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this thread to share the status of adding Toyota BZ4X support to Sidecar.

Hi @Jefbos90 were you able to test Sidecar with your Toyota yet?

at the moment i have an old iphone 11. my phone is broken. iphone 16 pro is ordered. i can't see well what happened and what didn't.

Ah no worries!

Hi Jeff, testing is started on my old phone!

Sidecar thinks that my bz4x is a highlander

Which country was your vehicle produced in? I'll need to find some reference VINs for the bz4x to try to zero in on why your VIN is getting decoded as a Highlander.

jeff wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 3:15 am

Which country was your vehicle produced in? I'll need to find some reference VINs for the bz4x to try to zero in on why your VIN is getting decoded as a Highlander.

Where can i find it ?
must be one of these
Motomachi-fabriek in Toyota (Japan)
GAC Toyota-fabriek in Guangzhou (China)
Tianjin FAW Toyota-fabriek in Tianjin (China)

Despite the lack of connectivity settings, I was able to test the travel log quite a bit.

This actually works perfectly.

Keep track of exactly where and at what time I have been, together with the OBD link.

Times are correct,
Speed ​​is correct, waiting times are correct. It also works well if you don't physically turn it on yourself
it looks like this is working well.

I did have an error in the map once. this was a one-off.

texts on the card had a square instead of letters.

I've added your BZ4X's VIN to the Sidecar offline decoding matrix, so it should correctly decode again in the next Sidecar release (shipping early next week). You might need to remove the vehicle and re-add it for it to pick up the change.

Jefbos90 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 8:06 am

texts on the card had a square instead of letters.

This rendering issue is unfortunately a bug in Apple Maps that I've yet to find a workaround for. I have a bug report open with Apple but will keep looking to see if there's a workaround for this.