How about listing and selling a Mini VCI ?

not sure they are legal. chinese knock off's?

 

The real Mini-VCI hardware was made by XHorse. Most of the Mini-VCI hardware people are buying isn't straight from XHorse, and they're typically used to run Techstream software not straight from Toyota. Not surprising if PriusChat-the-business wants to keep a distance.

If I remember correctly (I don't have a link ATM, could be wrong), you can't even buy real Mini-VCI hardware any more, the counterfeits drove XHorse out of the business. Counterfeits are all that's left, some work better than others, they all say "Mini VCI" on the label.

For anyone who has a preference to support original engineering, I have read about success using the Tactrix Openport (it is another adapter implementing the same J2534 standard, so it could be reasonably expected to work). Tactrix (in San Francisco) still builds, documents, and supports it. (Even they face a wave of counterfeits, if you want to avoid that you basically have to buy from their website. Anything you see elsewhere may be fake, especially if the price is too good.)

Of course a preference to support domestic original R&D and production has a price, as usual; a genuine OpenPort's about $170, where the counterfeit Mini VCIs seem to be in the $20 range. (And of course if Tactrix sells you an Openport, it's not going to come with a copy of Techstream....)

-Chap

 

Reviving old thread just to mention that for me, as of October 2017, Tactrix Openport 2.0 seems to work extremely well with Techstream on my Gen 3.

-Chap