tesla_dashcam VS teslausb

So its tangential, but I use https://github.com/ehendrix23/tesla_dashcam to scrub my Tesla footage, and this even stitches 4 cameras into a single pane. at its core its just a python program, and uses ffmpeg to do the transcoding, but it has options for motion only. it saves me a bunch of space to, recent test crunched 2.2GiB to 15 MiB using the cpu (e5-2698v3). That said the Tesla native compression . . . isnt.

I have my Pi upload to a local storage point where a script then runs Tesla_Dashcam over the footage to combine all the feeds into one video for reviewing (for Sentry stuff I have it speed up sections of the video where nothing happens).

I also choose to combine it with this (not done on the Pi but a VM I have running on a home server) to process the footage into sped up clips with all cameras in one video for quick and easy reviewing.

Pi Zero W running teslausb for recording / auto upload to remote storage and tesla_dashcam to mux the different camera feeds. It also allows you to push Boombox MP3s to your Tesla over the network

Now all you need to do is have this setup to run after your Pi has finished uploading to make easier to review videos

On the TeslaUSB page, it lists the following Raspberry Pi's as options:

Main difference between the two scenarios, however, is that the 3 was left in a parking garage, while the Y was left in an open field. With the 3 in a parking garage, I don't think the vehicle went over 100 degrees, while the Y, being left in an open field, would sometimes hit about 150 degrees. Because the temperatures were more reasonable in the parking garage, I also left my Raspberry Pi running TeslaUSB in the car, where as with the Y being left in an open field and being subject to extreme thermal temperatures, I opted to use a regular USB thumb drive there.

I've found that using something like TeslaUSB reduces the "blip" quite a bit.

This has had issues since the newer 2021 Intel-based model 3s (and I presume others). https://github.com/marcone/teslausb/issues/564

teslausb with a high endurance microSD card.

If you have a Raspberry Pi 0 or 4 you can do a TeslaUSB which let's yoy access the footage over a WiFi gotspot on the thing and a better WebUI.

If you've driven more than an hour since the incident, the footage will be gone (unless you're using TeslaUSB, but I'm guessing not)

I use this for my Teslas Dashcam (it was built for it), but it also has a feature to rsync music files from a network share every time it connects to the network. Sounds like it would cover what you want, and it supports RPI Zero Ws natively.

https://github.com/marcone/teslausb