ECO Dashboard explained, decoded, reverse engineered, and icon triggers revealed.

Let me just start by saying that Toyota snuck in better descriptions of the ECO Challenge Trophies that confirm my 5 years of decoding observations. Also, I need help nailing down the last three triggers. This is for Toyota vehicles with SOS feature that uses a built in cellphone that can call in data for the Entune ECO Dashboard that shows various icons triggered by reaching unknown driving related metric. Unknown until now...


The Sheep are triggered by MPG values of 120 and 140. This was the first trigger that I sniffed out of my observations.

MPG 120 = 1 Sheep -> MPG 140 = 2 Sheep


The farthest hill has 2 stages of coverings, bushes and trees, and is triggered by an Eco Score of 70 and 80 respectively. I could not get this trigger for the longest time, until I saw here on PriusChat that the Hill had a bushy covering in between the default grass and tree covering. Then the triggers popped out of the data.

Eco Score 70 = bushes on last hill -> Eco Score 80 = trees on last hill


The fruit tree white flower and orange icons are triggered by the percentile ranking for both MPG and Eco Score percentile above 40 and 20. Note, percentile number less than or equal to 40 and 20 on your way to TOP. To see your percentile ranking you must click/touch the Ranking Summery box for either category from the ECO Dashboard and note the current month percentile number on graph at top of page. The clue that got me thinking percentile was the in-app definition of ECO Warrior which mentioned maintaining 20th percentile in either Ranking or MPG. This is the only trigger that can activate both ways without driving your Prius. Depending on the other participants you can move into/out of percentile trigger numbers and your fruit tree will seem to have a mind of it’s own.

Eco Ranking for both MPG and Eco Score percentile 40 or above = white flowers in tree ->
Eco Ranking for both MPG and Eco Score percentile 20 or above = oranges in tree.


I suspected that the Sun and Rainbow triggers were a sub-category of miles driven. But then as I was writing about each discovery, I saw how they were so closely tied to the ECO Challenge Trophies. Leading me to suspect that the Sun and Rainbow are tied to the Mobile Wizard trophy, which is triggered by viewing you ECO Dashboard repeatedly. I was able to trigger a lonely Sun on my son’s barren ECO Dashboard by accessing/refreshing the Dashboard 6 times in 5 hours. The Rainbow came the next day with 8 refreshes over 3.5 hours.
NEED HELP:
When the new month starts please write down date and times of accessing/refreshing the ECO Dashboard and be aware of family members that could log on and add data points to your experiment. Let’s see how long it takes PriusChat members to solve my 5+ year question of what exactly triggers the Sun and Rainbow.
So, I’m guessing that Sun & Rainbow are triggered by accessing/refreshing the ECO Dashboard x times with an y minute timeout between accessing/refreshing counting.


I suspect that the Tulips to the right of the fruit tree are triggered by 4 consecutive months of finishing with 4 full trophies. The Tulips show up on the first day of the 5th month and also trigger ECO Status level SILVER and 2nd level of Eco Status Trophy.
NEED HELP:
Can you tigger just one Tulip and what exactly triggers each Tulip?


I suspect that ECO Status GOLD is impossible to obtain after 5+ years of efficient driving and trying. If Silver is 4 consecutive months of 4 trophies, then Gold should be 8 or 12 consecutive months of 4 full trophies.
NEED HELP:
How many months of 4 full trophies have you managed?
What else could trigger ECO Status GOLD?

 

I watched (and saved screenshots) my wife finish in top 20th percentile in both MPG and ECO Score for the first 4 months and the Bronze level stayed until first day in month 5. So, how many months of top 20th percentiles did you keep track of and how long did it take to get back to Silver level HPrimeAdvanced?

 

In picture below you can see the ECO Challenge box in lower right. In your Entune app click/touch that box to see ECO Challenge Trophies. and click/touch the trophies to show the Toyota provided information for each trophy.

Sun and Rainbow triggers are in red and have question mark at end because I need help with the exact number of logons and any timeout between logons. Also, can you get just one tulip?
I could not edit first post to include picture but here it is;

 

So it took 20 (3+ min apart) refresh/updates of the ECO Dashboard to trigger the Sun and Rainbow. The Sun appeared after 11th refresh/update and the Rainbow appeared after 20th refresh/update. Now I get to update my trigger-key picture.

Raw data; refresh/update at 12:28, 12:32, 12:44, 12:49, 12:54, 12:59, 1:16, 1:20, 1:24, 1:27, 1:37 (Sun triggered), 1:50, 1:57, 2:01, 2:05, 2:13, 2:19, 2:27, 2:32, 2:37 (Rainbow triggered)