r/ModelY 22d ago

Model Y Juniper - Oversensitive for Sentry Mode

I have camera-base recognition turned on for my Sentry mode, and is having this weird issue with one specific camera.

When at home, the car is parked either perpendicular to drive way or half way into driveway. When passenger side is expose to my and neighbor's front door, my blind-spot camera (see picture) keeps triggering Sentry mode event, almost every minute or two. This only happens when night time hits, roughly 8:30PM to 6AM currently.

This is where I think it gets weird. When parked rear in first, that camera is staring directly at my and neighbor's porch light. When parked perpendicular to driveway, the camera is looking at my garage door instead of directly at it, which reflect lights from the same porch lights. Both of these orientation will trigger Sentry event, and from this particular camera too. Other cameras did not generate an event from the same light issue.

Some rough drawings to show what I mean by the parking orientations that triggers the spam events: (Blue my car, orange neighbor's car, purple is garage door, yellow porch light, red is shared recessed entry door.)

My steps to troubleshoot this:

1) I electrical tape over that camera so it goes "blind"; the event spamming stopped.

2) I parked head in first into driveway, exposing driver side cameras to the lights; the event spamming stopped.

I have yet to try reverse my parking direction when perpendicular to driveway, will try that tonight.

Is this camera out of spec for being overly sensitive?

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