Handheld Techstream Alternative Found! (12 Viewers)
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mine finally showed up and I got the seatbelt beeps and steering wheel auto reset turned off.
Can anyone confirm they’ve used it to program key fob/cards on their LX? Can we see occupied free key slots?
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prharper
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I have two laptops with Win 11 Pro running Techstream (long story on why two); bare metal, no VM. The Dell laptop is using SW obtained on eBay. The HP laptop is running SW I obtained from where I bought the VCX Nano reader online. There both v18 but installation was different for each.
During the install and config process, I had to disable all the security controls & my antivirus. Also shut down Internet access. Once I got Techstream up and running I then moved the installer packages (reader drivers and Techstream) to a removable USB drive as a backup < antivirus software will remove those files and put into quarantine.
I have other related software on them for my Audi (VAGCOM), HAM radio programming, CHIRP etc. Funny thing is my day to day laptops for home and work are MacBook Pro's.
Queensland is great place too. Rented a diesel, manual 80 series form Hertz in Cairns many years ago and took it up north to Cooktown and back. I was then sold on Land Cruisers and the rest is history.
I've tried it. It will show you how many slots you have used and available. I could not get it to program the key fob though. It tried to do it automatically with no luck and I could not find a place to put in the PIN that came with the fob. While in the system, it looks like you can program them but it just didn't work for me. I tried on my wife's 2017 GX and my 2013 LX.
Thanks for the feedback! In my situation, I have 2 working fobs on my (new to me) 2015 LX but the card key doesn't want to work. I've researched and it seems to be the correct FCCID (HYQ14ABB) and all but even with trying 2x fresh batteries, no joy. I might still grab one of these to see if one of the slots is at least occupied by the keycard.
I'll take a stab at getting the AMD laptop going in a bit. Do you think you might be able to DM me the installers so I could try to use what you have? Thanks for sharing, its encouraging to know some people have it running bare metal, I bet the performance is much better than the M2 image.
You can probably just drive up to your favorite tire shop and ask them to read them for you for free. Then just write the codes down or take a screenshot of their reader.
I used mine to program a key fob I bought off of eBay for 40 bucks. Worked fine.
Followed the video in post #83
Handheld Techstream Alternative Found!
When we attempted programming @dudemancool1904 fob a bunch of menus popped up to do it, but weren’t labeled intuitively and seems like the guessing wrong steps might cause issues. I’ve never done this before and don’t want to mess up someone else’s ride. I’m going to try to do more YouTube...
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I chose Smart Key Registration (Classic), then it asked me to put existing key to ignition button, the car beeped, then it asked for new key to ignition button, then beeped. Easy.
Well this makes me think this thing could read them as well, it might just be buried in some other menu.
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Does anyone know if there is something like the Launch or techstream, will work in the Ineos Grenadier? My daughter has a Grenadier and the "snapping finger" sound when you exceed the speed makes the seatbelt chime not seem so bad. I checked out the Launch website and it was not helpful.
You can probably read codes that are already programmed into your system (like techstream), but I am pretty sure you can't read a set that isn't programmed to the vehicle already. Hope that makes sense.
My Launch won't arrive until next week from China.
Can this thing disable the "door open while moving" chime? So I can drive around with a Christmas tree sticking out the back, or swoop in and pick up the kids from school without coming to a stop?
I asked the dealer to do it when they disabled my seat belt chime but they said it was not possible.
I asked the dealer to do it when they disabled my seat belt chime but they said it was not possible.
That sounds like a major safety issue for the dealer, so no they won't (or probably can't) disable that ding.
You can stop the dinging when the upper tailgate is open by just snapping the latch closed. Then the truck will think it's shut. Just don't forget to unlatch it when you unload, so it works again. I do this so often (carrying lumber) that I added a small switch inside my liftgate that I can bypass the latch detection switch.
I am failing on the last step of the key fob registration:
Recognized existing key, move to next step
Recognized new key, move to next step
Per directions, set key (I assume new, tried both) to passenger seat.
Fails at this step every time.
The one thing I can't find to confirm is the "Smart Cancel is Off". No idea if this is a setting in the menus or what. I attempted with IG off, in ACC, and ON... all had same behavior. I even put a fresh battery in the unprogrammed key and I cleared all keys except master (I am not the original owner and 3 keys were registered).
This is on an '08 by the way.
Any ideas folks?
Recognized existing key, move to next step
Recognized new key, move to next step
Per directions, set key (I assume new, tried both) to passenger seat.
Fails at this step every time.
The one thing I can't find to confirm is the "Smart Cancel is Off". No idea if this is a setting in the menus or what. I attempted with IG off, in ACC, and ON... all had same behavior. I even put a fresh battery in the unprogrammed key and I cleared all keys except master (I am not the original owner and 3 keys were registered).
This is on an '08 by the way.
Any ideas folks?
I had the wrong key fob. Got the right one for my truck from the dealer, who is 25% off right now, for ~150 and it programmed first try!
Following up on this for others… if you buy an eBay fob like I did, make sure you get the codes from the original fob and the chip inside. The seller I bought from actually double checked I was buying the right one luckily.
Edit to show example. FCC-ID and Board # are important:
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