What technical issues do you have at the moment?
I was programming in Fortran on punch cards and 300 baud timeshare terminals in 1973. First exposure to Unix in 1980. And Mac OS, which I have been heavily involved in since the early days, is largely Unix based, as I’m sure you know. I think I know a thing or two about Unix and s/w development.
But that’s neither here nor there, as I don’t have access to Tesla’s code. My issue is with Tesla’s implementation of the dashcam feature, which is either extremely buggy, or simply doesn’t work like any of the 4 or 5 that I have previously owned. And yes, I’m aware of the fact that the manual says it’s only a Beta version. But Beta, in my considerable experience, has usually meant that something is largely feature-complete, but may still be buggy.
So, yes, the dashcam did finally start recording video after a few days. Perhaps this is related to the other features that apparently require some “training” period, such as the cruise and lanekeeping, as well as s/w updates. Doesn’t make sense to me, but whatever.
In any case, I just now pulled the flash from the car. Right before that, I tried to view the footage in the car — there wasn’t any. Sure enough, when I looked at the drive, both the RecentClips and the SavedClips folder were empty. So, not only did it erase the RecentClips, which I believe you said it doesn’t do, but it even erased my SavedClips, which I know I had a few of from earlier. BTW, I have Sentry Mode turned off, in case that matters. And can you explain why someone insisted earlier, either in this thread or another one, that Sentry Mode NEVER records video? It clearly does.
So, aside from what seems to be mysterious and unpredictable operation of Tesla’s Dashcam implementation, I have two basic issues:
1). Why limit the recordings to one hour? There seems to be no good reason that anyone has presented. Someone tried to make the argument that it’s because flash has limited write cycles. That is true. But I quickly did a brief computation, which showed that the flash, even with heavy driving, would still last a few years, and probably in most cases longer than the car. And besides, if you’re going to record while driving anyway, it still doesn’t buy you anything to start erasing the previous hour, rather than just wait until it starts getting full.
2). It appears to be erasing the existing hour while parked. I haven’t had the time to do a thorough investigation of this behavior, but as I pointed out above, the drive is completely empty right now, and I have almost 500 miles on the car. This is just plain wrong.
I’m also pretty sure that both Trekker_ and WhiteWi will shortly be marking this post with a Thumbs Down, as they have with every single post of mine to date, no matter how innocuous — perhaps you can explain that one too, as that makes no sense to me either.
I do appreciate your taking the time to respond to me in a calm and professional manner, and trying to address my issues, which I believe is the main purpose of this forum. I really don’t understand why I’ve been taking so much abuse, other than I probably chose a poor title for this thread. At the same time, I still believe that the title is not too far off the mark if my 2 main issues described above truly are the way it works. Others may disagree, but the bottom line is, no other dashcam that I’m aware of works this way. Anyway, thanx for your help