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Sentry USB Wiki

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a smart USB drive for your Tesla's dashcam. Clips archive themselves. A web UI lets you review, search, and back them up — no SSH, no config files.

Install in one line

No prebuilt SD card image yet. The install path is: flash stock Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit), SSH in, and run the one-liner below. A prebuilt image will come later — for now this is the only supported install route. Full step-by-step in Getting Started.

On a Pi already running Pi OS:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo -i
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sentry-Six/Sentry-USB-Rusty/main/install-pi.sh | bash

Refresh the apt cache first — Pi OS images bake in package lists that go stale as Debian publishes point releases, and a stale cache makes the install hit 404 errors.

Then open http://sentryusb.local and the Setup Wizard takes you the rest of the way.

What you need

Tier Boards Notes
Recommended Raspberry Pi 4B, Raspberry Pi 5 USB 2.0 OTG — fastest archiving, best web UI responsiveness
Tested Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Raspberry Pi 3 (A+/B/B+) USB 2.0 OTG — works fine, slower archive speeds
Community Radxa Rock Pi 4C+, Radxa Zero 3W USB 3.0 OTG Reported working by users, not officially supported

Plus:

  • MicroSD card, 256 GB or larger recommended
  • A USB 3.0 data cable (not charge-only) — Pi to your Tesla. Use a 3.0 cable even on boards that only support USB 2.0 OTG: 3.0 cables deliver more power, which keeps lower-end boards stable.
  • WiFi network with internet (for first-time setup and updates)

Quick Links

Page What's on it
Getting Started Install in 10 minutes
Setup Wizard Guide Every wizard step explained
Drives Trip tracking — route, distance, FSD usage, per-drive telemetry
Tesla BLE Telemetry What BLE pulls from the car and how it enriches drives
Archive Methods CIFS, rsync, rclone, NFS
Notifications Push notifications to your phone
Privacy What we send, when, and why — and how to opt out
Sentry Cloud Encrypted cloud backup (in beta)
Troubleshooting Things that go wrong
FAQ Common questions

Links

Discord · Report an issue · MIT License

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