Mercedes XENTRY Installation: DAS, Vediamo, DTS Monaco and StarFinder

Mercedes XENTRY Installation with DAS, Vediamo, DTS Monaco and StarFinder

XENTRY (XENTRY Diagnosis) is the service diagnostic software Mercedes-Benz uses to diagnose, code and program its cars, vans, trucks and buses. Older model series run in DAS, which Mercedes has built into XENTRY. This product is a remote XENTRY installation service: we install XENTRY, DAS, Vediamo, DTS Monaco, StarFinder, WIS and EPC on your laptop, set up drivers and certificates, pair your interface and run the first vehicle scan with you. The vehicle interface is a separate product.

What does the XENTRY installation include?

Are WIS and EPC online now?

Yes. Mercedes now delivers its workshop information as XENTRY WIS and its parts catalogue as XENTRY Parts Information, both web-based and opened with a B2B Connect login and multi-factor authentication. The WIS, EPC and StarFinder copies in our installation run offline on the laptop, so their data stays at the level of the installed release. For the newest series, the current source is the Mercedes online service; if you have an account, we configure that side too.

DTS Monaco and Vediamo: engineering tools with real risk

XENTRY only shows the parameters released for that vehicle and that software level. Vediamo and DTS Monaco open the full control unit description, which is what workshops use for variant coding and for unit parameters that do not need SCN coding. Comfort settings such as ambient lighting, comfort closing and mirror folding sit in this class; what can be enabled depends on the unit software and the hardware fitted. Examples are in our Mercedes hidden feature activation article.

Vediamo has no protection layer against invalid parameter combinations and does not check anything against the Mercedes backend. A wrongly written parameter block can lock a control unit or leave it unreachable by diagnosis. Back up the coding string first, connect a battery support unit and leave unknown parameters alone; teaching parameter use is not part of this service.

Which interface does XENTRY need?

DoIP (Diagnostics over IP) carries diagnosis and programming over the vehicle's Ethernet line. According to the Mercedes XENTRY Pass Thru manual, the series introduced with BR 223 (S-Class, 2020) and BR 206 (C-Class, 2021) are pure DoIP. On the recent car and van series before them, a non-DoIP interface still diagnoses the car but cannot flash the head unit or the instrument cluster.

Since Release 06/2020 Mercedes has also required a personal user login for diagnosis on the 2020 facelifted 213 and on the 223, extended to all series in 2021; control unit commissioning needs a separate XENTRY Flash role. Send us your interface model and the series you work on, and we will tell you before you order which vehicles you can reach.

XENTRY system requirements

Mercedes states that it has not tested XENTRY running in parallel with other software and accepts no liability for flashing or coding in that situation. For reference, its own Pad 2 tablet runs an i5-8265U with 16 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD.

How we install XENTRY

1. Pre-order check. You send the interface model, your laptop's processor, memory and storage, and the series you work on. We confirm coverage before anything is installed.
2. Laptop preparation. Windows updates are completed, disk space is freed and an administrator account is ready; sleep and automatic restarts are switched off.
3. Installation. Over a remote desktop session we install XENTRY, DAS, Vediamo, DTS Monaco, StarFinder, WIS and EPC on a path without spaces or special characters, which the Mercedes manual also requires.
4. Drivers, certificates and pairing. Interface drivers and firmware, USB and Wi-Fi settings, certificates and access definitions are set up.
5. Vehicle test. You connect a Mercedes and we run the quick test together, checking that every unit is listed and that the engineering tools see the interface.
6. First-use support. If you get stuck on early jobs, we connect remotely and look; release upgrades follow the same route.

Who can install XENTRY?

With Mercedes' official products, the workshop installs the software itself. XENTRY Diagnosis Lite and XENTRY Pass Thru EU need administrator rights and a StartKey bound to the PC's hardware ID, and every user needs a personal login with the diagnosis role. Mercedes sells both only to businesses in the EU and a few other European countries. If your workshop holds a Mercedes account and subscription, we help configure the account and the installation; the subscription and the online rights come from Mercedes.

Common XENTRY installation errors

XENTRY releases and XENTRY Truck

Mercedes names releases by month and year, for example Release 06/2020 or 09/2021; the market writes the same release as 2023.12. Updates come four times a year, and a release only knows the series published before it. The release we currently install is shown in the version badge at the top of this page.

Trucks and buses are now handled by Daimler Truck, with Daimler Truck Diagnostics and the XENTRY Truck applications on their own release calendar. Since January 2024 a system runs on either a Mercedes-Benz or a Daimler Truck StartKey, not both, and Daimler Truck states that an official VCI flashed with truck firmware can no longer diagnose cars or vans. Truck software for Mercedes and other brands is covered by our heavy-duty OEM software installation.

Notes on the previous release are in our XENTRY 2023 installation article, and the interface is described on the Mercedes SD Connect C6 page. Workshops using a multi-brand diagnostic device often add XENTRY once their Mercedes work grows. Installations for other brands, such as ODIS for VW and Audi and BMW ISTA, are listed with all software products under Software and Licences.