Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

Ip Camera: how long support actually lasted

Ranked by the firmware history we hold, longest first. Every span is measured between the first and last firmware we saw, so each is a lower bound — no vendor here publishes a launch date, and support that began before the first release we know of is support we cannot count.

Only products whose support has demonstrably ended appear. A device still receiving firmware has a span that is still growing, and ranking it against finished ones would put the best-supported hardware at the bottom for still being supported.

16 ranked

  1. ≥3 years TP-Link Tapo C420 v1 Gone quiet 14 releases · reasonably evidenced
  2. ≥3 years TP-Link Tapo C420 v1.6 Gone quiet 11 releases · reasonably evidenced
  3. ≥2 years TP-Link Tapo C425 v1 Gone quiet 16 releases · reasonably evidenced
  4. ≥2 years TP-Link Tapo C425 v1.6 Gone quiet 15 releases · reasonably evidenced
  5. ≥2 years TP-Link Tapo C320WS v1.6 Gone quiet 5 releases · reasonably evidenced
  6. ≥2 years TP-Link Tapo C402 v1.6 Gone quiet 8 releases · well evidenced
  7. ≥2 years TP-Link Tapo C100 v4.8 Gone quiet 5 releases · well evidenced
  8. ≥1 year TP-Link Tapo C403 v1.6 Gone quiet 5 releases · well evidenced
  9. ≥1 year TP-Link Tapo C402 v1.26 Gone quiet 4 releases · reasonably evidenced
  10. ≥12 months TP-Link Tapo C660 KIT v1.6 Gone quiet 8 releases · well evidenced
  11. ≥11 months TP-Link Tapo C246D v1.6 Gone quiet 7 releases · well evidenced
  12. ≥6 months TP-Link Tapo C710 v1.6 Gone quiet 4 releases · reasonably evidenced
  13. ≥5 months TP-Link VIGI NVR1008H-8MP v1 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  14. ≥3 months TP-Link VIGI NVR1004H-4P v1.6 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  15. ≥3 months TP-Link Tapo C400 v1 Gone quiet 4 releases · reasonably evidenced
  16. ≥2 months TP-Link Tapo C400 v1.6 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence

What this ranking leaves out

Of 129 products in this category, 16 could be ranked.

How these figures are computed.