What triggers Gear Guard recording?

[Nikhiluor]

Hi - Can someone pls help me understand what circumstances gear guard will record video and how it is triggered?

Regards
Nikhil

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[Rivian-E]

I believe there are several parameters for it to capture an incident.

It will capture any time that the horn is engaged.
I believe it will also capture when abrupt braking occurs.
and obviously, if the vehicle is involved in a collision.

 

[R1TandMe]

But not if some one breaks into your car. Or hits you in a garage. Too many posts to ignore this problem

 

[Nikhiluor]

Thanks. The reason I am asking is that Tesla seems to be continuously recording irrespective of status of your driving. Apparently my cousin had just met with an accident when he had stopped his car on freeway because one plane landed on freeway in Cupertino, CA and another car couldn’t react on time while driving towards stopped cars. Seems Tesla recorded entire incident which is what is really useful not when I press brake or horn…

Hope I am making sense …thank you for replying …

 

[SANZC02]

Thanks. The reason I am asking is that Tesla seems to be continuously recording irrespective of status of your driving. Apparently my cousin had just met with an accident when he had stopped his car on freeway because one plane landed on freeway in Cupertino, CA and another car couldn’t react on time while driving towards stopped cars. Seems Tesla recorded entire incident which is what is really useful not when I press brake or horn…

Hope I am making sense …thank you for replying …

Accident or horn triggers a capture, 15 seconds prior to event and 1 minute 45 seconds after. I think a hard brake or hard evasive action triggers as well, those I have not tested but horn works for sure.

 

[Greg Chick]

I think the "gear guard" when the vehicle parked is triggered differently than when the vehicle is in motion. Example, if I drive off the road to pull over on roadside and the road edge is rough, it is recorded and saved in the file of videos.
Then the parked trigger seems different. I think I need to hide my phone that I use for a key and sneek up on my truck in a plblic place and try the door handles or push the fender abruptly to see if it triggers a video. Anyone tryied such things?

 

[DrBad]

If he has a USB memory stick it will record continuously

Thanks. The reason I am asking is that Tesla seems to be continuously recording irrespective of status of your driving. Apparently my cousin had just met with an accident when he had stopped his car on freeway because one plane landed on freeway in Cupertino, CA and another car couldn’t react on time while driving towards stopped cars. Seems Tesla recorded entire incident which is what is really useful not when I press brake or horn…

Hope I am making sense …thank you for replying …

If he has/had Drive Cam enabled with a USB memory stick then it will record continuously, rolling over when the card gets full.

 

[Greg Chick]

But are the triggers the same?

 

[Rivian-E]

But are the triggers the same?

There are different triggers depending on the "mode" the event was captured in. There is what is considered an "Incident" which is the stuff like honking the horn, a collision, or hard breaking.
and then there is "Motion" which is when people are around the vehicles when you are stationary.

 

[Greg Chick]

That seems to be my observation, but I have tested different levels of trigger.

 

[RoverZac]

Dash cam records continuously, while the "incident" recording is like 2 minutes before and after a certain event, if I remember right. The "Gear Guard" only records people moving near the vehicle and only in well lit areas. Even then it is suspect. I was backed into while parked, even affected the front camera... no recording.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

Thanks. The reason I am asking is that Tesla seems to be continuously recording irrespective of status of your driving. Apparently my cousin had just met with an accident when he had stopped his car on freeway because one plane landed on freeway in Cupertino, CA and another car couldn’t react on time while driving towards stopped cars. Seems Tesla recorded entire incident which is what is really useful not when I press brake or horn…

Hope I am making sense …thank you for replying …

If you have an external HD configured, the Rivian works the same way, recording all the time and saving it to the HD. Pressing the horn only saves clips to the Rivian's internal storage so that you can view them through the display. It is the same with the auto trigger upon an accident or pressing the camera icon. All you are doing is save a clip for Rivian's internal storage. It wouldn't matter if you had the HD. I could take the HD out of my car, plug it into my laptop, and watch the last 2TB of places I've driven.

 

[RoverZac]

If you have an external HD configured, the Rivian works the same way, recording all the time and saving it to the HD. Pressing the horn only saves clips to the Rivian's internal storage so that you can view them through the display. It is the same with the auto trigger upon an accident or pressing the camera icon. All you are doing is save a clip for Rivian's internal storage. It wouldn't matter if you had the HD. I could take the HD out of my car, plug it into my laptop, and watch the last 2TB of places I've driven.

Which hard drive are you using?

 

[Greg Chick]

Which hard drive are you using?

I get a "Not fast enough" failure notice no matter what flash drive I put in to either port in the console. 2 TB "High Speed" I have tried 6 different ones from $100, down. But, I get videos anyway.

 

[RoverZac]

I get a "Not fast enough" failure notice no matter what flash drive I put in to either port in the console. 2 TB "High Speed" I have tried 6 different ones from $100, down. But, I get videos anyway.

I wonder if it's the data cable, but if it's the one that came with the drive... should be sufficient. That's interesting. I'm glad you're still getting video. I was just wondering because I have some Sandisk portable SSDs collecting dust I could be using.

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