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Smart Pi USB Drive

Sentry USB

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a smart USB drive for your Tesla. Track every drive, archive footage automatically, and manage everything from a modern web UI. Now rewritten in Rust — same config, faster server, more reliable.

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Features

A lot more than a USB stick

Drives Tracking

Every trip with route, distance, duration, battery deltas, and FSD usage — plus the dashcam clips that recorded it, one click away.

Tesla BLE Telemetry

Battery, HVAC, cabin and exterior temps, TPMS, odometer, and location — pulled over Bluetooth and layered onto each drive. No Tesla API subscription needed.

Multi-Camera Viewer

Synchronized playback of up to six camera feeds in the browser, with an HW3-aware adaptive grid and drift correction.

Auto-Archive

CIFS/SMB, rsync, rclone for cloud storage, or NFS. Archiving kicks off automatically whenever the Pi sees your home Wi-Fi.

Charging History

Every charge session — energy added, duration, cost, and charging speed — with per-tag time-of-use electricity rates and rolling totals.

Keep Awake

Keep the car awake and the dashcam recording via BLE (free), TeslaFi, Tessie, or a generic webhook.

Sentry Cloud Sync

Optional encrypted drive and charging-history sync, currently in beta. Requires a Sentry Cloud account and separate plans and policies; dashcam video is not uploaded.

12 Notification Providers

Pushover, ntfy, Gotify, Discord, Telegram, Slack, Signal, Matrix, AWS SNS, IFTTT, webhooks, and native iOS push via Sentry Connect.

Privacy-First

No device fingerprint by default. Analytics are opt-in. Local recording and archiving stay under your control, with optional online features.

Screenshots

See it in action

Sentry USB web dashboard
The dashboard — drives, storage, and archive status at a glance
Drive detail with route map, battery deltas, and FSD usage
Every drive with route, distance, battery deltas, and FSD usage
Charging history with cost per session
Charging history — energy, duration, cost, and charging speed
Guided 11-step setup wizard
The 11-step setup wizard — no config files
Installation

Up and running in five steps

  1. 1Flash Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) to a 256 GB+ SD card
  2. 2SSH in and run the one-line installer
  3. 3Open sentryusb.local in a browser
  4. 4Complete the 11-step setup wizard — no config files
  5. 5Plug the Pi into your Tesla with a USB 3.0 data cable

Run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y first — stale Pi OS images will otherwise hit 404s during install.

Compatible hardware

Recommended
Raspberry Pi 4B · Raspberry Pi 5
Fastest archiving, smoothest UI
Tested
Pi Zero 2 W · Pi 3 Model A+
Works fine, slower archive speeds
Not supported
Pi 3 Model B · Pi 3 Model B+
Cannot provide the required USB gadget connection
Community
Radxa Rock Pi 4C+ · Radxa Zero 3W
Reported working, not officially supported

You'll also need a 256 GB+ MicroSD card and a USB 3.0 data cable (not charge-only) — even on USB 2.0 boards, it delivers more power and keeps lower-end Pis stable.

Automate your archiving

Stop pulling the USB stick out of your car. Let the Pi do the work.

Read the Setup GuideView on GitHub
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