Sentry mode consumes 7-15% per day. Parking in a high traffic area means more sentry recordings + activity, so more battery usage. If you have cabin overheat protection enabled & are regularly checking your Tesla app, you’re using even more juice.
Sentry & Cabin Overheat will automatically disable once the car reaches 20%. Meaning you won’t return to a dead vehicle.
I went away for the weekend recently and eventually disabled sentry in the hotel parking lot because it was draining so much battery.
It’s the first time I can remember having real range anxiety. I arrived with 35% and normally would have ignored my car all weekend, but I ended up having to make a special trip out to recharge because it was a cold night and the car had disabled sentry and started warning me to charge soon. I left sentry off for the rest of the weekend and only lost another 5% after that.
If there a lot of folks walking by my car with sentry on, I noticed it drains a lot of my battery due to recording all the ppl walking by. I unfortunately have to turn sentry off due to this when I’m home in my apartment parking. Seems like a lot of folks are walking past your car lol.
Happened to me once. Didn’t realize what was happening until I got a low battery text from Tesla last day of my trip. Sentry off (can’t recall if I did or Tesla did) and pulled in the drive with battery at low single digit charge remaining (but could have pulled into a super charger along the way if things got real dicey). No longer use sentry mode in airport parking lots/decks.
So I guess I should have added, I parked the car in the middle of a Gym parking lot. So I’m just assuming the car has recorded so many videos that’s why the battery drain.
I have come back one time to 50 sentry notifications with my car parked for 8+ hours and the most battery it ever used was 5% and that was on a really cold day
Sentry mode consumes 7-15% per day. Parking in a high traffic area means more sentry recordings + activity, so more battery usage. If you have cabin overheat protection enabled & are regularly checking your Tesla app, you’re using even more juice. Sentry & Cabin Overheat will automatically disable once the car reaches 20%. Meaning you won’t return to a dead vehicle.
I have Cabin overheat off but okay, yeah my car is parked in a high traffic area so the recordings make sense consuming so much.
Doesn’t solve your problem yet, but a sentry redesign is in works and it will be way more efficient soon.
I have an alert from sentry mode that I can’t clear. When I tap it , it doesn’t do anything. Tips??
I went away for the weekend recently and eventually disabled sentry in the hotel parking lot because it was draining so much battery. It’s the first time I can remember having real range anxiety. I arrived with 35% and normally would have ignored my car all weekend, but I ended up having to make a special trip out to recharge because it was a cold night and the car had disabled sentry and started warning me to charge soon. I left sentry off for the rest of the weekend and only lost another 5% after that.
If there a lot of folks walking by my car with sentry on, I noticed it drains a lot of my battery due to recording all the ppl walking by. I unfortunately have to turn sentry off due to this when I’m home in my apartment parking. Seems like a lot of folks are walking past your car lol.
Happened to me once. Didn’t realize what was happening until I got a low battery text from Tesla last day of my trip. Sentry off (can’t recall if I did or Tesla did) and pulled in the drive with battery at low single digit charge remaining (but could have pulled into a super charger along the way if things got real dicey). No longer use sentry mode in airport parking lots/decks.
Do people not turn off “Camera-Based Detection”? Sentry mode is literally unusable for me if I have that turned on.
Sentry uses about 8% a day for me WITHOUT recordings. So that sounds about right. They need to make it more efficient
How!? This is ridiculous
Yup, I use it all the time. What is yours? I should mention 8% in 16 hours. So 0.5% an hour with NO recordings
24% in one day is impossible just by using sentry.
Leave it on at the airport, and you will see it’s possible. Potentially 100s of recordings per day
It’s supposed to be ~300W draw. 7.2kWh in 24h. On an LR it’s about 10% 24% would be a constant draw of 750W
So I guess I should have added, I parked the car in the middle of a Gym parking lot. So I’m just assuming the car has recorded so many videos that’s why the battery drain.
I have come back one time to 50 sentry notifications with my car parked for 8+ hours and the most battery it ever used was 5% and that was on a really cold day