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Sentry Mode & USB Power
- Thread starter TheDon
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darth_vad3r
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When the car is awake (it is when Sentry mode is on) I believe all 4 USB ports and the 12V outlet stay powered. This changed 2 or 3 software versions ago (like 2019.20 or before that?)
Cool - I am thinking of using a Raspberry Pi to record camera footage and if the power is gone, it would take like 30 or so seconds to boot up again. Would most likely get errors that it's too slow.
Tz00
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No, the car won't give errors. It just won't show up as recording until the Pi boots up. Not a big deal at all.
darth_vad3r
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A few software updates back I did a test of 12V and USB and they went off after the car went to sleep ~10-12 minutes, but stayed on if you used Climate Keeper or otherwise kept the car awake.
if you are looking at some of the Auto transfer options to your home computer, they do allow ways in the config file to keep the car awake if that is what you are shooting for. The errors have been corrected as well. Think they make some of the files read only. Attempting to get one working myself but ran into an issue where the Pi does not see the shared home computer when I run df -h. I can manually add it and I see it in the fstab but this does sound like a really cool idea.
Here's the thread if someone wanted to read a few pages.
Anyone still rocking a Pi Zero W smart drive for TeslaCam on Sentry Mode?
darth_vad3r
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Huh? The Pi plugged into the USB can keep the car awake? (Is what I thought at first). LOL. Of course it is networked and you can set it up with an API auth token so it can hammer the API to prevent it from sleeping! Nice.
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