My car was stolen out of my locked garage at 3:15 am. Sentry mode caught the first 26 seconds of travel which was through the garage door to the end of the driveway There is a 2+ minute gap and then recording picks up for about 20 more minutes. During that gap, the car was at the end of my driveway and one of the three burglers was getting into the car. Police (and I) were hoping to get an ID but didn’t. Does anyone know how or why this gap occurred?
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Gap in recording in Sentry mode
- Thread starter jaimedp1
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Stolen cars is never fun news, and neither is the reliability of Sentry Mode...
There are many reasons that the recording could have stopped:
1 - The car was rebooted during those two minutes
2 - Sentry Mode was turning off while Dash Cam mode was turning on (or the opposite)
3 - There was a system error (e.g. USB reported as too slow - it happens randomly on any type of media)
4 - The occupants were rummaging through the car and possibly unplugged it or caused the USB drive to disconnect and reconnect
and so on...
Unfortunately, there's not one pin point method to say why a recording stopped... In your situation, was the initial recording triggered as a Sentry Cam event? Possibly there was an issue with the second reason above - their approach/entry was captured under Sentry Mode, but, once they started driving, the vehicle disabled Sentry Mode and switched to Dashcam mode, and maybe there was an error, or, when they stopped at the end of the driveway, the vehicle wasn't in Park, and maybe the Dashcam hadn't initialized, or, had an issue starting...
There are many reasons that the recording could have stopped:
1 - The car was rebooted during those two minutes
2 - Sentry Mode was turning off while Dash Cam mode was turning on (or the opposite)
3 - There was a system error (e.g. USB reported as too slow - it happens randomly on any type of media)
4 - The occupants were rummaging through the car and possibly unplugged it or caused the USB drive to disconnect and reconnect
and so on...
Unfortunately, there's not one pin point method to say why a recording stopped... In your situation, was the initial recording triggered as a Sentry Cam event? Possibly there was an issue with the second reason above - their approach/entry was captured under Sentry Mode, but, once they started driving, the vehicle disabled Sentry Mode and switched to Dashcam mode, and maybe there was an error, or, when they stopped at the end of the driveway, the vehicle wasn't in Park, and maybe the Dashcam hadn't initialized, or, had an issue starting...
What is the rest of the story? How did you get the USB stick back? How did the evildoers get away with the car? It is really hard to drive off in a Tesla without a key fob or an account password. Once the key fob authenticates, sentry mode shuts off.
House was broken into, key fob stolen and they blasted through the locked garage door. The USB drive was still in the car which was abandoned about 20 mi from our house. Car was towed by police to the crime impound lot where it was dusted for prints and DNA. No prints but DNA sent to lab. No results yet. I was able to drive it home with a shattered back window. Car’s at repair shop now.
The video was fascinating to watch. Views from all four cameras, could read street signs even saw where they stopped and one guy stuck his hand out the falcon door to take a selfie. There was confusion about how to open/close that door.
The video was fascinating to watch. Views from all four cameras, could read street signs even saw where they stopped and one guy stuck his hand out the falcon door to take a selfie. There was confusion about how to open/close that door.
Watts_Up
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BigMskiman
Active Member
If yer house is not secure, nothing you own will be either. It's horrible these creeps who invade cannot be stopped. Sorry to hear.....
Unless you're in a fortress and check everyone, pretty much impossible to guarantee anything is secure...
Watts_Up
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Yup, not fortress-y enough, haha. I mean you need to have a moat, armed guards that you pay enough so they won't get after you, and so on... Basically the White House, but, better, since there are too many people there to know if you can trust them
BigMskiman
Active Member
Does any other car have these capabilities? I think we're doing the best we can, buy owning a Tesla with sentry-cam mode.
Hope the DNA matches somehow to those loosers.....
Hope the DNA matches somehow to those loosers.....
