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You do not need to do that. Just format the USB stick using the car. It will do everything for you. Also stop using Fat32, it's exFAT.If you've inserted a properly formatted flash drive, memory card (+ reader), or SSD then Dashcam should activate automatically while you're driving. Format the storage device as FAT32, and create a TeslaCam directory at the root level of the drive.
You do not need to do that. Just format the USB stick using the car. It will do everything for you. Also stop using Fat32, it's exFAT.
Anyway... the USB stick that comes with the car should be all set. When you see the red dot while driving, it means the dashcam is ON. HOWEVER, you need to save this footage by either turning on the 'honk to save footage' setting in the car, then honking or press the dashcam icon when you need to save the footage.
Wait so no matter how much space you have, it will only hold one hour of video? Then delete it?
This matters, because on my other vehicle I once needed to go back a couple days for an event, that I didn't realize needed to be saved.
(First few days with 2019 M3, so much to learn and haven't reviewed video yet.)
Actually, both the dashcam and sentry mode feature was tacked on after the fact. The cameras were not designed to do this from the beginning. They can probably change the programming to act like a normal dashcam if they wanted, but then people would probably complain about why their USB storage device was always full or their USB sticks were dying left and right, etc, etc.That's why a lot of us have real, third party dashcams installed. I have a blackvue 750 system. The teslacam is a nice add-on to the car, but tesla seemingly decided to engineer it from scratch, without using any experience from how other dashcams work, and can only be viewed as a work in progress at this point.
(I am thinking that with FSD betas on the horizon, having a well functioning TeslaCam would be helpful to Tesla.)
Today I converted to a slightly different product. BestBuy has a Samsung T7 SSD 500GB discounted $30 so about $69 in the US. (I am thinking that with FSD betas on the horizon, having a well functioning TeslaCam would be helpful to Tesla.)
I believe this technology is faster than the PNY flash drives (a bit)
. It does offer nice performance and good video quality.
Hello, I am a new owner and I’ve only had my model 3 for less than a month. I am not very technically savvy so could you provide a little more detail if you have time? Do you just plug the board into the glove box receptacle and just leave the board in the glove box and do you need anything else other than the board and cable. Thanks in advanceYeah, I thought that, and learned that they give less than a crap about your video. I had several clips carefully edited with explanations of how the car clearly screwed up. They have zero interest. And Musk has basically come out and said so publicly.
I have a Raspberry Pi Zero plugged in as the media storage. It contains one of the durable SD cards meant for dashcam use (can be re-written for years). The Pi also stores DAYS of video instead of one hour. And whenever I am home, it uploads the saved and sentry videos to my desktop over wifi. Before the Pi, I was just using the durable SD in an adapter.
Thanks for the detailed explanation… this is definitely something I want to explore !I've been a network and server admin for 30+ years, so it's impossible for me to quantify what an end user would face in doing things. Here are the instructions, which are mildly technical, I think:
GitHub - marcone/teslausb: A smart USB drive for Tesla Dashcam - extended storage, auto archive, web viewer
A smart USB drive for Tesla Dashcam - extended storage, auto archive, web viewer - marcone/teslausbgithub.com
I'm using a Pi Zero kit that was $25 on Amazon, with a high endurance SD card meant for dashcams ($20 or so). I have it connect to my desktop computer and upload the video when it's at home on wifi. This is an option, you could also use it without wifi, and just get data off the card itself as needed. Even without wifi, the system extends the recording time to days instead of a single hour.
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One huge note is that when you run the part that completes the install (./setup-teslausb), it will take a VERY long time to finish. Like maybe 20 minutes. So plan to let it sit and be patient. I actually thought something had failed and restarted it (running headless, no monitor, so no feedback).