Available Remote Engine Start?

@bwilson4web will likely respond when he gets a chance. He is one of our most helpful users here.

 

You hold the button down (that's why it says "hold") and the doors lock. Shortly thereafter, the heat pump starts operating at the temperature setting you had it set to when you shut off the car.

 

I have used the button on the key fob to start the a/c, so that feature works on all models since I have a Plus. It does indeed use the settings for climate when you turned the car off ... Have not had the need to try it out for heating the car here in SoCal

 

Yeah...I told you that in post 10:

Which is why I told you about it in the first post.

That Advanced doesn't have that. Just previous setting (same as the fob), max cool or max heat.

True, but it was really you doing the attacking:

I was arguing with you because I thought I was right and I thought that particular feature is exactly what you needed to solve your problem.

 

sorry, I posted this before reading your finding on the Remote A/C.

 

Does the Remote a/c or Remote Climate work if there is no battery charge miles left?

Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.

 

No.

 

The manual is vague, see below ... my guess is it refers to the overall charge but someone might want to test it

"The system may also shut off if the charge level of the hybrid battery (traction battery) drops to low. "
"The system may not start in the following situations:
The charge level of the hybrid battery (traction battery) is low"

 

The remote climate is definitely run by the traction battery, it will not work if there isn't enough power left in the battery pack. The system will not start the engine under any circumstances. Even so, it is not considered safe to turn on the remote climate while people are inside the vehicle. So while it would be entirely possible to turn it on repeatedly overnight if you decided to sleep in your car while plugged in at a charging location, Toyota wouldn't recommend such an action. You can not crack the windows and still have remote climate work from my understanding, all windows and doors must be closed and locked (but I could be wrong on that last part, haven't really read much into it as I don't plan to camp in my car )

 

I have a 2018 Prius Prime Plus and my AC button on my factory fob works. But I did notice that it seems to ignore me for about 5 to 10 after getting done with a trip. Try waiting 10 mins before attempting to factory remote start the prime in HVAC mode. Now if you want to see something way cool I did with my prime's 3rd party remote start check this out: https://youtu.be/C0Y_tmcuLzI

 

It's not "5-10" it's 3.5, and it's one of the dumbest design decisions ever.

 

In hindsight, I feel like us Prius Premium owners got j’ipped on our Premiums… almost makes me not want to get another Prius or Toyota… I also lost remote features when they pulled the Entune app… ridiculous that they don’t allow us to have the option to upgrade to obtain the same additional features that are available in the Advanced models for remote access to climate control and such .. how hard can it be? I bet it’s just a setting on an application that one could tweak if they wanted to… oh well, live and learn I guess… and for those that said we should have got the Advanced, ya apparently so in hindsight and if I knew what I wasn’t getting I would have; so shame on me for trusting the sales person. Again, lived and now learned to do better research and not listen to the sales person as they obviously didn’t know what they were selling me and I didn’t know what the various packages were actually lacking in offering me…

 

Thanks! I’m hoping it’s similar for the 2017 model Prius Prime Premiums for the operation for remote climate aka AC from the fob … [if I knew now what I didn’t know when I bought mine, I’d have opted for the few grand more as I feel like they screwed us out of features included only in the Advanced … ]

 

I have an advanced. I never even downloaded the Prime apps.