Auracast for old unsupported hearing aids

This is an idea, I don’t know how feasible it is.

If you have a new smartphone. It is strong enough ram and battery. To be like some kind of bridge, it would receive the auracast stream and decode and encode the signal so that it can be received, for example, by hearing aids that use Bluetooth classic.

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I think this should work. My Pixel 9 can act as both an auracast transmitter and receiver.

Never mind. I see what you are asking. I don’t see phone manufactures spending a lot of resources on doing this. So probably isn’t going to happen.

I thought your hearing aid had to be able to connect to an Auracast broadcast. I don’t think the Philips 9050 has the necessary update to receive an Auracast broadcast, even if you have a Pixel 9.

the smartphone would receive the signal and decode it so that the hearing aid can receive them. a hearing aid would receive normal communication

The FlooGoo will do this if I’ve understood this correctly.
I need to try it!

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Unless a smartphone has dual bluetooth chip, it’s going to be a dongle system like the floogoo and co.

A dongle that receives an Auracast stream, then send it to the smartphone via USB, the smartphone then send a signal to the hearing aids using classic bluetooth or LE audio.

That’s my understanding, I could be wong.

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I would not think that it would be feasible. Every time the audio needs to be converted, it adds another delay.