Sentry Mode alerts on your Echo and phone.
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We guide you through Tesla, Alexa and a test at home.
Approve access on Tesla’s website, choose your car and pair its key. We check compatibility before activation.
Link Alexa and create two routines, one for Aware and one for Panic. We guide you step by step.
Connect Voice Monkey, then create an Aware routine and a Panic routine in Alexa.
Turn on phone notifications and run your home test.
Hear your Echo and check your phone. Subscribe only after both work; your dashboard confirms when protection is on.
Illustration of the Protected status and an Aware announcement on your Echo.
Test first, pay later. The home test never triggers Panic.
A gentle heads-up for Aware. Your urgent routine for Panic.
AWARE
Your Echo says a short, neutral message and your phone gets a notification, in the language you choose. It is not an alarm and not proof that someone is nearby.
PANIC
When your car reaches its alarm state, your own Alexa routine runs on your Echo and your phone is notified, day or night. Tesla handles the vehicle alarm.
Quiet hours run from 23:00 to 07:00 by default and you can change them.
No home server. Use your own Tesla, Amazon and phone accounts.
Sentry Home / one vehicle
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One vehicle, billed monthly. Cancel anytime; access lasts through your paid period.
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Requires a European Tesla account, a compatible Tesla, an Echo and supported phone notifications. Echo devices and your Tesla and Amazon services are not included.
Requires a European Tesla account, a compatible Tesla, Echo, Voice Monkey and supported phone notifications. Voice Monkey limits and possible plan costs are separate.
Your data, your account and clear limits.
Your car reports its Sentry Mode state and whether it is online. No GPS, camera footage, video or audio.
Sentry Home has no permission to lock, unlock or move your car. The virtual key only adds and removes its Sentry Mode setting.
Authorize on Tesla’s website. We never see your Tesla password, and you can disconnect from your dashboard.
Depends on connectivity and providers. Not a certified alarm or emergency service.
Compatibility, privacy and your subscription.
Sentry Home connects to Alexa through its own Alexa skill. You link it once with Connect with Alexa, and Alexa then offers two sensors, Sentry Aware and Sentry Panic. You create two routines in the Alexa app, one for each sensor (Aware and Panic), so your Echo says each alert out loud. Sentry Home cannot create or edit your Alexa routines for you.
Sentry Home has no Alexa skill of its own: announcements and your Panic routine run through your own Voice Monkey account and its Alexa skill. You create the Alexa routines yourself, and Sentry Home cannot create or edit them for you.
You choose the Echo in your Alexa routine, and setup ends with a home test that you confirm by ear. Sentry Home does not publish a list of supported Echo models, so run the test on the device you plan to use. Sentry Home cannot see your routines or confirm that an Echo spoke, which is why the test matters.
Sentry Home does not poll your car’s location or wake the car to check on it. It collects only Sentry Mode and connectivity signals. How much power Sentry Mode itself uses is set by Tesla, not by Sentry Home.
Sentry Home runs on a server, not on your home network. Your Echo needs its own internet connection to speak, so an announcement cannot be heard while it is offline. Phone notifications do not depend on your Echo or your home Wi-Fi. Your car must also be online to report, and your dashboard shows its connection status. Alerts depend on connectivity and providers: treat Sentry Home as an extra alert, not a guarantee.
No. Aware is a signal received from Sentry Mode, not an alarm or proof that someone is nearby. Panic follows your car’s alarm state and runs your own routine. Sentry Home is not a certified alarm or emergency service and cannot guarantee delivery. Tesla handles the vehicle alarm.
Your email, your Tesla authorization, the names and VINs of the vehicles on your Tesla account, your Alexa connection and alert settings, your phone’s notification address and your last 30 activity entries. Stored encrypted on a server in Germany. You can delete your account from your dashboard once any subscription has ended.
Your email, your Tesla authorization, the names and VINs of the vehicles on your Tesla account, your Voice Monkey token and alert settings, your phone’s notification address and your last 30 activity entries. Stored encrypted on a server in Germany. You can delete your account from your dashboard once any subscription has ended.
You authorize access on Tesla’s website. Your Tesla password is never shared with Sentry Home. We ask for vehicle data access without location or remote-command permissions; your car reports only its Sentry Mode state and whether it is online. No GPS, camera footage, video or audio.
Tesla lets a car accept a reporting setup from a third-party app only when that app’s virtual key is paired with the car. Sentry Home uses the key only to add and remove its Sentry Mode setting; our Tesla access still has no command permissions. Sentry Home has no permission to lock, unlock or move your car. Older Model S and Model X without virtual key support use the car’s third-party data streaming setting instead.
A monthly subscription for one vehicle, at the price shown above, paid on Stripe. The final price is shown before any payment, and there is no free trial. Cancel anytime with Manage subscription in your dashboard: access lasts until the end of the period you paid for. Consumers can also withdraw from the contract within 14 days of subscribing, with the withdrawal function in the dashboard. Echo devices and your Tesla and Amazon services are not included.
A monthly subscription for one vehicle, at the price shown above, paid on Stripe. The final price is shown before any payment, and there is no free trial. Cancel anytime with Manage subscription in your dashboard: access lasts until the end of the period you paid for. Consumers can also withdraw from the contract within 14 days of subscribing, with the withdrawal function in the dashboard. Voice Monkey plans, Echo devices and your Tesla and Amazon services are not included.
In your dashboard, Disconnect Tesla removes the Sentry Mode setting from your car and stops alerts. You can also delete your account and its saved settings there, once any subscription has ended. The access you granted and the virtual key stay with Tesla until you remove them in your Tesla account and in the car.
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An independent service, run by the seller named at the foot of this page. It has no Alexa skill of its own: announcements and your Panic routine run through your own Voice Monkey account and its Alexa skill. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tesla, Amazon or Voice Monkey.
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This is the last received state, not a live camera view.
Saved rules are not proof of delivery. An accepted service result does not prove that an Echo spoke or a phone received a notification.
Push only during these hours. Echo outside them.
Panic bypasses quiet hours.
Authorize vehicle data on Tesla’s website, choose your car, then pair its key. No location or remote commands.
Stored encrypted, used only to deliver your alerts.
Pair the key in the Tesla app, then come back here. Sentry Home checks your car once by itself; Check my car runs it again. Read-only: no commands or location.
Connect Alexa, turn on phone notifications, then test both.
Set this up once in Voice Monkey and Alexa, then save the two separate targets here.
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This only updates the fields on this page. Nothing is saved until you press Save home setup.
Sentry Home for Alexa
Not linkedLink your Amazon account once. Alexa then finds two sensors that report your car’s Sentry Mode events to your own routines.
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You sign in on Amazon. Sentry Home never sees your Amazon password.
Missing sensors or no sound? Check Alexa
Sentry Home does not create routines for you. They stay in your Alexa app, where you can change them at any time.
Choose separate Aware and Panic targets, then save.
Enable the Voice Monkey skill with the Amazon account you use in the Alexa app. Create a Speaker for Aware and a separate Routine Trigger for Panic, then connect each to its own Alexa routine.
Official Voice Monkey guide (opens in a new tab)Recommended: Alexa speaks through two Routine Triggers. No Speaker or Flow is needed. Name them “Sentry Home Aware” and “Sentry Home Panic”, or reuse two distinct triggers you already have.
This routine uses Alexa’s own speech action. Do not add an “open Voice Monkey” action. Aware and Panic must have different Routine Trigger IDs.
When nothing is heard, check these first: the event is under “VM Speakers”, the skill launch is the last action in the Echo’s language, “From” is the Echo that should speak, and the routine is enabled.
This is a demo. No real phone is registered here. Use the Test step to simulate the combined receipt.
2. YOUR PHONE
Phone alerts. No extra app.
Optional. Alexa is linked, so alerts already reach your Echo. You can also get alerts on this phone, or continue without it.
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Your saved alerts currently go to ntfy, which requires a subscription in the ntfy app. Enable Sentry Home notifications on your phone to switch. Previous settings are kept until you confirm the new home test.
Install Sentry Home on this iPhone first. Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
Tests your Aware Speaker and phone. Never Panic.
Test Panic runs your Panic routine, which can be loud. It is separate from the home test and not needed to finish setup.
Check that your Echo speaks and your phone receives the test.
Alexa accepting a test does not prove that your Echo spoke. Check the Aware routine before confirming the home test.
Reconnect only if sensors are missing or the connection needs attention. This opens Amazon again without disconnecting first.
“Accepted by Voice Monkey” does not mean heard. Confirm only after your Echo speaks and the phone notification arrives.
“Accepted by Voice Monkey” does not mean heard: the request arrived, but only your Alexa routine makes the Echo speak. Follow these steps in order and change one thing at a time.
Confirm the home test only after you hear the Echo and receive the notification. Official troubleshooting (opens in a new tab)
A short announcement when Sentry Mode enters Aware. Not a theft confirmation.
Your separate alarm routine and a phone notification.
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Pair the key first. Vehicle synchronization may take time.
The price does not include any Voice Monkey plans. The connection is not a certified alarm.
API acceptance is not device receipt. A device acknowledgment includes the return network trip and does not prove that you read the alert or heard your Echo.
Vehicle signal times show when Sentry Home received the state, not when a camera captured it. Other rows show when the service recorded that activity. Times use this device’s time zone. Aware is not an alarm or proof that someone is still nearby; returning to Armed does not prove the area is clear.
SIMULATION ONLY
No real events. No external sirens, announcements or push notifications.
Service problem is available once the setup is complete.
Consumers can withdraw from the subscription contract within 14 days of subscribing, without giving a reason. We confirm your withdrawal by email and reply within 14 days about ending the subscription and any refund due. Nothing is canceled or refunded automatically.
This withdraws from the Sentry Home subscription of this account. The confirmation goes to the email address you sign in with.
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