Sentry Mode is so ridiculously bad

[Mōdel K]

My god, Sentry Mode is so bad.

It’s just constantly flashing the headlights when nothing is happening. No one is walking past, not even a cat. There are no bats flying around the car either. And still it gets triggered constantly. The first day I blamed the wind, the second day I blamed the rain, but the third day there hasn’t been wind or rain for hours now. What is it seeing?

When I’m lucky it’s recording and flashing its headlights 2-3 times an hour. But sometimes it’s 30 times an hour..!

It’s annoying the hell out of my neighbors. They’re hating the Tesla in the street now. A security system is not supposed to trigger anger, right..?

All the recording makes it completely useless as well. What am I supposed to do when I get in the car in the mornings, check 2 hours of video with nothing happening..?

And the most annoying thing is, it hasn’t recorded ANY of the doors of other parked cars
being slammed into the sides. So when people vandalize my car it’s not doing anything and when people are trying to relax it’s annoying them so much they have to come find me..?

What on earth is the use of Sentry Mode?

Sorry for ranting. At times when driving a Tesla it’s acting pretty dumb but when parked it’s simply mentally challenged…

Has it always been this terrible or should I book a warranty service appointment asap?

Good day,
K.

 

[DerbyDave]

To stop this behavior so it won't respond to alarms when someone isn't even touching your car, go to Security, Sentry, and disable Camera-Based Detection.

Problem with this mode is it likely wouldn't capture someone keying your paint.

 

[brkaus]

To stop this behavior so it won't respond to alarms when someone isn't even touching your car, go to Security, Sentry, and disable Camera-Based Detection.

Problem with this mode is it likely wouldn't capture someone keying your paint.

That switch is only available on cars with USS - I think.

The newer cars only have camera based detection.

It still should be telling you where the events are in playback. Maybe that will give you a hint?

I doubt bother with sentry.

 

[smogne41]

Today my car alarm went off in my work's parking garage. Reviewing the sentry video it was because some tree branches waved in the wind in front of the car, while somebody drove behind the car. Lovely

 

[Skavatar]

would turning off sentry sounds stop the flashing?

 

[DerbyDave]

would turning off sentry sounds stop the flashing?

Turning off camera based detection would.

 

[Leftlane22]

Without camera based detection what is the point of having sentry mode on? Isn’t it to capture whatever on camera?

 

[Mōdel K]

Turned it off when making this post, but here is an example:

23:52
23:51
23:51
23:50
23:49
23:48
23:47
And so on….

And of course nothing’s happening, nothing is moving, it’s all completely unnecessary.

 

[DerbyDave]

Is there any movement of light like car headlights going by, or a flashing status light on a battery charger, door opener, or other nearby device? If not, Tesla might need to look at what is going on.
Have you checked the cameras status in the service menu?

 

[brkaus]

My home video motion detection system frequently gets confused on shadows. I think it has nightmares and sees images in every shadow with sharp lines that is in the view.

 

[Lance From Jax]

My god, Sentry Mode is so bad.

It’s just constantly flashing the headlights when nothing is happening. No one is walking past, not even a cat. There are no bats flying around the car either. And still it gets triggered constantly. The first day I blamed the wind, the second day I blamed the rain, but the third day there hasn’t been wind or rain for hours now. What is it seeing?

When I’m lucky it’s recording and flashing its headlights 2-3 times an hour. But sometimes it’s 30 times an hour..!

It’s annoying the hell out of my neighbors. They’re hating the Tesla in the street now. A security system is not supposed to trigger anger, right..?

All the recording makes it completely useless as well. What am I supposed to do when I get in the car in the mornings, check 2 hours of video with nothing happening..?

And the most annoying thing is, it hasn’t recorded ANY of the doors of other parked cars
being slammed into the sides. So when people vandalize my car it’s not doing anything and when people are trying to relax it’s annoying them so much they have to come find me..?

What on earth is the use of Sentry Mode?

Sorry for ranting. At times when driving a Tesla it’s acting pretty dumb but when parked it’s simply mentally challenged…

Has it always been this terrible or should I book a warranty service appointment asap?

Good day,
K.

Just curious, did you ever consider that it might be your car and not Sentry Mode as a whole?
I have yet to have a false alarm.

 

[zoomer0056]

Turned it off when making this post, but here is an example:

23:52
23:51
23:51
23:50
23:49
23:48
23:47
And so on….

And of course nothing’s happening, nothing is moving, it’s all completely unnecessary.

Sounds like a service appointment is needed, it's broke. My car has never shown such disdain towards me. Sentry is on with camera detection set.

 

[Mōdel K]

Is there any movement of light like car headlights going by, or a flashing status light on a battery charger, door opener, or other nearby device? If not, Tesla might need to look at what is going on.
Have you checked the cameras status in the service menu?

No, seriously nothing at all. But thanks for your time. I guess it’s time for an appointment then.
And I’m not sure I can check camera status in the service menu. I can only recalibrate the cameras for AutoPilot, which I’ve already done.

Just curious, did you ever consider that it might be your car and not Sentry Mode as a whole?
I have yet to have a false alarm.

Yes, last question. But did assume it just sucks, haha. But thanks for your input. Service appointment it is!

Sounds like a service appointment is needed, it's broke. My car has never shown such disdain towards me. Sentry is on with camera detection set.

Thanks for your input!

 

[CyberShy]

Can’t you turn off the flashing? I thought you could.

 

[lbowroom]

I also have never had a false alarm on sentry. Perhaps it’s picking up on an infrared light like from a remote control or camera system that you can’t see.

 

[AAKEE]

That switch is only available on cars with USS - I think.

The newer cars only have camera based detection.

It still should be telling you where the events are in playback. Maybe that will give you a hint?

Problem is, since USS was removed, there is often no sentry event and no recording when you get the damage.

I doubt bother with sentry.