Hello, I am Professor John Kelly, and this is the Weber Auto YouTube channel. I am very excited
today to show you a new feature that Tesla has just released with their latest firmware update
you can take a screenshot of the center screen and save it to your computer. Now this requires access
to Tesla's diagnostic software, the toolbox software which is not free, but once you have
access to that software you can take screenshots in just the regular user interface mode any of the
service mode screens or panels and in service mode plus, so here are some examples of screenshots
that I've taken on our 2018 Model 3 back here, and our 2022 model Y, and it just has incredible
detail now why is this a big deal why am I nerding out about this because I'm a teacher
I teach classes on Tesla electric vehicles and other electric vehicles in the hybrid and electric
vehicle boot camps that I offer every year and I'm constantly having to either myself or with an
assistant take photographs of the screens on the Tesla vehicles for diagnostics for familiarization
and so on and the the photographs almost always don't turn out uh like you want and you have to
go back in and edit the photographs to straighten them out and get the color right and everything
else and so now it's just easy to do once you have the toolbox software so to gain access to
the toolbox software if you'll just go to service. tesla.com, as you can see here on this screen and
then there's a diagnostics link you click on that and diagnostic software and you can see the price
for using it for a day a month or a year. In an educational institution like this we buy it
for an entire year because we use it all the time and if you are running an independent repair shop
that's probably your best way to go also but once you have access to the Tesla toolbox software and
there are instructions on how to configure the software to run on Google Chrome and you need
an ethernet cable and an adapter on some vehicles to connect Toolbox to your vehicle uh newer Teslas
are going to be coming with the 16 pin data link connector just like any other vehicle but for
now we've got the model 3 right here behind me I've got a five-pin connector that plugs in and on
the Model Y it's just a regular RJ45 ethernet connector okay let's see how to get into Toolbox 3
and find the procedure to run to take those screenshots and save them to your computer so as
you can see here I have the Tesla toolbox software open to the main screen, we need to connect to the
vehicle, so we have an ethernet cable plugged into the laptop and then plugged into the vehicle and
step on the brake pedal to turn the car on so next, we need to connect the toolbox software to
the vehicle so we'll click on connect to vehicle click on Connect we are connected notice right
down here there's a button that says Exit service mode plus so that tells us that we are in service
mode plus, and there are three different modes of operation that we can take these screenshots in
we have service mode plus that we're in right now and then we have service mode, and then we
can exit out of both of those service modes but stay connected, and now we'll come over here to
the actions tab and click on actions and up here in the search box, we will type screenshot. The new
procedure that was just released with the latest firmware update is this middle one right here
the CID Center information display screenshot. So I'm going to click on that; it brings up a window
telling us that it's going to take a screenshot and return the screenshot so I will click on run
it's running the routine has finished it is showing us the screenshot that it took and we
have a button right here that reads download image so I'll click on download image, it goes right to my
Chrome through my Chrome browser to my downloads folder and I can click on that and open it here's
that screenshot okay if we come back to our little vehicle connection green circle on
the screen and click on that if we come down to exit service mode Plus us so now let's go back to
our screenshot procedure we'll run it again notice now we are in just regular service mode, so we'll
download that one now if we go to the car go to the touchcreen of the car push and hold our finger
on exit service mode. Now we're back to the user interface screen the regular screen that anybody
that drives the vehicle can see and we'll come back up to our screenshot procedure, we'll have
it run one more time, and here is our downloaded image again of the user interface screen now of
course you can do this on any screen you need to have a vehicle connection and then whatever screen
you have showing, run this Center information display screenshot procedure and then save it
to your computer and you got it, so for me, as a teacher that really is going to save me a lot of
time we normally would have to take a whole bunch of photographs and edit the photographs
and put them in the worksheets that I have for these Tesla vehicles and the Tesla's firmware
is changing all the time so the worksheet that I had designed and was working perfect previously
now is different because they changed something on one of the panels in service mode or just on
the screen itself, so I'm constantly updating these worksheets, so it's kind of a Love-Hate relationship
I really like the car and I really like the capabilities in the software.
As Tesla is improving their serviceability for anybody, there are do-it-yourself clinics. there's
free access to the service information for anybody now and then anybody that's serious about doing
more than just basic stuff on the cars as as far as repairs can get this diagnostic
software which gives you even more capabilities and this screenshot is one thing that I asked
for. Several months ago I had somebody from Tesla contact me and say hey we noticed you
use this software in your classes you're posting online about it you made a video about this. I made
a video about the Toolbox 3 software in November of 2021, and the guy I spoke with said they use
that video to help improve the toolbox software because back then, once you connected to the car
you didn't know what to do, so it's like now what what do I do now? So I gave them all kinds of
feedback on what I thought they could do to improve the toolbox software, and they've they've
done almost every single thing that I've suggested including, and I begged for this screenshot shot
capability, finally just two days ago uh added this screenshot functionality and so thank you to
the great people at the Tesla toolbox software and Tesla Service mode people and that and
everybody at Tesla that is really making an effort to make these vehicles serviceable by
more than just the Tesla Service Centers by independent repair facilities and
allowing us as Educators to teach students how these cars work, how to diagnose and repair
them. All right well thank you for watching have a good [Music] [Applause] day [Music]
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