Sentry mode.....lot’s of events?

[Scubadude]

Been using sentry mode for about 6 weeks with a 64 GB ultra fit USB 3.1 flash drive and have had maybe one or two events during that time. Since the update last week (2019.12.1.2 5c87371), sentry mode has been going crazy. In one three hour period with the car parked in my usual spot in a garage, it registered 13 events. No alarms went off, just events. I plugged in my second identical flash drive the next day and it registered four events. I tried looking for anything usual on the drives, but could not find anything of note. Just the usual foot traffic and passing cars.

Curious if anyone else has had a similar experience. Thanks for your interest.

 

[OCR1]

If someone passed by your car and Sentry captured it on video, that is considered an event. Most events are just normal stuff but Sentry is not smart enough to know the difference yet.

 

[Scubadude]

If someone passed by your car and Sentry captured it on video, that is considered an event. Most events are just normal stuff but Sentry is not smart enough to know the difference yet.

Just find it odd nothing for 6 weeks then 13 events in a few hours. Will see what this week brings.

 

[OCR1]

Just find it odd nothing for 6 weeks then 13 events in a few hours. Will see what this week brings.

It is new to 12.2.X so if you just upgraded you are just now seeing these notifications.

 

[Scubadude]

It is new to 12.2.X so if you just upgraded you are just now seeing these notifications.

Upgraded last week. Modification made thing worse in my opinion.

 

[Nguyenning]

Yeah... I parked my car in a front row spot when getting my haircut. There was en event for almost every person that just walked by. And an event for cars pulling in & out of the parking spots next to me. A bit extreme IMO...

 

[BluestarE3]

Upgraded last week. Modification made thing worse in my opinion.

I don't think the criteria for triggering events has change. Previously, you had events you never knew about unless you pulled the USB drive and reviewed the saved files. Now, you get a notification on your screen whenever an event is triggered. Previously, some people were complaining the car didn't notify them of alert incidents, so they wouldn't know to review recordings to see if anything untoward may have happened; now, that has been addressed.

 

[BluestarE3]

Yeah... I parked my car in a front row spot when getting my haircut. There was en event for almost every person that just walked by. And an event for cars pulling in & out of the parking spots next to me. A bit extreme IMO...

If you deem the parking spot to be "safe" (you could see your car from the hair salon, for example), you could simply leave Sentry Mode off to avoid extraneous recordings. On the other had, if you're wary and don't want to risk even a slight chance that someone may do something to your car, then wouldn't it be worthwhile to put up with a bunch of innocuous recordings if it also captured a real event? If you recall some of the recent Sentry Mode videos posted here (door ding, keying, graffiti), these were captured because of Tesla's use of cameras to detect moving object proximity to trigger the recordings. As a result, the perpetrators were identified. A less "sensitive" means to trigger the saving of recordings may reduce the number of files written to your USB drive, but also may mean that these types of non-intrusive, yet still destructive, events would not have been captured.