If this needs to be a new thread please let me know:
Anyone been able to setup teslausb on a Pi Zero W to be accessed purely via SMB? ie. its not archiving footage to server, I just want to be able to view the footage on the Pi via SMB. There's no way I can park my car close enough to my home network to use the archive feature =(
I've managed to get it semi-working, I commented out all setup stuff for CIFS archiving, enabled Samba, enabled the Pi as an AP. I plug the Pi into the car, it shows up, after my first drive recent clips are recorded, I park the car and can connect my phone to the Pi's AP, I can mount the SMB share and view the recent footage.
Problems seem to start occurring once it goes into Sentry mode. As new Sentry events start to accumulate I can still connect to the Pi's AP and view the recent driving footage. However, the Sentry mode clips are not populating I can see the new folders being creating for the Sentry events but opening them shows no clips. After several hours even the previously working recent clips stop showing up. When this happens I'm still able to connect to the AP, mount the SMB share and see the folder structure and folders with new timestamps, its just showing all the folders as empty =(. At this point nothing I do will get the clips to show up over SMB again, doesn't matter if I use my Mac or phone to mount the share.
If I plug the Pi into my computer the CAM drive shows up and all the clips are intact and I can view both the recent and sentry events without issue. I can even plug it into my phone and it'll show up as an external drive that I can view. I have tried the buster image (teslausb-buster-20190922) and also the stable one (teslausb-20190615) both had the same issue (the stable one actually starting showing the 'slow usb' message and footage was getting corrupt, the buster one didn't).
I'm using a 64GB card and here is my setup config, if anyone's got any tips or pointers on how to get this working reliably that would be awesome!:
export camsize=32G
export musicsize=0%
# Wifi setup information. Note that Raspberry Pi Zero W only supports 2.4 GHz wifi
export SSID='WiFiNetwork'
export WIFIPASS='WiFiPassword'
# If doing a headless (i.e. automatic) setup
export HEADLESS_SETUP=true
# uncomment to enable a samba server that exports the recordings
export SAMBA_ENABLED=true
# uncomment to enable guest access to the samba server
export SAMBA_GUEST=true
# SSID, so you can access it while on the road.
export AP_SSID='teslausb'
# Change this! The setup script will not accept the default 'password'
# Also note that the wifi password must be at least 8 characters.
export AP_PASS='mypassword'
# IP address is optional. The AP will give its clients IP addresses in the
# x.x.x.100-150 range so make sure you don't put the AP's IP address in
# that range.
#export AP_IP='192.168.66.1'
# uncomment if you want to set the time zone to something other than the default 'BST'
# Can be an actual timezone, or "auto" to attempt automatic timezone detection
export timezone="auto"