LED tail light bar

What do you mean connect? For the rear brake light like LE vs XLE? Did anyone open the trunk to check if the hardware is even there?

 

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There is usually a Japanese company that creates these type of teardowns whenever a new Prius is launched. I have the DVD for the 2016 to 2022 model.

They can ship the USA.

 

Interesting. The first sentence seems to suggest that the kit includes instructions to allow video display on the infotainment screen(even while driving). But I wonder if that's just a mistranslation with the apps I'm using.

 

I think in Japan there were people playing videos on the screens from one of the reviews I saw but it seemed odd

 

Europe manual says it can play videos from USB sticks. And there's a centre-console HDMI port available as an accessory in Japan.

What they're describing could just be a bypass of the "no video while driving" check - if that's just disconnecting the "speed" input, could have other side effects, like interfering with navigation.

 

This DVD series is just for very very basic tear down of panels that you would want to access if you were to be performing any modifications to interior body panels. It isn't a comprehensive guide to tearing down the engine or the hybrid electrical system.

It does show you how to access almost all of the cabin's interior parts except the headliner and the panel to the firewall. Everything else you can piece together and be able to modify your car with this DVD.

 

You can also use a carplay dongle like the Ottobox to play Videos, Netflix, Youtube. I've tested it and it works perfectly.

 

I don't want to pull this thread too off track, but I just discovered it was pretty easy to trick my car into playing videos(at least YouTube videos). There's a free app for android phones to repackage YouTube for Android Auto. No hacking or jailbreaking needed for either my phone or the car. 75% of the screen gets devoted to the video, while the far 25% stays as nav. I assume there's something similar out there for iPhones and Apple CarPlay. There are risks because you can't get the apps through official channels(Google and Apple don't want liability issues for something like this), but there seems to be a couple safe(ish) options out there.

(I "watch" a lot of videos that are actually almost completely audio. Maybe a quick glance to the screen every once in awhile. Now I can play them and have my phone in the charger at the same time.)

 

Which app did you have success with?

 

I used the AAAD installer and CarStream as the YouTube player. There's also Fermata Auto as an alternative to CarStream. At first glance, I liked the layout of CS better as it's closer to the YouTube desktop look I'm used to. It's not perfect by any means, but it seems to be working ok. Because I'm choosing to basically use a desktop view, the buttons are pretty small for fat fingers. It also locks up from time to time. It doesn't lock up the full infotainment system, just the player. Seems to happen most often if I quickly go to full screen while the app is still buffering the video.