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When Sentry Mode goes into its "Alert state" (HAL screen), it starts recording. This can be triggered by someone or something passing near your car. If you're parked on a busy street or in a busy lot/garage, you'll end up with a lot of three camera recordings, which can eat up storage quickly.I thought Sentry was only supposed to record after being activated by an incident?
I finally cleared out my 256GB flash drive earlier today. Been using Sentry Mode since I updated my Model 3 to 2019.5.4 three weeks ago. I still had around 90GB of free space even though there was 3 weeks worth of recordings on there. Get a 256GB drive and you’ll be ok as long as you remember to clear out the drive every other week. Tesla really needs to change the behavior so it automatically overwrites the oldest files...
I think it needs a sensitivity setting. The first time I tried it my car was in the garage. I have a hub in my garage so the car has good wifi and the blinking light on the hub caused sentry to record constantly till the card was full and became corrupted.
I would probably recommend everyone switch to dashcam friendly microsd cards (using a usb microsd adapter). Most regular USB flash drives aren't designed for dashcam/constant writing of data and could lead to drive failures.
I thought it was obvious I was just testing it out. That being said I don’t think it should activate for changing light. I don’t need to record every time a car goes by or the traffic light changes. It also should never corrupt the card.I guess this begs the question why would you have Sentry Mode active when your car is in your garage? Turn it off on your app.
I see the same problem with sentry mode not overwriting the old files and it's very annoying. It puts everything under SavedClips instead of RecentClips so basically you are guaranteed to run out of space after using sentry mode enough times. Hope they fix this.Apparently sentry mode doesn't ever record over itself like the front camera does?
I figured this out today when some jackhole went flying past me in the right lane, darted in front of me because of slower traffic on the right and proceeded to bounce off the center median barrier, almost flipping his 4 runner at 90+ MPH. I went to push the button to save recording and it was grayed out. When I got home I checked the flash drive and it was full of clips of my car sitting in the garage.
I enabled Sentry Mode the night I installed the update and must have filled the drive up right away and not noticed. I have no idea what was triggering it to record, there was nothing going on. I thought it would only record if it sensed something too, but does not seem that is the case.