The biggest screen in the lineup deserves a movie. CarCinema plays YouTube in the Model S browser, no installs.
The Model S has the biggest screen in the Tesla lineup: 17 inches, and since the 2021 refresh it sits in landscape, which makes it the closest thing to a TV in a car. CarCinema runs in the built-in browser, so nothing gets plugged in and nothing gets modified.
The earliest cars (2012-2017) run the first-generation media computer with a much slower browser, so playback is smoothest on MCU2 and newer infotainment, including every refreshed Model S.
Copy a YouTube link and send it to the bot on Telegram. From your phone, in five seconds.
The video downloads and converts to a format the Tesla browser can play.
Open carcinema.app on the Tesla screen, log in with a QR code and press play.
Not directly in the browser: Tesla blocks video playback. CarCinema gets around that block, so YouTube videos you send to the bot play on the Model S screen the same way they do in every other Tesla.
Every car with a working browser. Cars from 2012-2017 on the first-generation computer have a much slower browser, so playback is smoothest on MCU2 and newer.
No. You open carcinema.app in the built-in browser and log in with a QR code.
Log in with a QR code and watch your first video a minute later.
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