Bluetooth with hearing aids

[newman1999]

Has anyone been able to hookup to your hearing aids with the bluetooth or is there a bluetooth mode I've had it for two days now and was wondering if anyone would be able to help me out.

[NellyG]

I think it would depend on your hearing aids. Do they have bluetooth?

[newman1999]

yes they do i have a FM system attached to my hearing aid that allows bluetooth but i don't know how to hook it up with the fitbit ionic  is there a hearing aid mode or something i might be missing?

[Adrus]

Have u figured this out? I just got my versa and can’t connect it to my Oticon hearing aids either. 

[DMCMD]

any luck or suggestions yet? I have resound MFi Bluetooth HA and the Versa is not recognizing them either. This may make me return the Versa and go for an Apple Watch...

[Adrus]

No luck. It’s not able to pair unfortunately.

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[DMCMD]

Thanks, Jogger. Guess I’ll be returning it and getting an Apple Watch. Bummer, because I like he Versa!! Hope they & ReSound get connected.
Thanks for your help!
Dawn

"Do small things with great love."
-Mother Theresa

[ChasEar]

I am having the exact same problem.  I cannot pair my Fitbit Vera’s with my Oticon hearing aids. Both have blue tooth...

What can I do to make this happen..

[Adrus]

I’m going to try to post this on the feature board and see if maybe someone can help us

[jonathanozek]

Good thing I'm getting all this information about it. Don't waste your time on the Apple Watch. I have a ReSound hearing aid. The bluetooth works on the Iphone, great! Unfortunately it's not for the Apple Watch. I've dealt for 4 days trying to connect my hearing aid to the watch bluetooth, it doesn't work. I called both Apple and ReSound, it's not for the watch. Only for the phone. 

[DMCMD]

I have Resound hearing aids and an Apple Watch. There is some limited connectivity. It does connect and you can use it to change program and volume settings. You cannot use it to make phone calls. or stream audio. They are considered compatible, but there’s not a whole lot you can do yet.

"Do small things with great love."
-Mother Theresa

[burns_erin]

Hi! I am an audiologist. Unitron (Discover models) and Phonak (Marvel Models) now have hearing aids that are not MiFi and are instead compatible with Bluetooth in general. The limitations are they can really only connect with one thing at a time and don't necessarily switch well. I completely forgot about this thread so I didn't remember to check into this when they came out earlier this year. But I have successfully managed to get them connected and I will endeavor to play with them some more tonight and tomorrow to see what kind of utility they have.

The reason the Resound and Oticon aids weren't connecting is they were not exactly connecting to Bluetooth exactly, it was a MFi (distinct from MiFi) protocol, and only certain models of iPhone, iPad, and iPod had the right things to connect to the aids.

As two brands (well, really they are sister companies owned by the same parent company) have recently moved into a more generic market, I would imagine others will be soon too.

[Mellyk226]

Were you able to get your Marvels to connect? I'm an audiology assistant and having trouble with it. I was so hoping to be able to use this as a selling feature lol

[burns_erin]

@Mellyk226 I actually was but it worked only with the primary streaming aid, if the secondary aid was on it would asynchronously stream across. And as said before it was a pain to unpair and repair. I haven't tried again since the update that allows for having two Bluetooth devices connected.

[Sviat]

Can you tell me how you got your Phonak hearing aids to connect?

[ChasEar]

BRAND IS OTICON... INSTRUCTIONS & code COME WITH HEARING AIDS

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[burns_erin]

They're Phonak Marvels. I put the the iconic in pairing mode and then turned the primary aid (usually the right one) on and off which sets it into pairing mode. Then just treated it like any other Bluetooth headset. I really should retry this.