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hairysteve
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USB Drive For Recording Sentry Mode, etc.
Trying to get an idea of the side of thumb drive I need. Does anyone know how much recording time is stored on a 256gb thumb drive before it overwrites? I want it for the dash cam capability and sentry mode.
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MrBadger
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Stop tooting at everyone and take your finger off the horn (or record button) and stop saving all the clips
Its plenty big enough unless you leave your car for weeks on end with sentry turned on.Each time the door opens and closes the horn beeps - does that cause it to record?Stop tooting at everyone and take your finger off the horn (or record button) and stop saving all the clips
MrBadger
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There is an option to save a clip if you honk the horn. Not sure if it’s enabled by default on new cars but yes, if your car has a fault that toots the horn when the door is opened then that may well trigger a save of a video clip that will ultimately fill up the media card.
Is it a USB drive or SD card and is it 128gb or 256gb
USB Drive For Recording Sentry Mode, etc.
Trying to get an idea of the side of thumb drive I need. Does anyone know how much recording time is stored on a 256gb thumb drive before it overwrites? I want it for the dash cam capability and sentry mode.
If only there was some sort of book that told people everything about their car…
But to answer the questions, 128GB USB should’ve come with the car in the glovebox, yes you can view live camera feeds on your phone but no recordings can be. Recordings need to be viewed in car or usb stick taken out and viewed on pc.
But to answer the questions, 128GB USB should’ve come with the car in the glovebox, yes you can view live camera feeds on your phone but no recordings can be. Recordings need to be viewed in car or usb stick taken out and viewed on pc.
Jason71
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No usb drive commonly available is really suited to this task long term anyway. The shear number of writes will kill it. Probably within a year or two. Do yourself a favour and replace with a sandisk Max Endurance MicroSD card. It is far better suited to the job and should give you 10 years of 24hour a day Sentry mode in theory.
M1tch
2021 M3P with EAP
It doesn’t save a clip when you open / close the doors. That beep is just letting you know it’s locked / unlocked.
New to Tesla, I've just ordered a Max Endurance card as I too, received the memory full message.
Question: I have recording set to Auto and Honk - Does this mean its always recording when driving (due to auto) and to mark an individual incident, I have to honk? The status is always showing 'Recording' in the settings - thanks.
Question: I have recording set to Auto and Honk - Does this mean its always recording when driving (due to auto) and to mark an individual incident, I have to honk? The status is always showing 'Recording' in the settings - thanks.
Jason71
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pretty much. if you don't honk the clip will still be there but will be over witten in a matter of hours / days dependant on the size of your drive.
It could also be hard to find.
save/honk will move it to a separate directory and it will not be over written
That's great, thank you. I would prefer it to also record and for it to save clips if I Honk that are then easy to locate.
Does it also continue to always record when parked with Sentry Mode on?
Jason71
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good question.. when it saves a clip for sentry it starts a long time before the triggering event so clearly it is recording all the time or it is psychic. but does it long term store all of that somewhere or only the clips? I think only the clips but not sure since I have never looked.
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MrBadger
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Sounds like 42 has a fault to me if their horn beeps.
Don't confuse record and save which are two completely different things and is why the size of the media card is largely irrelevant.
If enabled, 'dashcam' is always recording, but it only retains the last 60 minutes, which is then effectively overwritten. For a clip to be saved, you need to physically save it, either with dashcam save clip button, or, if enabled, pressing the horn. A serious external event will also cause a clip to be saved - definition of serious external event seems to be if airbags are deployed.
So, unless you will save an event, you are using no media space other than to hold the rotating 60 minute recording. It use to be that a car not fully asleep would still be retaining only the last 60 minutes. Not sure if that has changed now, but it use to be that if you wanted to view that 60 minute clip, to stand a good chance of viewing it, you had to remove the media card from the car pretty much immediately otherwise the footage would be lost. If you save a clip, it is retained until deleted, so can fill the media drive.
Sentry is a little different. Sentry events are saved automatically but they are also deleted automatically after a period of time when the car thinks the media is getting full - lots of speculation as to what is 'full'. But sentry recordings will not fill the media up, but if you leave the car for an extended period of time, then you may find that old sentry events are deleted. That length of time is the only relevance that media card size has, other than a larger media drive will be overwritten less often which will extend the media life.
The only 'grey area' for me, is the transition between a drive and sentry, when a clip will be assigned to either dashcam or sentry - not bothered to investigate the definitive circumstances as to which one it will be assigned to. In the old days, we had to removed the media drive to view clips, so it was more of an issue as clips would end up in different media card folders - a bit less of an issue now with the in car viewer.
tl;dr - if you want to keep an drive event, you need to manually save it either by the dashcam button, horn (if enabled) or a serious event...
Ooh, and don't save an event too quickly after it has happened. It may missed the event. Likewise, saved clips are not contiguous, and there may be a few second gap every 60 seconds or so in the recording. Guaranteed to be the few seconds that something interested occurred...
In addition to the other replies here. My car came with a faulty USB stick. Diagnosed by removing it and sticking it into my laptop. Tesla sent me a new one (no response to email but did respond promptly when I raised a service request in the app). Problem solved all been working without issue since (dashcam and sentry).
MrBadger
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Yep. Although that wouldn't explain the beep when door the opens... Obviously that horn beep wouldn't trigger a dashcam save so some other fault (possibly the media card) or just lots of toots from 'get out of my way, coming through, I haven't found out how to slow down yet' ...
I'm not totally convinced that the car is beeping the horn when the door opens and closes ... this just might be 42 speak for "when the car locks" ... just throwing that out there as wild and unwarranted speculation ...
