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This was on the Glacier Hills (eastbound) side PS.

Long shot that anyone will see this, but I think this handmade crocheted Harry Potter fell out of my kid's door this morning around 3am at the New Springfield supercharger. Let me know if you find it!

Is the Owings Mills service center not showing up as an option for scheduling service for anyone else? I had some work done there a couple of weeks ago that introduced a lot of new issues and now I can't schedule a follow up there. It's telling me that the closest SC is in Rockville (an hour...

Weird, not sure what the issue would be but my Pixel test device (3a on Android 11) still recognizes drives just fine. Are you guys on the Android 12 beta by any chance? The other common issue these days is that Android can't read exFAT and if you use the car to format your drive, it uses...

I had a report of that from 1 user by email. The app can't recognize the USB because the car formats it as exFAT, which Android devices cannot read. I don't know why the car wouldn't recognize the USB drive before doing its own formatting. Could it be because there wasn't a TeslaCam folder...

Seriously had to explain why this wouldn't work to my father-in-law about 5 times.

Sentry has been out for over a year at this point (15 months?). It took them this long to get a Sentry viewer out that is unusably slow and unreliable. If you try to scrub to roughly the time of the trigger event (~1 minute before the end of the recording) it just locks up. At least that's been...

My rear drive unit on my AWD also needed replacement after about 10K miles, though the car was still driveable when I took it in. Haven't had any issues since replacement, the replacement was free under warranty, and I got a Model X loaner while it was in service, so I was happy with the...

Totally off topic for a car discussion, but it's also important to keep cats inside to prevent them from killing wildlife. They are murder machines even if well fed. I grew up with an indoor/outdoor cat and we just thought her hunting was part of "nature". Makes me sad now that I'm an adult and...

This thread is totally off the rails, but just FYI the people working on Sentry and other infotainment bells and whistles are NOT the same people working on FSD. A company can do 2 things at once.

As the developer of one of the sentry mode viewer phone apps (Teslacam / Sentry reviewer for Android) I'll be interested in seeing how this stacks up against the feature set that the community has come up with on its own since Sentry's release. The release notes say the clips are "organized by...

Yeah, there are several file managers for Android that offer SMB support, but I don't know of any that exposes the SMB files to outside apps. For that, somebody needs to write an SMB Document Provider. With a document provider, after setting up the SMB share, you would be able to read and...

If it's a Samsung device, that's something I heard of a couple of months ago and it started happening to people after a Samsung update. It should act more reliably if you keep playback speed at 2X or below. I still have to get my hands on an affected device to see if I can figure out a...

I had the same issue actually. Luckily the coal-roller had been behind me a few minutes earlier so I got a license plate from the rear camera. Doesn't matter, though, since I was in upstate NY and I couldn't find anywhere to report the illegal exhaust system to the state. Anyway, I read a good...

The roof rack on the model 3 and a nice big Yakima or Thule roof box would probably handle your golf clubs no hassle. Total cost of rack and box is around $700. We have used ours for an inflatable kayak/paddles on a 1200 mile road trip as well as more local trips and, while the range is...

Sounds pretty suspect to me. I have not noticed that even in 20 degree weather.

I'm going to be honest here and say that yes, the frameless windows and hidden door handles suck in winter. I've never had a car where I had to think about whether the doors we going to open in the winter unless there had been an ice storm. That being said, the workarounds in this thread help...

Had a very interesting driver's-side mirror experience this weekend. I may have bumped the mirror in some way while loading a Christmas tree onto the roof rack. Driving back from the tree farm the mirror was out of whack and pressing "restore" didn't fix it so I manually adjusted it and saved...

That's unusual. Did you keep the camera enabled while you were in Sentry mode? If you turn off the dashcam by tapping the camera icon, Sentry events will still appear in your in-car display, but no camera footage will be recorded.

That's correct. Once you install a second media player, when you long-press a video it should ask you which media player to use and it will allow you to select a default there. If you already had two media players installed and chose one as your default in the past, Android makes it a little...

The long-press opens your device's media player and some media players can't handle the TeslaCam videos because they're encoded weird. Samsungs are the most common devices to have the problem. The fix is to install another media player, so I usually recommend VLC media player.

Thanks guys. The missing purchase thing is weird, but I have seen some oddness with the billing library I use - it's Google's latest and greatest, and therefore most buggy, so every once in a while I see a purchase get auto-refunded because something went wrong.

I know the feeling, but it makes sense to only review them when you notice something wrong with your car. Also, there are tools that make reviewing the videos much faster. Personally I wrote an Android app that I use pretty frequently, where I can review an event in just a few seconds...

An OTG adapter just adapts a full-size USB item (like the TeslaCam USB drive) to the USB port on your phone or tablet, whether that is micro-USB or USB-C. This is a USB-C OTG adapter for reference: https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Adapter-Transfer-Compatible-MacBook/dp/B078NKPGW9/ Google Pixel...

Yeah, I'm working (in limited free time) on integrating a video editing library that would allow the clips to be fused together. I haven't gotten it to the point yet where I can performance test it to see if fusing all ~10 videos for an event can be done fast enough to make it useful for...

Make sure the "use legacy player" option in the event list is not checked. The original media player that the app used to use doesn't work with videos made since 2019.24.4. I also had a hiccup after installing 28.3.1 where my car saved a bunch of tiny corrupt 1kb videos until I manually...

You can delete the contents of the drive easily while still in the car if you've got an Android app and the (free) Android app I wrote for this. Just plug the drive in with an OTG adapter (most higher-end phones come with one nowadays), pick the drive in the app, go to the list of events, and...

Just received the check for my MD excise tax credit on Saturday. Wasn't sure that I would receive it at all, so that's a nice surprise.

I use the one just named File Manager by ASUS (the computer chip manufacturer) or Files By Google (from Google itself). Both are free and have all the features I personally need. I'd be interested to hear what you got to almost work. I haven't put any work into explicitly supporting SMB - not...

I think you're just one step away from getting it to work - you want to pop into the TeslaCam folder (so that you're looking at the RecentClips and SavedClips folders) and then hit "select". That way you're selecting the root TeslaCam folder, and the app can read all of the RecentClips and...

If anyone was having trouble with videos in this app after upgrading their car to the 2019.24.4 firmware update, I just published an update last night that fixes the issue. Also, I finally figured out the issue with OnePlus devices - the ES File explorer app that seems to ship with those...

Has anybody with 2019.24.1 noticed any changes to the Sentry Mode recordings? I got a report that my Android app (Teslacam / Sentry Reviewer) was not playing videos for a user after the update, and the web viewer at sentrycam.appspot.com was also not working for them. Not sure if it's just...

I mailed in my excise tax rebate form in January (for a purchase in December 2018) and haven't gotten anything back from the MVA. Guessing I'm out of luck unless they pass another EV credit bill? Or maybe I was far enough up in line to get the tax credit but they're just slow in mailing them? In...

The way the app currently accesses the USB drive is via Android's high-level storage access system, which should be the safest way of doing it, but it seems to have many device-specific quirks. I would hope that it's not possible for the app to corrupt a drive, but since it is leaving the actual...

Interesting issue that I will definitely work to resolve. The long-press is intended to open the selected video in whatever external media player is on your device that can play an MP4 video. Does it open the media player and then the player says "file not found" or do you see "file not found"...

Try the 'Show Internal Storage' button within the file selector after pressing the 'Select Folder' button. I just had another OnePlus user report that that's what made the USB drive show up for them.

The people who seem to have the most trouble getting the app to work are OnePlus users, but I've had several people tell me that they got it working after a little troubleshooting. I don't own one to test with unfortunately. The OS is a branch of Android that requires OTG storage to be...

I had one S10 user report that he couldn't get the "Select USB Drive" method to work, but when he used the "Select Folder" button he was able to find the TeslaCam folder and work from there. Have you tried both methods? Also, don't want to give you the old tech-support runaround, but have you...

Yeah, that adapter should work. Definitely a weird issue that I haven't had reported to me before. Seeing that "charging" message is strange, but my Pixel 3a says the same thing if I actually go to the USB settings while my adapter is plugged in - it just doesn't show it as a notification. I...

I don't live in NY but it looks like no-fault only applies to injuries. I'm pretty sure Michigan is the only state dumb enough to have a No Fault law that applies to vehicle damage also. I'm still bitter about being rear-ended in MI while stopped at a yield sign, and now having to check the...

I don't remember where I found this (maybe this forum), but I liked this idea for a sunglass holder location. Easily printable for anybody with a 3D printer: Glasses Tray for Tesla Model 3 by TickTock

The app can currently access files anywhere that's visible to the regular Android file system, but that's the limit for now. I will have to look into how to pull files from a network share.

Yes, that's the problem on iOS. I do have a prototype and I'm investigating options, but I'm not too optimistic that I'll be able to get out a more generalized iOS sentry reviewer option that still provides a decent level of quality to all users.

Yeah, for non-premium I added a little message when you click a video that says "long-press to open fullscreen" or similar, but it's not obvious for premium users since clicking a video enlarges it rather than showing the message. I'll add something to clarify it in the next release. That's...

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Thanks guys! I had the same situation with the adapters, by the way. Bought a 2 pack and then realized that one had come with my phone. At least I can always find one when I need one now!

Great, thanks for letting me know! Those are good ideas, I'll add them to my backlog. They should all be possible.

PS, if anybody on here has gone through the purchase for premium mode: First, thank you! Second, can you let me know how the purchase experience was for you? I haven't done in-app purchases before so I'm a little nervous that somebody might pay for the feature and have the functionality fail to...

Good question! I always worry about that stuff when I use other Android apps so I am happy to explain: 100% of the network usage is for Firebase Analytics. That's a Google product that allows developers to see anonymized usage statistics for the app as well as crash data. Examples of the things...

Agreed that better organization would be nice. Currently everything is side-by-side, so the saved Sentry events are alongside the saved dashcam events with no way to tell the difference. There will be the ability to zoom a particular video and share a video (which will allow saving to Google...