It should be noted that sentry mode keeps the car awake which increases vampire drain quite considerably. Use one of the data enabled USB ports (typically ones accessible from the front seat, and the icons should soon appear. At the top level create a folder with the name "TeslaCam"Īll you now need to do is eject the storage device and plug it into the car.Open the device using the preferred file browser or file explorer.Tesla require a specific folder to be created for it to store the captured footage. You can find our recommendations for suitable storage on our Essential Accessories page. Tesla require the Dashcam and Sentry partition to be a minimum of 32GB, so the storage device either needs to be 32GB or bigger for Sentry/Dashcam only, or realistically 64GB or bigger if you also want to store music and/or lightshows. Even the Tesla supplied drive has a limited life expectancy.ĭepending on the amount of storage required we believe the best memory card for a Tesla is a video grade SD memory card or use a solid state disk if you are also looking to store music files locally.
Even if they work initially, they usually fail after a few months. They also typically have too slow a write speed and simply can not keep up with the requirements of the car. We recommend avoiding thumb drives as the type of memory used is not designed for frequent rewrites which will occur when being used as a dashcam or in sentry mode.
SENTRY STORAGE HOW TO
This guide discusses the choice of storage, how to set it up, and how to also add a music partition if required. store music, have custom boombox files or lightshows, you need to make some changes.
If you want to do more than use sentry mode, e.g. A second issue with storage is Tesla have removed many of the data USB ports in the car, and now most cars only have one data port in the glovebox. Even the device that Tesla supplies with new cars has a limited life span. Regular USB thumb drives or memory sticks are not ideal due to the limitations of the technology, they are either not fast enough or are not designed to be rewritten to many times and eventually fail. Both these features require the owner to use a storage device plugged into the USB port to store the content. Tesla's have the ability to use the built in cameras as both a dashcam when driving and as a sentry mode facility when parked up. Tesla storage set-up for sentry mode, dashcam, boombox and lightshow
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