Alert When Someone Tries to Open Doors Without a Key Even With Sentry Off

Alert When Someone Tries to Open Doors Without a Key Even With Sentry Off

Summary

App alert when a handle is pulled without a valid key, even with Sentry Mode off.

How It Would Work

When the car is locked and parked with Sentry Mode off, it already detects when someone presses a door handle or the trunk release, because it needs to check for a valid key (phone key, key card or fob).

The idea: if that check finds no valid key nearby, the car sends a push notification to the Tesla app instead of silently ignoring it.

Example notification:
"Door handle pulled without key – Front left door. Car still locked."

Features:
- Works with Sentry Mode off, so no cameras or continuous processing and almost no battery drain.
- Shows which door or trunk was tried, with time and location.
- Quick actions in the notification: Flash lights, Honk, or Activate Sentry Mode remotely.
- Optional setting to avoid false alarms: only notify after 2 attempts within a few minutes, or only at night.
- Can be limited to certain locations (e.g. home street parking) or disabled at home/work, like Sentry exclusions.
- Event log in the app's Security section so you can see past attempts.

Why it matters: many owners park on the street and can't leave Sentry on every night because of battery drain (and it turns off below 20%). Today, if someone tries the doors without breaking in, the owner never finds out. This gives a basic early warning for free, using hardware the car already has, and lets the owner decide whether to turn on Sentry or check the car.

Optional: Could be a Premium Connectivity feature if it needs to.

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