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Does anyone use an Aftermarket Dashcam. If so, please post what you use. Any recommendation would be appreciated.
Why would you use aftermarket? The included Tesla one is great and all around your car
Yea but its still using the battery to power it unless you use a battery-operated one.... ours doesn't take that many miles off our car when using itThe included Tesla one is great for something you get essentially for free but has major drawbacks compared to aftermarket. It's low resolution, uses a ton of power and has no sound. With a higher resolution aftermarket you're much more likely to be able to read other cars' license plates and you can leave it on all the time without worrying about it draining your miles.
Yea but its still using the battery to power it unless you use a battery-operated one
ours doesn't take that many miles off our car when using it
I have a BlackVue DR750S-2CH dual camera setup on my Model 3 that I installed in early 2018, before Tesla added the software TeslaCam and Sentry Mode. My setup is nice and I decided to leave the BlackVue cams in my car. I figured it was nicer to have 2 sets of recordings front and back for redundancy, and the front camera has a wider field of view and captures the front of the Model 3 (the front cam that Tesla uses has a narrower field of view and doesn't capture the front of the car). I hooked up my BlackVue cams to power behind the map lights and they record 24/7, and have all these years. The only reason I use TeslaCam is that it records nice views of the side of my car, and the rear view is a little better from right above the license plate than the BlackVue's view at the rear window. Tesla's built-in viewer for the recordings is easier to use than the BlackVue app on my phone as well (not to mention the ability now to remote view the cameras). But like mentioned above, the BlackVue cameras use a lot less energy than Tesla's cameras because they are dedicated recording equipment meant for low power usage. Tesla's implementation is software and requires that all the car's computers be powered up.Does anyone use an Aftermarket Dashcam. If so, please post what you use. Any recommendation would be appreciated.
Yep, biggest problem with the factory dashcam. Makes sentry useless for those of us that park for long periods of time.True, but an aftermarket uses far, FAR less power compared to sentry mode. Around 5W vs. around 250W.
If you mean while you're actually driving the car then you're right. But I was thinking about when the car is parked and not being driven which is how a car spends the vast majority of its time. I've always thought it would be nice to always have sentry mode on even when in my own driveway but I don't because it drains around 25 miles per day. An aftermarket dashcam would only drain at most maybe 1 mile.
There is a 1 hour loop recording, and the honk transfers that to a different folder to save it. If you use a file recovery program like Recuva, it can pretty much recover everything in your drive (presuming you have a sufficiently large drive), though you have to sift through a lot of videos to find your exact one.The reason I asked about the aftermarket dashcam is that TeslaCam only records your last drive or if you honk, or hit the button or it detect something happen to you. For example, my wife told me she run over something few days ago and it hit the bottom of the car. When i looked the teslacam footage, nothing was recorded. I guess whatever she ran over didn't trigger it. That is why I thought having something with continuous recording would be better.
The old videos are "erased"/deleted, but a file recovery program like Recuva can recover the erased files, given they are just standard mp4 files which have a file signature that makes it easy to recover. Note the file names will be gone, so you will need a tool like MediaInfo to look at the metadata of the file to determine what time was from.Interesting. i have to give that a try. If I understand it correctly, even with 1hr loop recording the old videos are still there and not erased? I have a 1T SSD drive in my car...there should be lot of space.