My Apple Powered Entertainment system in my 2011 Toyota Sienna (lots of pics)

[2dee11]

This is awesome for a variety of reasons! One I work at a Toyota dealership so seeing a sienna like this is sweet! Two I'm currently trying to do a similar set up on my car.

I'm a little confused... So you use two iPads? I'm wanting to be able to show the same thing on my dash iPad and the rear headrests all three at the same time

 

[Prkieffer]

The family and I decided to take a road trip from Los Angeles to Phoenix, AZ to catch some spring training baseball and we decided that we needed some entertainment for the 5 hour drive.

A little background on me:
I was a car audio installer for over 4 years before taking a technical support job at Alpine (reason why I only use Alpine products in my vehicles), and after 3 years at Alpine I moved onto one of the largest OE parts manufacture in the world, been here for the last 12 years.

I still love installing.....in my own cars....

I didnt want to install just anything, I wanted the setup to be unique, efficient, and minimal as possible. After lots of research and drawing things out. Here's what I came up with.

Equipment used:
iPad Mini 3 on iOS 8.1(jailbroken) - in the Dash, fully removable.
iPad 2 - used for rear monitors
Apple TV 3 - used for rear monitors
Alpine CDE-HD149BT - AM/FM/HD Radio/CD/BT Streaming audio head unit
Alpine PKG-M780 (discontinued) - Dual 7" Headrest monitors
Seagate Wireless Plus - 1TB HDD

Also purchased a bunch of factory brackets in order to mount the radio headunit in the factory rear DVD player location.

Everything works really well and I love how everything looks and functions, so I decided to share with everyone. I still have some touching up to do on the iPad dash piece but you get the idea.

Before:
2015-03-30 15.10.33 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

2015-03-30 15.11.16 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

20150321_102642 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

20150314_123243 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

Sienna1 by WC Productionz, on Flickr


After:
20150330_133307 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

20150330_133325 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

20150330_133334 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

20150330_144853 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

20150330_144915 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

20150330_145504 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

20150330_150107 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

2015-03-30 15.06.48 by WC Productionz, on Flickr

 

[Prkieffer]

Hi..

Thanks so much for your posting. I could use your help - I have 2007 Jetta that I installed the new ILX-007 alpine and a 4th gen Apple TV. I also have a massive iTunes media library around 1TB. What I want to know is how to get an external that will interact in the same fashion as home sharing. I want to make the process of watching super easy.. Is that possible and how might that work?? Thanks again for the posting!!

Paul Valencia, California.

 

[dontwalkhand]

Lots of Picture Unavailable Can you upload them directly here?