Sentry Mode

[hugh_jassol]

The problem with this huge amount of data is that it relies on you noticing that your car was damaged. Unless you do a full walk-around every time you come back to it, there is a good chance that by the time you spot any damage the footage will have been erased

Incidents are saved until you delete them...

 

[Rich C.]

“Sentry Mode must be enabled each time a driver wants to use the feature..”
Sounds like, we will need to reenable each time to activate it as it would default back to an off status.

Hope it doesn’t drain too much battery; example leaving the car at the airport for a few days with it being on.
Hope app will have the option to turn off/ on as well.

Another wish is the ability to view the cameras remotely. Likely won’t happen due to bandwidth/ cost to Tesla.

Still happy getting it for free.

We've found a 10 miles of range drain overnight. And you can arm the car from your app (under Controls).

 

[PoitNarf]

Anyone else seeing this in their Model 3? Had sentry on. Got in the car and Hal wouldn't go away. Had to do a reboot to clear the screen, I mean, I like 2001 as much as the next Kubrick fan but...

"Take the next exit, Model 3."
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

 

[Need]

"Take the next exit, Model 3."
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

"Hey Google, take the next exit."
"You got it."

Yeah I watched the commercials during Oscars... LOL.

 

[lairdb]

Still waiting for my update, but it occurs to me that a command line script (best, e.g. ffmpeg) or micro-utility (okay) that would paste together the snippets timewise, and all three into a single wide format video, would be handy. Bonus points for chyroning any metadata (even if it's just times synced from the filename and framerate.

I'm working on this, using ffmpeg and a Powershell script. Since I don't yet have the update, if someone has a small set of sample front-left-right files they're willing to share for dev/test, please PM me.

 

[PoitNarf]

I'm working on this, using ffmpeg and a Powershell script. Since I don't yet have the update, if someone has a small set of sample front-left-right files they're willing to share for dev/test, please PM me.

I could share a few sample videos with you after I get home from work.

 

[Need]

So parking at work today with front of the car facing the parking lot road, I got 10 incidents in about 10 hours. I lost 11 miles while parked. My 16 GB USB Drive (actual usable 14.2 GB) was over 11 GB full. The recentClips folder contains 177 of 1 minute files (front, left, right). I think it is supposed to be 180 (3 x 60 min) but somehow 1 min (3 files) are missing. The savedClips folder contains 10 folders (10 incidents). Total size is 6GB. It is not 10GB because some of those incidents happened within 10 min of each others so some incidents have less files. All of them were people walk past the front of my car. The last incident was me coming back to the car (on the left camera). So if you activated Sentry Mode, you are going to have at least 1 incident saved (about 1 GB) of yourself coming back to the car. Unless you disable Sentry Mode on the phone first.

When it detects an incident (someone walked within 2 feet of your front or side), It saved that min of video and the previous 10 minutes. The incident usually occurs in the newest full 1 min files (set of 3) within the incident folder.

So today, I parked at work with the front of the car facing the front of another car. I got 0 incident on the flash drive. I also disable Sentry Mode remotely before I got back to the car after work. So It is working pretty good, just have to make sure the front of the car is not facing high traffic area. Or if you park on the side of the street... the passenger side cannot have lots of foot traffic.

BTW, I used my OTG adapter that came with my Pixel 3 XL phone today and I was able to watch the clips on my phone and delete the folder after.

 

[PoitNarf]

Anyone check if voice commands can activate Sentry Mode? If it can’t then Tesla should totally add this! I’m going to try this tomorrow morning; “Engage sentry mode!”

 

[Trevor B]

Using the AI to recognize damage means more processing, which means more energy, which means more lost range.

I got that ... it's the first part I have trouble comprehending, given where we are today with AI

 

[lairdb]

Anyone check if voice commands can activate Sentry Mode? If it can’t then Tesla should totally add this! I’m going to try this tomorrow morning; “Engage sentry mode!”

I believe others have mentioned that clearly it should be "Keep Summer safe!"

(AFAIK, like all the rest of the things that should be voice activated, it's not.)

 

[PoitNarf]

I tried this morning and I wasn't able to find any voice command that would activate Sentry Mode. However I did not try "keep summer safe" but I'll give that a shot after work.

 

[BluestarE3]

However I did not try "keep summer safe" but I'll give that a shot after work.

I just tried it and, sadly, it didn't worked. Would be cool though if it did.

 

[ranova]

Incidents are saved until you delete them...

This is both good and bad - sentry mode in a busy parking lot will fill up a drive so quickly. From some reports, about 1gb EACH event since its writing the past 10 minutes from all 3 cameras onto the drive

If you plan on using sentry mode - do NOT get anything under 128gb. Amazon has a 400gb microsd right now for $62, might try that for TeslaCam even though I don't consider Sandisk high quality and a lot of teslacam corruption seems to happen with sandisk usb drives that Ive seen

 

[Need]

I just tried it and, sadly, it doesn't worked. Would be cool though if it did.

Well if you guys find anything new, you could add to this very short list of working Tesla Voice commands thread:
Known working voice commands?

 

[BigMo]

I was on vacation for 7 days with my Model 3 not plugged in sitting in my garage.
The drain was 41 mi over 7 full days.
While on vacation, I twice woke it up and checked the location.

 

[EVPGH]

Interesting information. I guess the ultimate question is 'Has anyone benefited from Sentry Mode? As in, has it deterred a potential vandal.' Not, the here is my test video.

 

[CamDLux]

I picked up the SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive on sale today from Amazon to capture camera feeds. SanDisk 128GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive $18.39. Enjoy.

 

[enolam]

I still don't have Sentry Mode update for my Model 3, LR RWD. I checked my app in the Play Store and it's fully updated, with last update 2/21. Would the app still show an update was due to the car if the car was having a difficult time installing due to crappy WiFi? It seem like my car is the last to get updates. I'm on version 2018.50.6 4ec03ed.

 

[MP3Mike]

Would the app still show an update was due to the car if the car was having a difficult time installing due to crappy WiFi?

Nope, the app doesn't show the update until after it is completely downloaded and ready to install.

 

[voip-ninja]

I still don't have Sentry Mode update for my Model 3, LR RWD. I checked my app in the Play Store and it's fully updated, with last update 2/21. Would the app still show an update was due to the car if the car was having a difficult time installing due to crappy WiFi? It seem like my car is the last to get updates. I'm on version 2018.50.6 4ec03ed.

I doubt even 10% of people have the new update. It could be that Tesla is rolling it out slowly, will make some improvements based on customer feedback (false activations of Sentry Mode spring to mind) and then most customers will ultimately receive a later release with the feature in a more polished state.