My dash cam used to work fine, but recently the icon went away. I dig into the menu and found that it’s flagged as unavailable.
Sentry is still working.
Any ideas?
Sentry is still working.
Any ideas?
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Thanks. There used to be a reformat option in car but with one of the recent software pushes the menu changed and I can’t find it. Windows 10 won’t let me format a 256GB drive in the correct file system, so I’ll install another card and report back.
Thank you!
Thanks.
I’m not surprised that sentry doesn’t care, but am somewhat surprised they sentry will work when dashcam won’t, since the former records video
There used to be a reformat option in car but with one of the recent software pushes the menu changed and I can’t find it. Windows 10 won’t let me format a 256GB drive in the correct file system, so I’ll install another card and report back.
Sure it does; it has been recording video since before DashCam was an option. Here are some recent sentry clips triggered by people walking by or pulling up to my car:Sentry does not record video. Not ever.
Thank you!Try removing and reinserting the USB. The command to format the drive in the car is Controls > Safety > Format USB Drive, but that option won’t be available if no USB drive is detected, or if you have multiple USBs.
Sure it does
it has been recording video since before DashCam was an option.
Here are some recent sentry clips triggered by people walking by or pulling up to my car:
Are you making the distinction that it is the Dashcam function running but triggered by Sentry's object detection? If so, it's still curious that my car is recording video due to Sentry events, but that Dashcam is unavailable.
This is outright false.
Dashcam was introduced almost 6 months before Sentry was.
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Fall 2018 for Dashcam.
Feb 2019 for Sentry.
Those are dashcam recordings that sentry moved from the RECENT folder (Where dashcam records) to the SENTRY folder.
How could sentry 'record' the previous 10 minutes before an event it didn't know was going to happen?
It couldn't.
Dashcam is ALWAYS recording if the car is awake (and dashcam is functioning)-- Sentry simple moves the last 10 minutes of that footage to the sentry folder so it's not overwritten as the recent footage always is after an hour.
Given how the system works (thanks for your explanation), I would agree with that statement. Maybe it was a bug, or something with the formatting of the SD card (despite being usable on a PC), or something else entirely. Either way, it was presented by interface that Dashcam was "unavailable," which I'd posit is distinct from "not functioning," and at the same time footage was being recorded and some of it moved into the sentry folder.That's not possible.
I'm also getting this message every couple days now too. The only fix is to unplug and reinsert the USB, but it soon fails again. Of course you won't notice it isn't working until you get a sentry alert that didn't actually save anything.So is my glovebox USB dead? (2021 M3 LR)
Got the DashCam unavailable check USB message.