@Tony
No, I understood what you meant.
I actually love the KC200. I thinks its very high quality, I love the round design and the magnet mount. It is brilliant.
The problem is TP Link's vision for these camera's is as a clip based cloud camera ONLY. A very narrow vision. Which is fine, but there are a part of the customer base that want to use it for that very reason AS WELL as surveillance purposes. Whether it be as a baby monitor, I've heard some folks like to watch wildlife in their yards, and for me I put the camera on my business front entrance. I can also see the parking lot. If I am in my office doing paperwork, scheduling, etc I can watch and if we get busy I can go out and help my employees, etc.
This is all possible on my phone. As you said there is no timeout if using my phone. The problem is....I NEED MY PHONE TO BE A PHONE!!
No matter how, whether I voice cast it to chromecast with google assistant, or with alexa, it times out every 10 minutes. Eliminating it as being used for surveillance puposes. The only way to put it on a bigger screen is to screen cast it. But it uses the screen of the phone....and again I need my phone to be a phone!
I bought the camera cause it was advertised that it can be viewed live. Which isnt untrue. Its just implemented wrong. I agree with the time outs, they are needed cause some would turn it on and just leave it, but 10 minute increments is very very excessive. Other internet of thing devices are like every 2-4 hours. For instance, Roku sets there "shutoff" at 4 hours.
Also, even though TP-Link advertises Google assistant and Alexa compatibility and then shutting it off after 10 minutes with a time out to keep the cloud free from overload . But then saying "Oh there is no limit on your phone. Gobble up all the data and bandwith you want".
Isn't that contradictory? Isn't TP-Link just telling its customers that they really dont want you putting their camera's on a bigger screen. They really want it on a phone and ONLY on a phone? And anyone in their customer base that wants more then just a clip based cloud camera...to use it for surveillance purposes as well....to move on to a competitor?
A phone is fine to watch clips. Its too small of a screen for most surveillance purposes. And phones need to do other things. Like make calls. If the time out isnt being made longer or eliminated I wont be renewing my Kasa Care.