Te_FITI – Tesla Dashcam & Sentry Mode viewer for Home Assistant

Te_FITI is a Home Assistant add-on that plays Tesla Dashcam and Sentry Mode clips straight from your NAS: six-camera playback, a live telemetry HUD (speed, gear, steering, brake, blinkers, Autopilot), a GPS map, trip analysis and event metadata. It can decrypt encrypted Tesla clips (firmware 2026.20+, EncryptedClips, eCryptfs) with a one-time Tesla login; after that everything runs locally and offline.

What it does

• View Tesla dashcam / Sentry footage from a NAS (SMB share) in Home Assistant, all cameras synchronised, with per-camera fullscreen and download
• Decrypt encrypted Tesla dashcam clips (2026.20 and later): keys fetched once, stored locally, decrypted offline; single clip, batch or automatic
• Telemetry HUD extracted from the video itself (H.264 SEI): speed, gear, steering wheel, accelerator, brake, indicators, Autopilot
• Trips and analytics: drives grouped from clips, speed-coloured route map, speed chart, average and top speed, Autopilot share, braking events
• Event browser: Sentry and saved events by reason (honk, object detection, accelerometer, emergency braking), map area filter, event-moment marker
• Storage tools: free up space by category and age, keep telemetry when deleting videos, protect clips you want to keep
• Privacy: no cloud, no upload; the only Tesla contact is the one-time key fetch

Full feature list, configuration and all options: add-on documentation.

Installation

1. Settings → Add-ons → Add-on Store
2. Top right ⋮ → Repositories
3. Add this URL: https://github.com/umstandsheini/Te_FITI
4. Reload the store → install Te_FITI

Works with te_camhub

Te_FITI pairs with te_camhub, a self-hosted Tesla dashcam hub for the Raspberry Pi (a teslausb fork). They are two halves of one setup, and each also works on its own.

Tesla (USB dashcam drive)
   └─ te_camhub on a Raspberry Pi in the car: snapshots, archives, syncs to your NAS
         └─ NAS share (SMB): TeslaCam/…, decrypted/, Fahrten/*.gpx
               └─ Te_FITI (Home Assistant add-on): mounts the same share, views and analyses

	te_camhub	Te_FITI
Runs on	Raspberry Pi in the car	Home Assistant
Job	Record, archive and sync clips to the NAS, record GPX drive tracks, hold keys	Browse, decrypt, play, analyse
Talks to	The car (USB), your NAS	Your NAS only

What flows between them, all through the NAS share:

• Clips. te_camhub archives TeslaCam/… (including EncryptedClips); Te_FITI reads the same tree in place and writes decrypted copies, thumbnails and telemetry to its own decrypted/ folder.
• Drive tracks. te_camhub syncs per-drive .gpx files to a Fahrten folder (trips_subpath). Te_FITI uses them only for stretches with no video telemetry.
• Keys. If te_camhub already holds a clip's key it can place it next to the video as <video>.mp4.rawkey.json. Te_FITI imports it, so Tesla is not asked for a key that is already on the NAS.
• Event data. For encrypted Sentry/Saved folders neither project can read event.json; see the findings.

Findings about Tesla dashcam files

Things learned by reverse-engineering real footage, written up separately: Tesla dashcam findings. The hub side of the same story is in te_camhub: how Tesla encrypts dashcam clips.

• Encrypted clip format (header layout, per-page IV, wrapped key section)
• Why event.json and thumb.png in EncryptedClips cannot be read
• Sentry pre-buffer duplicates the same minutes in RecentClips and SentryClips
• How telemetry is embedded in the video, and how patchy it is

Keywords

Tesla dashcam viewer, Tesla Sentry Mode viewer, TeslaCam, decrypt Tesla dashcam 2026.20, EncryptedClips, eCryptfs, Home Assistant add-on, NAS, teslausb, dashcam telemetry HUD, SEI telemetry, Tesla dashcam GPS map.