MODEL 3 Dashcam

[Ant M3]

Ok so I’ve purchased an SD card, formatted it to Fat32 and inserted it (via a usb adapter) into the car.
When I did this, the sentry camera icon appeared at the top of the screen, I clicked this until it was RED, so it’s now recording sentry incidents.
my question is about the dashcam function, the guy at Tesla assured me that the car has built in Dashcam, and when watching YouTube the Dashcam icon should also appear at the top of the screen.... however it didn’t do this for me .

anyone got any idea ?


Apologies if this is covered in another thread, I did look but couldn’t find

 

[davidmc]

Photo below shows the 2 icons

Camera with little dot is the dash cam which means it's On
HAL 2000 eye is the sentry cam On

 

[davidmc]

Forgot to add

Did you add the TeslaCam folder to your SD card?

 

[Ant M3]

Forgot to add

Did you add the TeslaCam folder to your SD card?

Ahh, no I didn’t add a TeslaCam folder , is this where I went wrong ?

 

[davidmc]

Yep. Once you formatted the SD add the folder to the card

Then should work

 

[Alex987854]

Ahh, no I didn’t add a TeslaCam folder , is this where I went wrong ?

Yes. You won't be able to use it to play mp3s from the same drive unless you have separate partitions.

 

[Ant M3]

Ok great, cheers both ... I’ll sort after I put the kids to bed

 

[Ant M3]

Ok great, cheers both ... I’ll sort after I put the kids to bed

Yep, that sorted it, thanks both

 

[davidmc]

Yep, that sorted it, thanks both

Brilliant, glad it's working

 

[Kitster]

Anyone know if plans to make viewing sentry/dashcam footage available on the screen in the car? Or even view remotely on your phone ...any solution that basically allows the usb to stay plugged in all the time?

 

[davidmc]

Anyone know if plans to make viewing sentry/dashcam footage available on the screen in the car? Or even view remotely on your phone ...any solution that basically allows the usb to stay plugged in all the time?

Not sure but would be helpful

The only way to do this at the moment is by using a raspberry pi

 

[JCremonini]

Yep, that sorted it, thanks both

Did you not think to just read the manual ? ( Page 75, btw )

 

[MrBadger]

Anyone know if plans to make viewing sentry/dashcam footage available on the screen in the car? Or even view remotely on your phone ...any solution that basically allows the usb to stay plugged in all the time?

dash and especially sentry clearly an after thought - as well as previously mentioned raspberry pi, you can also get wifi enabled cards.

Personally, I just rotate a couple of cards every few weeks.

Some third party web apps or apps that can be used. I personally like TeslaCam Video WebApp Player and have donated to it as it shows good progress - some people incorrectly believe it is uploading video to servers - it doesn't its purely a web browser based app, so maybe one day, it could make it to the cars screen if they were given access to the drives from the cars web browser.

 

[BelfastEV]

Hi

I bought the two SD cards for sentry / dashcam etc. Is there an (I am a..) idiot guide somewhere to what I do next ?

Thanks

 

[Ant M3]

Hi

I bought the two SD cards for sentry / dashcam etc. Is there an (I am a..) idiot guide somewhere to what I do next ?

Thanks

YouTube was my go to place ... but even then I forgot to create a separate folder “TeslaCam” and was saved by a couple of guys on here ...
it’s also meant to be in the manual page 75

 

[Glan gluaisne]

I'm part way through setting up a Raspberry Pi Zero W as a USB storage device for the Tesla, with the ability to dump video to our home server as soon as it gets within wifi range.

In the meantime, I'm using a Samsung T5 USB SSD, that has two partitions each with a single folder, one named TeslaCam and the other named TeslaMusic. The music folder contains my entire collection of MP3s. I followed the description given here: http://www.thebrainspike.com/how-to...ssd-for-tesla-model-3-complete-windows-guide/

This setup seems to work flawlessly, as far as I've been able to tell.

 

[CMc1]

Anyone know if plans to make viewing sentry/dashcam footage available on the screen in the car?

It’s coming as hinted by Elon...

keepsummersafe.app is good too, for skipping through clips at a faster speed.

 

[BelfastEV]

YouTube was my go to place ... but even then I forgot to create a separate folder “TeslaCam” and was saved by a couple of guys on here ...
it’s also meant to be in the manual page 75

Any good links ?

 

[Ant M3]

So I’ve updated to the latest software version last night and now my Dashcam memory card is saying it’s full and that I need to empty it ... I thought that it was meant to overnight itself ?

 

[Ant M3]

Overwrite . Grrrr