I will be getting my Oticon OPN 1’s this coming Wednesday. I’m like most on this forum and want to be able to tweak my own Hearing Aids. I’m replacing the Phonak Audeo IX that I got 10 years ago. I was never happy with the fitting and would have loved to been able make adjustments myself.
I’m giving up on finding a Fittinglink 3.0 Kit and now looking at the getting the Noahlink Wireless. Can anyone confirm that the Noahlink Wireless will work with Oticon OPN?
Thank you,
Mike
My plan is to let my Audiologist do the FW updates. FW updates become less frequent as the hardware ages. I’ll need to make sure the ones I pick up are at rev 5 to work properly with the Connectclip Streamer. If I do my own FW updates and have problems with my new aids that are hardware related, I don’t want to take the chance of having my warranty voided because I was tinkering.
I’m not married to the Wireless solution and wouldn’t mind going the Mini Pro route if I could purchase a complete kit all in one place.
The cost to assembly a complete Mini Pro kit might be close to what I would pay for the Noahlink Wireless. $420 shipped.
Ali Express has the Mini Pro for $229.14 after shipping. I’m not sure how much more for the cables and connectors once I locate them, but I think I saw one pair of cables priced a $99.
Great information in your DIY Programming threads by the way.
Edit: I just saw your link that answered my question. Thanks much!
Mike
After going through that big explanation about getting a Wireless solution, I ended up putting together and buying a Mini Pro kit. $299.13 total.
Purchasing the Flex Strips was a bit confusing. It would be very easy to order the wrong pair.
On a personal note, I’m surprised at how excited I am about getting new hearing aids. I can’t wait see my 2 1/2 year old grandson and understand what he’s saying to me. Half the time now I have to get his mom or grandma to tell me what he is trying to say to me. I’m hoping that will be a thing of the past.
Mike
Following email sent to specialist@thehearingclub.com
Your order page is so damn confusing.
http://www.thehearingclub.com/Programming-Adapter-size-312-13-or-FLEX-STRIPS-Comes-with-two-adapters_p_285.html
No one knows whether they are ordering Programming Pills or Flex Strips? No one knows whether they are ordering one or two. I am embarrassed to recommend this to other forum members. Why don’t you split these two items into separate pages.
You added the tiny picture of flex strips at my previous request. You should have a large picture, like this;
If you have Oticon accessories (Phone/TV Adapter/ConnectClip) then pay careful attention to the settings for those accessories!
Opn Phone/TV Adapter/ConnectClip sound settings for quality/bass/mic
What a GREAT thread! I bought my Opn’s early 2017, the Genie 2 a couple months after and really haven’t used it after doing some tweaks at the beginning. I didn’t know squat until I started reading all of your posts… Just spent the last hour or two updating Genie to V 2017.2 (what a painfully slow download). I should probably find someone to do my Opn firmware update, pretty sure they’re like V2. My audi retired and closed the business. Are any of you in San Diego by chance? I’d rather pay one of you some $ to update these then buy the equipment.
And if any of you are interested in a Webex and helping me with your vast knowledge of this program, I’d be grateful and would even be willing to kick down a few bucks for the help 
Oticon Genie 2 SP1 Update is out. I downloaded and installed it this morning.
I’m not sure what the Service Pack added, changed, or fixed, but I thought I would let users know that it’s available.
If I find what the changes were, I’ll post a link.
Mike
Thanks for the heads up. You can also use Genie Updater (usually running in your sys-tray) to download and then update to (Genie 2|2017.2.SP1). Or, depending on how you have set Genie Updater Preferences the download and update of SP1 could be done automatically. If you have your Genie Updater Preferences set to automatically download and automatically update, then be patient for a day or two.
My Genie updater downloaded the SP1 update and I installed it. It installed parts 1 and 2 ok but never finished part 3 - I finally had to kill the process. It didn’t seem to affect the Genie software at all as best I can tell and it shows that it is updated to SP1.
Like Mikejl I don’t know what the service pack changed - I can’t detect anything different when I run Genie 2.
Does anyone know where to find a list of the changes that the service pack made?
Successful here. The third part was about 3 minutes with a lot of disk activity on a fast system.
I also have a fast system and a solid state disk which is very fast. I let the process run for well over half an hour and then looked at it with the Windows 10 task manager and it showed no activity at all - no disk reads or writes and no memory or cpu usage.
When I check the “about” for Genie 2 I get exactly the same build number as you did. Strange…
At least it all seems to work just fine. I have used it to make a few changes to my OPN aids programming since I ran the update with no problems…
Found a SP1 standalone update file here.
Downloaded (78MB), unzipped it and there is nothing within that gives info on what was changed. Just a setup file.
Thanks for looking. Hopefully Oticon will eventually produce something that tells us what was changed and/or updated. I suppose that it was just bug fixes but we’ll probably never know.
What frequencies would I lower to reduce the crackling / rustling noise you get when you open a cellophane type of bag. IE: potato chips or ready to eat salad bag.
Right now the sound is unnatural and a bit loud. If I turn the volume down 1 or 2 clicks, it sounds much more natural. I would like to lower only those specific frequencies.
I’m hoping someone has already worked this out, if not I’ll do it myself by trial and error.
Mike
Both Android and IOS have frequency capturing applications that might get you into the neighborhood. I have not used them.
What I do is simply get used to some things being loud. Water splashing in the sink, paper crinkling, clanking from putting dishes away. It doesn’t bother me much anymore. I prefer loudness to everything dull comfort sounds.
Thanks, that’s a good place to start.
Mike
I may end up back to these settings after awhile when the newness of being able to do my own tweaks wears off, but right now I want to see if I can make some improvements.
Mike
Hi…i am a new user here.In my case I used different program settings and also to update the firmware to version 4.0 but since I am not an audiologist my knowledge of how all the programming options work and exactly what they do is limited.