DAP
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- Dash Cam
- Two Viofo 129 PRO cameras and a Tesla Model 3 4 Channel
This is an example of the Tesla model 3 front integrated dashcam. The Tesla model 3 records on three cameras, the front, and two backwards aimed cameras on the front fenders (those chrome triangular things on the front fenders)
all three cameras record at 1280x960 at 36 frames/sec. This is not great as a dashcam but one must remember that these cameras are optimized for the autodrive AI.
This leaves three large blind spots in the field of view, directly left, directly right, and directly behind the car. The car does have 5 other cameras that it is not recording that would fill those blind spots, so maybe this will eventually improve.
The tesla dashcam records simultaneously from all three cameras in a one hour loop. This consumes about 5.1 GB of Thumbdrive memory.
The camera is activated by plugging in a USB thumb drive (fat 32 only, it does not support anything else) with a directory in the root called "TeslaCam".
You can have it save a 10 minute chunk of video that it won't overwrite by tapping on the dashcam icon on the touchscreen.
Note that the dashcam will stop recording if the thumb drive runs out of memory, it does not adapt its 1 hour loop to the size of the thumb drive, it is always 1 hour, and if it can't fit that one hour on the thumb drive, it shuts down.
The third camera looks like a mirror image of the right repeater, so I did not upload that one.
I'm going to look into installing my a119 into my model 3 so I have better quality video.
(It would be nice if there was a Tesla dashcam page on this form)
all three cameras record at 1280x960 at 36 frames/sec. This is not great as a dashcam but one must remember that these cameras are optimized for the autodrive AI.
This leaves three large blind spots in the field of view, directly left, directly right, and directly behind the car. The car does have 5 other cameras that it is not recording that would fill those blind spots, so maybe this will eventually improve.
The tesla dashcam records simultaneously from all three cameras in a one hour loop. This consumes about 5.1 GB of Thumbdrive memory.
The camera is activated by plugging in a USB thumb drive (fat 32 only, it does not support anything else) with a directory in the root called "TeslaCam".
You can have it save a 10 minute chunk of video that it won't overwrite by tapping on the dashcam icon on the touchscreen.
Note that the dashcam will stop recording if the thumb drive runs out of memory, it does not adapt its 1 hour loop to the size of the thumb drive, it is always 1 hour, and if it can't fit that one hour on the thumb drive, it shuts down.
I'm going to look into installing my a119 into my model 3 so I have better quality video.
(It would be nice if there was a Tesla dashcam page on this form)