sentry mode

Hi guys, Someone crashed into our TM3 2020 from the back a couple of days ago, and Sentry did not capture it. The USB stick had plenty of space, everything was working, it recorded a lot of other stuff, but not the hit&run. The damage is minor (scratches on the paint), however, still expensive...

In early July my 2020 model 3 stopped recognizing other vehicles and traffic signals. As a result, FSD mode and cruise control have also stopped working. Sentry mode was disabled as well. I contacted Tesla for service and after some back and forth they said that the car should fix itself. It did...

Hi all I’m curious as to whether anyone else has noticed this. I got my FSD 3.0 upgrade a month ago here in Denmark, and since then, the number of sentry mode detected events has gone up... by almost 2 orders of magnitude. Where I might typically have had 0 or 1 detected events, I now have 70...

Why not...when vehicle is parked and sentry mode is active, have parking sensors activate short blast of horn if another vehicle gets within 6 inches of front or rear bumper helping to prevent dings to bumpers.

I may have missed it, but I have looked through the threads quite a bit to see if anyone else has gotten a new Tesla where the Dashcam didn't work from the get go. I have seen several people have issues with software updates or failed/corrupted USBs causing the issue, but they all had it working...

I have an ssd drive plugged in, with a FAT32 partition for TeslaCam, and an ext4 partition with a bunch of music. updated to 2020.24.6.9 today. tonight, I got in the car after a restaurant, and the car notified me there were 4 sentry mode incidents. when I tapped on the notice, though, it...

In version 2020.24.6.4 Dashcam and Sentry are not recording. It also did not work in the last version that I had that introduced the video viewer. I didn't write down that software version because I was "hoping" it would just start working again with the next upgrade, but it does not. In the...

I’m about to take delivery on my M3 and I want to get a SSD to use for Sentry Mode and dash cam recordings. But I’m worried about how the summer heat here in Arizona will affect the SSD performance. We can hit 120 during the summer and inside the car would obviously be hotter. Has anyone else...

What exactly are most people using for a USB these days? Are there certain manufacturers that tend to work better? I'm not looking for an SSD for the moment - just a larger USB stick if possible. What throughput threshold should I be looking at? I've recently been upgraded to AP3 but still using...

Hi All, I cannot get my 2017 MS to recognize my SSD or thumb drive to record any videos on sentry mode. I can get it to recognize it to play music only (separate test to just see if the drives work). FAT 32 format, subfolder TeslaCam, no icon pops up, no folders created by Tesla. I also tried...

Hello all-I’ve had my 3 for a couple months and have gone through several adapters, attachments, etc in the effort to get the sentry mode/dashcam recording to work. With the latest software update I’m excited to play clips right on the screen but have been unable to get anything to record. I...

My wife left our car (Model 3) with her phone for a short visit to kiosk and she did not remember that it would cause locking of the doors of the car and also activation of the Sentry mode. Our daughter with her four months old baby were waiting inside the car since they were soon continuing...

First post! It would have to be bad news, though. When I park at work, I'm normally 5-6 spaces away from anyone. That's worked out well until now. This time, I made a tactical error by not parking immediately by the curb island, leaving enough space for someone on both sides of me. That was...

Anyone else have a problem where every SentryCam video it saves is 10:49? Takes forever to go thru the video and the FF on the viewer isn't exactly the best where you can skip 30 seconds or such.

Hey guys, Having some issues with Sentry mode. I have a March 2020 build Model 3 Performance. Running 2020.12.5. I find my sentry mode is super, super sensitive. It actually goes off with nothing near it. Recently, I can see it going off from my security cameras at the house. I checked the...

So I have had some huge issues with Sentry mode. At first i thought it was down to the USB i had so i swapped it for the recommended one. But then it stopped recording at my home address even though there were no exclusions and bluetooth was off on my phone. I have tried everything...

Hi all— Is there a good, definitive way to check to see if Sentry Mode has stopped working? And why would it stop working? The red light is on to indicate Sentry Mode is working, but when I came to the car to knock it around a little bit without my phone or key card near me, the sentry mode...

Hi folks, A while back I bought a memory card to use for sentry mode/dashcam. After reading on here that the best thing to use is a high endurance MicroSD card with a USB adaptor I ordered a SanDisk High Endurance 100MBs Micro SDXC Card and put it in a USB adaptor. It didn't work, however I...

I'm new to Tesla, I got mine a couple weeks ago on the same day Gov. Inslee locked down Washington State. Any ways, I haven't been really able to drive it much but I did receive my first update to the new version 2020.8.3 2 days ago. I've read through the update notes from Tesla and other...

Due to the covid pandemic, I have been working from home for the past few weeks and have not needed to drive my Model 3 that much at all. I have 280 miles on the odometer (took deliver on 3/13) and currently at 60% battery charge. I leave sentry mode on at all times so the battery does drain...

Hey TMC Community! After my model 3 got keyed last year during a day of rain, I rushed to view the Sentry footage and saw over 350 events. With no way of isolating the actual incident, I set out to make an app that could classify humans using the new machine-learning packages within the iOS...

I had an amazing trip in my Tesla to Scotland and will speak about it later. However on the way back home my screen was struck by an object while I was overtaking 2 trucks. I caught the object in my peripheral vision it looked like a bolt or large screw. It was about head height of my partner...

So, tonight I was stocking up on my doomsday prepper supplies at Costco and a lady let a cart go that hit the side of my (formerly perfect) MR M3. It did leave a dent. Not a huge dent, but, the car was dent free before this and this will prob be a $500-$1000 repair. I caught the incident on...

Made a little video about our Tesla Service Center Experience! SO THANKFUL FOR TWO THINGS SPECIFICALLY: (1) Tesla roadside assistance (2) Sentry mode / dash cam Overally it was a great experience. Did you know Tesla will tow up to 50 miles for free? We were in and out of the service center...

Have owned the Roadie for about 1 month and wanted to share my review for prospective/current buyers. But first /rant on: With how innovative Tesla is, it's laughable they haven't already integrated similar through Tesla UI/touchscreen. Come on Tesla... is this on the horizon? Also, with all...

I am looking at a used MS or M3 and I have been reading about AP2 has Sentry mode, but it doesn't work? Can you help clear up if an AP2 MS has functional Sentry mode?

Car is a 2016 Model S with AP2 I have formated a Samsung Endurance pro 64GB micro sd to FAT32, Added the TeslaCam folder. Sentry mode activates and flashes the lights on my car. Adapter is Difini Micro SD card reader. The problem is when I turn off the red light in my car and then remove the...

I'm running a solution with automatic TeslaCam and Sentry Mode video processing, using Azure services for storage and batch processing! It also leverages the TeslaUSB project and this tesla_dashcam script, both available GitHub. The best thing is, after the videos are processed I get a...

I searched the forums regarding this and didn't see anyone mention it - do you know why Tesla doesn't use the B pillar cameras with Sentry Mode? It creates a pretty big blind spot on the front fenders since the front camera has a pretty narrow FOV. I'm confident (and hopeful) that Tesla is...

My wife is pushing back on my Raven X purchase until I'm done with a twelve day backpacking trip in June because she's worried I will have problems leaving it alone in a parking lot for twelve days. Her main concern is it running out of power. It's a parking lot that is "safe" in that there...

I wonder if we can get this to Elon's twitter feed! A great enhancement to sentry mode would to enable the car to push notifications to your phone when motion is detected similar to a ring doorbell. When you click the notification it then streams the video feed to your phone. Along with the new...

Hello, I had multiple (23) sentry false positive events last night. There was no alert on the phone. A neighbor informed me that the car lights were flashing multiple times last night. Looking at the footage, the recorded events were between 2.00a and 5.00a but I didn’t see anything suspicious...

I normally do not use Sentry Mode when at home in my assigned covered parking spot, but last night I had to park elsewhere and used Sentry Mode. This morning when I went to move my car, under version 2019.36.2.4, I lost a whopping 15 miles. Anyone else noticing an excessive drain when using...

Folks, I am sure there is some info on this already, but I cant seem to find one, but are there any good iOS or MacOS apps to watch Sentry Mode videos that are filtered by events? i.e. I dont want to see a car passing by my parked MS 10 feet away, rather someone looking into the car or banging...

I have a standard range model 3 on order here in the UK and I’m sorting a few things before it arrives ie mats USB hub SSD drive etc. It’s regards the SSD drive that I would like some advice. I plan to partition the drive to enable me to have my music stored and my dashcam footage. I know I...

SentryCam is great, but hard to use, especially to view recent "events" Until Tesla provides a way of viewing camera recording on the Tesla screen, we have to rely on 3rd party apps. Recently, there has been discussion about the vulnerability of thumb drives, as opposed to small memory...

After getting a Model 3 about a month ago I decided to make an app so I could view my Sentry Incidents and TeslaCam footage on my phone. It uses iOS 13's support for reading USB drives. You can download it here: ‎Dash View for Tesla Cars. You can just plug in your drive, and then view your...

I understand that you have to format a USB drive to use FAT32 to record Sentry Model video. FAT32 has a limitation of 4 GB per file. As I understand it, Sentry Mode videos are often bigger than 4GB. How does this work?

Hi, I received my Model 3 last week. I live in Oslo, Norway. I bought before car delivery a ScanDisk USB 3.0 reader and a ScanDisk Endurance Micro SD card 64GB. I formatted the SD card to FAT32 using a free third party software called "guiformat". I performed initially a quick format. I created...

Lots of conversation about MCU1 and the fact that many of the V10 features are simply not compatible. For me, the theater mode is not all that important. I can't see a lot of need to watch video on my screen. Perhaps in our 3, but I digress. My real concern here is that Tesla Theater will be...

A few days ago this message showed up: “Dashcam: USB drive is too slow to save-please use a drive with higher write speed” Then I tried to format the usb stick but it still didn’t work. The worked flawlessly for months until now. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hi folks, I have had my Tesla Model 3 for about a week now and I have begun to notice a few nuances with Dashcam and Sentry Mode. I have tried several USB sticks, finally settling on a 32 gb Sandisk model. I initially formatted the disk on my Mac to the recommended FAT-32 and placed the...

Received my 2019.32.11 update last night on my Model 3. Took the car this morning and pulled my card reader and microSD card after driving to see what the recorded rear camera view was like. I thought I had heard the rear camera was not the same quality as the other cameras around the perimeter...

Someone hit our Model 3 while parking and created some minor paint damage on the bumper. When I went back to the Sentry Mode recordings, it captured a Prius coming into the spot next to the car at an odd angle, nearly hitting the car. My assumption is that this same car did, in fact, hit our car...

First, I hope this post isn't against some rule. If it is, please let me know and I'll remove it. My husband and I have been working on an iOS app to view TeslaCam footage from any USB storage device. This makes use of the new capabilities in iOS 13. We've got something that pretty much...

I know this might be hard for an eccentric billionaire to grasp, but where I live, the type of people who would break into my car are not familiar with the work of Sir Stanley Kubrick. But they ARE familiar with a CCTV feed inside a liquor store. I wish Sentry could just display the video...

Hopefully an easy question.... When Sentry Mode is active, are the front two USB ports powered all the time or just when it needs to save an event?

Hi there, I'm trying to get the sentry mode feature working in my new Model 3. I have read all of the specs and followed everything to a T, and am still having issues. I have tried multiple thumb drives of varying sizes (32-200+) all formatted and reformatted on my Mac to FAT32, with a...

Hi community, This is my first post after getting my Model X earlier this spring and now I am in despair not knowing what to do... The car alarm of my 2018 Model X keeps going off all by itself without any warning in the app and no messages on the screen in the car. Worst thing is that it's...

Hi everyone, We had a pretty nasty experience with Sentry Mode in our Model S (HW2) today. My wife was in the car with the passenger door open, while I briefly went into a shop with the key. I would normally have left the key with her, but keeping a door open usually prevents the car from...