YouTube in Tesla in motion

What you can do with YouTube

• YouTube in motion on the Tesla screen

  Channels, playlists, subscriptions and search on the Tesla screen.

• Send a link by QR

  Send a YouTube link with a QR code.

• Fullscreen YouTube in motion

  Play fullscreen on the Tesla theater screen without the usual browser chrome.

YouTube on the Tesla screen

Watching while you drive is unsafe. Use it only when it is legal and you can keep your attention on the road. Passengers watch. The driver watches the road.

How YouTube in motion works

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   What CyberTube is

   CyberTube plays YouTube on the Tesla screen the car already has. It is a web app inside CyberDash. You open it in the native Tesla browser, on the front screen and on the rear screen. You do not add a Fire Stick, an HDMI box, a phone mount, or any other device. The same page can stay on the screen after the car leaves the parking spot.

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   Start while parked

   While the car is parked, YouTube is available as soon as you sign in. Open the browser, open CyberTube, and play. A Pro plan unlocks video in motion, so that same playback can stay available while the car is moving. You do not close the page when you put the car in gear. You do not switch apps. You do not turn on a separate motion mode. The session you started while parked is the session that can continue on the road. Watching while you drive is unsafe. Use it only when that is legal and you can keep your attention on the road. Passengers can watch. The driver watches the road.

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   What “in motion” means

   In motion means the car is no longer parked. The wheels are turning: you are in town, on a highway, stopped in traffic, or moving again, and YouTube can still be on the Tesla display. Channels, search, subscriptions, playlists, and fullscreen are the same as when the car was parked. It is still your YouTube account. CyberTube is not YouTube Premium and does not replace that login. Nothing new has to be installed because the car started moving.

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   Front and rear screens

   On the front screen, the center display can keep showing YouTube for the drive. Use that only when it is legal and you can still focus on the road. It is not permission to watch the screen instead of the traffic. If people in the car want to watch for the whole trip, the rear screen is the place, on a Tesla that has one. Start it while parked: turn on theater mode from the front screen, then start the rear theater. With Pro, the rear display can keep playing after the front screen leaves the browser and after the trip continues. Passengers watch. The driver watches the road.

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   No extra device

   You do not add a device at the moment the car starts moving. A Fire Stick is a small Amazon player made for a television HDMI port, its own remote, and a power plug. The Tesla center screen is not that television. It does not have an HDMI input you plug a stick into so the stick becomes the car display. You cannot put a Fire Stick into the Tesla browser and have it run YouTube in motion. If you already own one, leave it at home. CyberTube will not ask for it.

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   No hardware, no jailbreak

   The same is true of HDMI boxes, phone mounts, tablet mounts, and CarPlay adapters. They are not how YouTube stays on during the drive. Nothing is installed in the car, there is no jailbreak, and opening the page does not void the warranty. Pro on the CyberDash account is what keeps YouTube available while the car is moving. Pro is $11.99 a month or $99.99 a year. After you sign up you get 24 hours of test access, so you can open CyberTube on your own car before you pay.

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   Internet and supported cars

   The video still needs internet while the car is moving. Premium Connectivity, a phone hotspot, or any other working data link is enough. Video in motion uses the same YouTube stream as video while parked. If the signal drops on the road, the picture drops with it. CyberTube is built for Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X from 2021, and Cybertruck. It is optimized for AMD Ryzen cars, Hardware 3 and Hardware 4. Intel cars can open it too; the page and the video simply take longer to start. You do not buy a different device for a different model.

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