The manual on page 241 has a table of customizable features. One column is the multimedia display, the next is multi-info display, and the last is dealer. There are several dealer only features that may or may not be useful. I imagine a trip to the dealer would do it-maybe the first one would be free, but if you changed your mind, etc, I bet they would charge for subsequent visits. Does Carista cover all these dealer only custom features? Thanks. edit: corrected original post, the table actually starts on page 541 of the 2026 manual.
Can you post a photo of page 40? Carista doesn't do much other than try to trick you into a monthly subscription with contrived and mostly worthless "features." Here at Priuschat we want to figure out how to access dealer only features so DIY folks can avoid their money making scams. Specifically Toyota moved to the newer Global Techstream (GTS / GTS+) platform for recent vehicles, and dealer-level functions in 2024 and are increasingly gated behind the GTS+ / dealer tooling, subscriptions and authenticated interfaces — so the old “download hacked Techstream + cheap VCI” approach that worked for many older Prius will be of limited use. Some professional scan-tool makers (Autel, Launch, OTC, LAUNCH GTS bundles) advertise “OE-level” Toyota support, but true authenticated programming usually requires dealer credentials or a paid OEM subscription. If you'd like to help us figure this out please research the offerings of scan-tool makers and try them out and report back. Also find out about GTS+ subscription options or legitimate J2534 packages (and confirm NASTF/registration requirements). Also see if you can find independent shops that advertise GTS+ access and report back on that too! As in we want to help people avoid trips to the Toyota Stealerships as much as possible and we need everyone's help to figure this out. Maybe @ChapmanF has some thoughts on the subject?
Worth checking if dealer adjusted settings "evaporate" if the 12 volt battery's disconnected. And if so, look into memory savers.
Technical library access - including use of GTS+ - is 5 euros for an hour or 25 euros for a day in Europe. Seems pretty reasonable to me, at least compared to whatever a dealer would charge you for anything. Probe I use with it is the Tactrix OpenPort 2.0 - don't recall what I paid for it, but it's something like $170. Not prohibitive on the scale of car expenses, I think. And you get the confidence that you can do almost anything to the car that the dealer can. Exception might be not being able to get access to some software/ECU updates.
Anyone got a list of Gen 5 features? I can check them out in Techstream and pull the PIDs so we can add support in the Dr. Prius App.
I purchased a phone app for my MINI (BMW), named something like BimmerCode, or similar. It worked great, wasn't expensive, and allowed you to customize car settings like fobbing the windows down and up, light behavior, make the auto-off persistent, etc. A nicety. edit: On a previous MINI, I used some kind of BMW "like" thing that was quite complex. There was always a concern of bricking the car. Although I recall I did manage to add satellite radio capability by changing the package of factory options. Scary though.
In the US, the shortest subscription available is two days (but still pretty reasonable compared to what a dealer would charge, especially if you imagine troubleshooting some problem that makes you use the tooling repeatedly in those two days). Last I knew, only the "security professional" subscription involved checking for a NASTF Vehicle Security Professional registration. Same subscription price as the normal pro diagnostic subscription, but also lets you do security-threatening things, like registering new fobs without an already registered old one. I don't think you need VSP to do more normal things, even like registering a new fob as long as you have a working old one.
2-day* Professional Diagnostic subscription recently went up to $80. Does most everything except programming ECUs and new keys. *actually more like 3-day; it expires on the 3rd midnight(don't recall if PST or local time), so you can get most/all of a third day if you purchase it early in the morning
One thing, the way the car came, no interior lights come on when you unlock the car, or even when you open the door. My MINI lit up like a Christmas Tree. The little button with the led that makes the interior light come on with opening a door is not acting consistently for me-also having even a little led on like constantly is a tiny parasitic draw, no. There are dealer only accessible customizations that could be helpful:
I have an update, lol, after experimenting in a dark garage. If I push that little "door" button, and light up its green led, not only will a door opening light up the dome lights, but when you approach the car with a fob in your pocket, open the door with the handle or unlock the door with a fob, the interior lights will come on. For a preset time, adjustable on the multimedia display. So, it's not as bad as I thought, with the little green led. It's probably worse since it's listening for fob transmissions, lol.
