Can you access the 2020 Prime's cameras from home ?

I found a podcast about the latest news about EVs and hybrids in general, not specifically the Prius Prime though I had heard an episode where they talked about the Prius Prime in the past.

Recently I heard an episode which included a comment about being able to access a car's cameras from your home if you had Alexa at home and a Fire TV or Echo Show and the car has Alexa.

I was wondering if it would work with the 2020 Prius Prime which has Alexa, it would be neat to see from home what your car "sees" with it's cameras ! Anyone try this yet ?

Listen to the episode at the link below from about the 5:50 minute mark to hear a comment about accessing a car's cameras from your home if the car has Alexa in it also -

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Thanks for the input, but I remember reading that with the old Entune program I think they allowed you to access your car as far as remotely turning on the heat or A/C from your home using Alexa if I remember reading correctly. I don't think it would be done thru Bluetooth, but maybe thru your secure data connection as far as the camera access.

 

I can appreciate wanting to be careful, nothing wrong with that, but it seems there are wireless connections involved in high tech cars nowadays, like the built-in "sos" feature that notifies whatever operator if it senses the car was in a crash, and the cars with the already built-in Alexa connects to the internet. So if you want to be truly disconnected there might be several systems you might need to disconnect in order to have a regular "non-tech" car.

I also believe in being careful, but I still want to enjoy the benefits of the advanced tech they build into the cars nowadays.

 

Alexa is built-in on some models of Toyota and connects to the internet, but just wondering as I really don't know, but has there been any actual reported incidents of any customers complaining about their Toyota being hacked ?

 

Maybe it would just be the back up camera then ? I'm not sure if this ability applies to all cars with Alexa ability or just specific brands/models, the reason I asked to begin with is according to the comment in the podcast on my original post it sounds like being able to access the cameras from home was not done as a hack but simply something Alexa was able to do.

I probably need to go to that podcast web site and email the host and ask if he meant any cars with Alexa or if he was referring to just specific brands/models.

 

Definitely not referring to doing any hacking, the podcast comment mentioned in the first post makes it sound like something Alexa can do without any hacking.

 

I've seen commercials advertising Alexa in cars where it shows a person driving and asking Alexa in their car to turn on lights in their home.

 

I was not meaning to infer allowing Alexa to control driving, but from commercials I've seen it shows Alexa in the car connecting with Alexa in your home to do non-driving functions.

 

Okay thanks, maybe the comment made by the host of that podcast was only meaning to refer to accessing the cameras of specific models of cars with Alexa other than Primes and not all cars with Alexa.

 

Thanks, but it's not a big deal or anything I was originally trying to find before I heard that episode of that podcast, the thread was simply an inquiry to see if any Prius owners had been able to do what the host in that podcast mentioned. If not, that's fine, I was simply curious after hearing the comment in that podcast.