The hub that brings Tapo's sub-1GHz sensors, buttons and battery cameras onto the network, with a built in chime and microSD recording. Home Assistant adopts the hub and its children through the TP-Link integration.
Works on integrations
Roles it can fill
Up to 64 sensors, buttons or switches plus 4 battery cameras or video doorbells, a chime with 19 ringtones up to 90dB, and a microSD slot taking up to 512GB for hub side recording. Treat Ethernet as a requirement here: plan the run, cable the hub to the router to commission it, and leave the cable in. TP-Link does support a wireless uplink, and their setup flow offers to move the hub onto 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and says the cable can then come out, but do not design around it: this hub is the single point of failure for every sensor, button and battery camera behind it, and it is not worth putting on Wi-Fi to save a cable pull. Wall powered with no battery backup, so put it on the same UPS as the network gear if the alarm function matters. The sub-1GHz radio is why the sensors run for years on coin cells instead of months, and it also means every one of them needs a compatible Tapo hub, either this H200 or the cheaper H100 where no camera or doorbell is in scope. Do not reach past it for the bigger H500: that hub is not on the integration's supported list yet, so the H200 is the one that works in Home Assistant today. Home Assistant sees the hub alarm and the child sensors through the tplink integration; hub attached camera streams are still on the integration's roadmap, so do not promise a live feed from the cameras that pair here.
