Dashcam / Sentry: How they work and what they do (and dont) do

[dusty22]

You may have had the Auto save setting set, in which it may try to save the clip automatically, which may cause it to hiccup an skip a few seconds.

That must be what happened. I learn something new every day. Thank you for that explanation.

 

[Joesmoe3]

Still learning.

Today, for the first time, I returned to the car from lunch, and there was a green banner box note to the effect “1 incident recorded”.

I don’ think my car has dashcam - at least that is greyed out.

Where do I find any information on what the car thought was enough to post a notice of incident ?

 

[stopcrazypp]

Still learning.

Today, for the first time, I returned to the car from lunch, and there was a green banner box note to the effect “1 incident recorded”.

I don’ think my car has dashcam - at least that is greyed out.

Where do I find any information on what the car thought was enough to post a notice of incident ?

It turns gray when you are reviewing footage because it can't simultaneously do this while recording.

To view events recorded by Sentry mode, you can click the dashcam icon to bring up the viewer and then click the menu to choose the Sentry section as per below video:

 

[Joesmoe3]

Dashcam icon is X’d out. Is there some condition where that becomes enabled ?

By the way, got in the car this morning, and the notice on the display said, “14 events recorded."

 

[beachsideev]

Those events are sentry events, not dashcam events.

Double check there is a flash drive plugged into the usb port and format it.

 

[Joesmoe3]

Those events are sentry events, not dashcam events.

Double check there is a flash drive plugged into the usb port and format it.

I did install the Tesla catalog USB drive. The car recognized it, and formatted it. The alerts only started after doing that.

 

[beachsideev]

ok. sounds like sentry is working normally.

have you read the manual?