyze cameras are becoming more useful now! Itās definitely enough to prevent me from going on a black Friday spree looking for other RTSP options this month.
$115.00 on sale.
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