Saving an hours worth of Dash Cam video

[sealbeach100d]

Hello,

If I want to save an hours worth of dashcam video (driving & sentry mode), how would I do it?
If at the end of the hour, if I press the Dashcam icon once to save the last 10 minutes, what happens to the previous 50 minutes?
If I just hold the Dashcam icon until it "flashes", that makes it safe to remove the USB, but I don't believe it saves anything.
If I do a "flash" and the hour of video (driving & parked) is there, doesn't it go away if I pull the USB & re-insert it later that same day (as it writes over the data with the just inserted data on the USB?
If I just do a "flash" to make it safe to remove the USB, & pull the USB out, but not re-insert it until the next day, will my hour of driving & parking be "saved" on the USB because the date of the saved files is the previous day's date (no same day files to be overwritten), or is there a simpler way that I can't seem to figure out?

The Owner's Manual doesn' exactly cover this situation (unless I just plain missed it).

Thanks

 

[drtimhill]

Hello,

If I want to save an hours worth of dashcam video (driving & sentry mode), how would I do it?
If at the end of the hour, if I press the Dashcam icon once to save the last 10 minutes, what happens to the previous 50 minutes?
If I just hold the Dashcam icon until it "flashes", that makes it safe to remove the USB, but I don't believe it saves anything.
If I do a "flash" and the hour of video (driving & parked) is there, doesn't it go away if I pull the USB & re-insert it later that same day (as it writes over the data with the just inserted data on the USB?
If I just do a "flash" to make it safe to remove the USB, & pull the USB out, but not re-insert it until the next day, will my hour of driving & parking be "saved" on the USB because the date of the saved files is the previous day's date (no same day files to be overwritten), or is there a simpler way that I can't seem to figure out?

The Owner's Manual doesn' exactly cover this situation (unless I just plain missed it).

Thanks

The only way to do this is to take the drive out and then copy off the contents onto a PC .. that will give you about the last hour of video recording. But you can't snapshot it while the drive is in the car .. only the 10 min segments around a dashcam event. And if you do press the Dashcam icon, nothing happens to the prior 50 minutes of video, its just rotated out as normal.

 

[CyberGus]

Just honk every 5 minutes

 

[jankratochvil]

Raspberry Pi Zero W so that your Tesla thinks it's a USB drive
(not tested not having Tesla yet)

 

[sealbeach100d]

The only way to do this is to take the drive out and then copy off the contents onto a PC .. that will give you about the last hour of video recording. But you can't snapshot it while the drive is in the car .. only the 10 min segments around a dashcam event. And if you do press the Dashcam icon, nothing happens to the prior 50 minutes of video, its just rotated out as normal.

Thanks for the reply.
So that I'm clear, I drive for an hour, then, before I get out of the car, I have to push the Dashcam icon until it flashes so that it's safe to remove the USB. THEN, take out the USB & copy the files onto my laptop.
Then, if I put the USB back in the car (same day), that act will cause the USB to write over the last hour?
If that's true, then I wonder if I wait until the next day (date change) will it leave the hour's worth of files from the now PREVIOUS day on the USB & start a new date/time set of files for the current day?