teslausb VS tesla_dashcam

If you have the patience to set it up, definitely look into TeslaUSB

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

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

I use TeslaUSB, which uploads the videos to my OneDrive when I get home.

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 computer as my dashcam drive that writes out to a 128GB Samsung FIT drive now and the blip is nearly gone, but I can also keep up to about a day's worth of footage from all four cameras on it, because of how the 3rd party TeslaUSB software that you run on it works.

Personally, I use TeslaUSB, which runs on a Raspberry Pi 4, which I keep in the glove box, and have a 128GB Samsung FIT connected to it. The TeslaUSB's software snapshots the drive every hour, and consumes as much storage as you provide it. In my case I can store about 24 hours of footage on the drive. TeslaUSB's software also let's the drive automatically upload saved footage to my OneDrive account, where I an review it later. Alternatively, there's a web interface I can use to stream the footage from the Raspberry Pi from my workstation.

If you're feeling really adventurous, and have a Raspberry Pi, you can also look getting TeslaUSB which can upload the dashcam footage straight to local storage, or the cloud, when you get home.

I use TeslaUSB to store my dashcam footage. Once home TeslaUSB uploads all the footage to my OneDrive.

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