Sentry consumes around 200W on Intel Atom and camera based detection enabled. I'd say it's a total overkill. It even heats up the display pretty good when it's relatively chilly outside.

Source: MYP 22 Intel based

Wow, yeah, that's a lot of power. And didn't they already drop it by 40% earlier this year?

No one said they had to hook the cameras up to a gaming PC. That’s an engineering choice

Even so, you shouldn't be waking all 24 cores, the GPU, etc. just to record video. Let the cameras DMA into their buffers and wake up a single core when the buffers hit a high water line. The core only needs to be awake long enough to queue up the writes to storage and then it can go back to sleep.

> Very different design goals.

From the perspective of a sentry mode: very similar design goals.