Idatalink Maestro Info

Got the fix. Turns out the Maestro master reset isn’t actually a reset, more of a restart. Got the TPMS back and no functionality lost from doing the reset.

 

I guess mine isn't working as well as I thought. Everything seems to be displaying correct information except for the tire pressure. The temps seem to be correct (as far as I know) as they will all read within a few degrees of each other, and they change when driving vs parked. But each tire is reading 50psi exactly on the screen. My tires are inflated properly to 65psi, and I just checked each of them with a manual gauge. I am not finding a place in the settings to adjust those parameters the way that I did with the fuel level. I could speculate all day about what might be causing that, but I am admittedly ignorant of how the different components interrelate, so I am not sure where the problem is. Any ideas?

 

maybe the sensors are limited at 50?? You could try airing down one of them to see if it’ll read below that.

 

Good idea. I will try that.

 

I had the TPMS displaying on my '17 before I did my amp/sub upgrade. After disconnecting the positive of the battery to do the wiring, the TPMS now shows like yours. I have tried the master reset and still nothing. I thought it may take a bit to reset but still nothing as of this morning.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance

 

The only other thing I can think of is trying a reflash. Could be worth a call to idatalink as well.

 

I’ve had this happen. It always fixes itself in a day or so. Might help to validate the PIDs in your HU settings.

 

I went out and messed around in the HU settings and found a setting "OBD Always On" and turned that to on, reset the Maestro, validated the PID's and it is working again.
Maybe when I disconnected the battery, the HU turned off the OBD. But the gauges worked.
Either way, it is now working like it is supposed to.
Thanks guys. I'll feel better towing my trailer from NC to CO starting Sunday now!

 

So, I have a 2007 dc. It has no steering wheel controls, but my kenwood is compatable with this. Do I just need the Maestro RR?

 

The Maestro RR serves two purposes: 1- steering wheel controls interface and 2- ODBII to H/U interface. If you want to have the ODBII info app capability, then yes, you need the Maestro RR. BUT, you will need one or two more items as well. Not sure which H/U you are going to be installing, but you will require an iDatalink harness. The iDatalink harness will serve two purposes: 1- it connects the Maestro RR to your Kenwood H/U and, 2- it has all of the required Toyota OEM plugs to connect your Kenwood H/U to all of your Toyota harness plugs. In fact, you can use the iDatalink harness completely independent of the Maestro RR as a standalone harness (even though there are cheaper options out there). Regardless, you will have to go the the iDatalink website and plug in your truck's info to verify that they have the harness that you will require for your model year.

If you have any OEM USB ports attached to your factory H/U, you will need a USB adapter. If you have sat/GPS attached to your factory H/U, you will need an adapter for at least the satellite antenna (presumably, your Kenwood H/U has a GPS antenna included which will be better than the factory antenna). Also, and finally, you may need a power antenna adapter for the radio. Not sure if you Tundra has the power antenna but, if so, it is NOT plug and play with aftermarket H/U's.

 

Thanks. My kemwood headunit, a ddx6904s, has been installed for some time. I m just now thinking about the Maestro. With no steering wheel controls I will have fewer options, but will at least take advantage of some of the options in headunit. I need a T01 or a RT01 t-harness. That s the only other item the website says I need. And I have no power antenna

 

If you have no power "boosted" antenna, and no OEM USB-H/U connected port, and no need for satellite radio, then, yes, the harness is all that you would need. I will say this though: I was excited about the idea/concept of the Maestro before I got it. Now that I have had it installed for a couple of months, it's more of a "meh" item. The best thing about it, IMHO, was how easy the iDatalink harness made the installation of the H/U.

 

So much of my headunit has been grayed out. At least I will gain more functionality.

 

Hey guys,
I am new here and just had my 2018 Tundra outfitted with a Kenwood DMX 1057XR and maestrorr2 unit. Steering wheel control works and everything is fine. However I have some issues with my Kenwood system. I don't have tire pressure monitoring on my system and gauges don't work either. That must be a configuration in Maestro right?
I didn't install it myself, I had a place install it all. When I drove off their lot i got a message, speed sense cable not hooked up. What's that all about. Is this through obd? or does it come from somewhere else. It would be nice to have, because i can set up that my front cam i have installed as well turns on and off at certain speeds. Makes it perfect to activate during parking speed. Also the compass on the kenwood is not working either. I bought a siruxxm module, I don't know if this one retains factory or is thrid party.

Does anyone have experience with that. Should I be able to see my tire pressure, compass, gauges and door open via the kenwood receiver? Supposedly there is a way to flash the maestrorr2 unit via phone and bluetoot, but looks like the app is not available yet. Is it possible to connect to the maestrorr2 via Bluetooth on a laptop or do i have to remove everything to get to it?

Thanks....

 

Look at the OBD port and see if anything is plugged in. You should see a single wire that runs from the OBD plug to the Maestro harness. If nothing is plugged in that would explain why you have no gauges or TPMS readings.

 

Hi,

sorry forgot to mention that. There is something plugged in. The only thing i see at the gauge display is battery voltage but nothing else....
I did some reading and what it looks like, the speed sense cable is a separate wire and doesn't come in over OBD.

 

I just checked, the OBD plug to the radio has three wires. Red, yellow and the other is maybe purple/white or something. Couldnt really make it out as it was to dark and I had no flashlight. I can check tomorrow with another obd scanner tool if my OBD port works. It used to be.
But will double check and then go from there. I doubt that it is a problem on the car side.

If I could get the gauges and vehicle info (TPM) to work, would be awesome. But the company who installed it, is not very competent. I told them to run the wires for the 3 programmable outputs somewhere, where I can get to it, without taking the car apart.

The installer and sales guy wouldn't belive me that the RR2 has a port for outputs you can program yourself. He tried to basically tell me I am an idiot, as all the cables are hooked up to the stereo. I better hope they didn't hook up the programmable outputs to the stereo. i will go back there tomorrow...

By any chance, how do I program the RR2? Do i need any special communication cable or is it just a regular USB from my PC? What plug does the RR2 have to be programmed?

 

Try going to the setup/settings menu in the HU. Click on AV tab then Maestro settings then Gauges then Validate PIDs. You may also need to adjust the setting allowing the HU to communicate with the truck. That should also be on the Maestro settings page.

 

I don't see any of these settings. maybe they are somewhere else on my HU? I see some maestero settings but everything is ticked. I cant change any PIDs...

Battery voltage just works because the headunit itself reads the voltage. Even with OBD unplugged I still see the voltage.

 

Sounds like they may have changed the menus. I have an older Kenwood unit. Maybe @BamaMan44 or @PWMDMD can help. I think they recently installed the same HU.

 

That would be awesome, as I really have doubt about the competence level of the install crew. Do you know anyone who has experience with the Maestro RR2 and its configuration?

 

1. I too got the same warning about speed sensor not hooked up even though I'm sure it was spliced into the harness. It doesn't seem to affect anything.

2. I do NOT have anything plugged into my OBD-2 port and I'm getting tire pressure, RPM, speed, load, voltage, etc. The only issue is when I look at tire pressure my front and rear right wheels are flipped from what the readout is on the instrument panel - front is rear and rear is front. I have not really looked into this although I did reset the TPMS sensors and it didn't help

3. I have not found where to input custom PIDs although again other than looking quickly through the menus I haven't really put much effort into this yet. It may be a "hidden" menu.

4. I think it's a USB to USB-C cord and you can download the utility from iDatalink. Plug the cord into the Maestro and your computer and simply follow directions. There are Youtube videos on how to do this. For the RR2 you can do the initial setup on a Mac or Windows but I think I read to program the custom button settings you need a Windows machine. Look up 5-Star Installer Diaries on Youtube. They cover all this stuff including some Tundra projects. I can get my head unit out now in under 3 mins. Also, when I tried to flash my DSR-1, not any old USB to USB-C cord will do...I had 3 or 4 sitting around and only one worked to flash but they were all working cords. If I remember correctly, the one provided with the Maestro has a bulge in the wire that must do something special - the ones that did not work did not have this bulge.

 

When I flashed the Maestro I just answered the questions they asked and when I got to the part where you can assign steering wheel controls I left the standard settings which were already there. The relevant part starts at 7:30 in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC5sHuGOwOs

 

I have a kenwood dnx997xr and I installed a couple weeks. I had several options not being displayed via the maestro. I had to go into the head unit and tell it to re-sync with my truck. All options are now displayed.

‘my truck as well had the tire pressure reading at the wrong locations. Go to the vehicle info screen (battery voltage, check engine, tire pressure). Click small icon labeled setting. Scroll down to assign tpms sensors. Takes about 5 mins. Mine was drivers front, rear, passenger front, rear-when picking the order of the deflate inflate.

 

Thank you, Sir!

 

Hi there,

seems like the spliced into the obd rather than plugging it in. I might do the same myself later on. The speed sensor helps you if you have a navigation unit and you loose gps, for example in a tunnel, it kinda calculates where you are based on speed. In my case i really want the speed sensor to work as i have installed a front facing camera. I have it set up to turn on automatically at low speeds and turn off again if it goes over a certain mph limit. This would make it easy when I am parking to see the front of my car. I have to get in a lot of tight spaces for work and this would be very helpful.

Does anyone know what the parking brake signal does? Does it show you a warning when your parking brake is engaged and you try do drive off. I have to test this today if its even hooked up. They did a shitty job installing it.

 

Can you tell me where the re-sync is on your vehicle? I cant find anything in my menus. Mine is probably a little bit different from yours but still should have the capability or not?

 

Parking brake wire can be manipulated to allow you access to all menus while the vehicle is in gear/moving. I believe it’s only use is for the lockout feature.

 

I can see that for parking position but parking brake? Thats a lot to ask. I barely ever set the parking brake on flat ground. SO i just got off the phone with Kenwood and also Idatalink. It looks like the problem is in maestro. Both actually tell me the same. Usually companies point fingers at each other. So now i have to get the install company to fix it. Hope they don't want to keep the truck forever again...
I also have to teach them, that there are programmable outputs, which they don't know about obviously and i don't even have the harness for it...

 

I would reflashed the unit myself. It’s super easy once you download the free program from maestro. That way you can do it yourself. Just make sure you change mute to mute. Default is something weird. There is video on YouTube that shows exactly how to program the outputs. I just have original not the new version you have. Funny enough I have key command I put in that doesn’t do anything-digital temp controls. I was hoping it would give me the ability. Sadly no