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It did happen to me with previous version once when the car showed a cold weather sign on battery and reduced range by 35K. I haven't seen it again.I seem to be getting fairly massive phantom battery drain since 2020.12.11.1.
Anyone else with a similar experience?
I found a gash in my front bumper last week. - someone’s ball joint has sliced into it so it would have been a decent impact. Nothing on sentry, but plenty of other benign events were.The viewing of Dash Cam and Sentry seems like a mess...at least for me on a Model X and Model 3:
Eexperience for others?
- Unless one honks the horn or clicks on the save button Dash Cam no cam footage on current trip is saved
- Sentry recording seems like some things are being recorded, and others 'not'
- Car is not displaying the Sentry screen warning
I did notice Sentry was not getting activated in many occasions in 2020.12.5 version, but it seems it has improved much more after update to 2020.12.11.1The viewing of Dash Cam and Sentry seems like a mess...at least for me on a Model X and Model 3:
Eexperience for others?
- Unless one honks the horn or clicks on the save button Dash Cam no cam footage on current trip is saved
- Sentry recording seems like some things are being recorded, and others 'not'
- Car is not displaying the Sentry screen warning
Mine seems to be working OK.The viewing of Dash Cam and Sentry seems like a mess...at least for me on a Model X and Model 3:
- Unless one honks the horn or clicks on the save button Dash Cam no cam footage on current trip is saved
- Sentry recording seems like some things are being recorded, and others 'not'
- Car is not displaying the Sentry screen warning
Mine seems to be working OK.
"Unless one honks the horn or clicks on the save button Dash Cam no cam footage on current trip is saved"
I read that this is actually how it is supposed to work.
Honk or press Save and last ten minutes from the 60 minute rolling loop in \TeslaCam\RecentClips gets copied in to \TeslaCam\SavedClips. Current trip footage going back to current time minus 60 minutes should be in \TeslaCam\RecentClips. But this keeps recording & looping after your trip is complete up until car goes to sleep when it stops. So if you finish a drive and park for more than an hour with the car idle (not asleep) before pulling the disk you may have no drive footage. I just pulled my 1TB SSD & \RecentClips contains the last hour of footage while parked in my garage with dashcam off. Nothing else.
"Sentry recording seems like some things are being recorded, and others 'not' "
Must be lucky as mine seems to be catching most events. If there is an event, the last ten minutes from the 60 minute rolling loop in \TeslaCam\RecentClips gets copied in to \TeslaCam\SentryClips
"Car is not displaying the Sentry screen warning"
Working as expected here. Return to parked car. See event alert, tap on it and Dashcam viewer opens playing the most recent clip. Does't open at thhe position of the clip where the even occurred but scrolling towards the end finds it. Also I notice since the dashcam viewer was added in 2020.12.5 an event.json timestamp file is being written to mark the exact time and location of each and every sentry or save event. For example:
{
"timestamp":"2020-04-20T12:17:02",
"city":"Warburton",
"est_lat":"-37.6513",
"est_lon":"145.73",
"reason":"user_interaction_dashcam_icon_tapped"
}
Seemingly the viewer is not smart enough to open to this point as yet.
In the past I have seen dashcam record random bits of driving and store a whole nights worth of sentry footage. So I suppose they might be constantly tweaking how it works.
You cant honk the horn after becoming unconscious in an accident.@Flatbat thanks for your input....before this update the car would automatically just record each trip....why wouldn't we want all footage record automatically without having to touch the screen or honk the horn? It seems like a step backwards to do this....my understanding of the "save or honk horn" was more to save an event that is easier to find later (saved to a separate folder or something) rather than be the only way driving dash footage is saved....
I did notice Sentry was not getting activated in many occasions in 2020.12.5 version, but it seems it has improved much more after update to 2020.12.11.1
Reliability of the vast majority of Tesla's systems are at a level they'd fare better by making it all open source.
Not by just sitting with the dashcam off. But if you are just sitting with the dashcam on (red dot on camera icon) or sentry active then Yes it is overwritten within the recent clip process.The trip footage is recorded as before. A current limitation of the viewer is that it only shows footage saved to special folders either from Sentry events or from a user directed permanent save (honk or select save from icon).
I pulled my drive because I too was worried. The trip footage was still there. It doesn’t get erased from the car just sitting. Old footage does get erased as new footage is being added.
The reason the viewer is not currently showing recent clips may be related to json event label files. They record the time, lat/long and city name of the events. They are being used to neatly populate the event list that you see in the dashcam viewer app. If you scroll down Saved, Sentry or ALL list you will see events that do not have named locations. These being recorded before the viewer was installed . Tesla are probably working out how they want to list recentevent (trip) clips, given they do not have event label files appended in \TeslaCam\RecentClips@SR22pilot thanks for that, I wonder why the heck Tesla have released the app functioning like this?
Not by just sitting with the dashcam off. But if you are just sitting with the dashcam on (red dot on camera icon) or sentry active then Yes it is overwritten within the recent clip process.
The reason the viewer is not currently showing recent clips may be related to json event label files. They record the time, lat/long and city name of the events. They are being used to neatly populate the event list that you see in the dashcam viewer app. If you scroll down Saved, Sentry or ALL list you will see events that do not have named locations. These being recorded before the viewer was installed . Tesla are probably working out how they want to list recentevent (trip) clips, given they do not have event label files appended in \TeslaCam\RecentClips