Thank you!
I found this on their website:
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But Auracast is a wide broadband standard - so new Resound TV Streamer+ will translate TV signal to all surrounding environment, including other floors in house, to all street, to neighbors houses?
There’s nothing useful in that article. They’re trying to get ahead of the competition.
The headline makes it sound like Resound developed Bluetooth LE Audio or any previous iterations (MFi, ASHA), which is bogus obviously (the 10 year thing is about evolving connectivity).
Great find! A couple of interesting observations. Their rechargeable version is the smallest! That’s a surprise. It is compatible with MultiMic (and at least some other accessories) Sounds like any Android phone with BT 5.3 might be compatible to use with LE Audio. Looks like it’s staying with Made for iPhone tech for Apple.
Also sounds like “hands free” is limited iPhones.
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I guess “useful” is in the eye of the beholder. To me the most useful is that it tells us this is no longer a rumor, it’s got a release date. I haven’t read the article so don’t know what it implied, but as far as I know Resound was the first to come out with Made for iPhone hearing aids and has been heavily involved in developing the standards.
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Perhaps you’ve missed this thread?
HearingTracker already published article on them and video preview
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Well that’s how all of them work, Wi-Fi included. I’m guessing that there will be some pairing involved on both sides, similar to how Bluetooth operates currently.
Accessibility broadcasts will have it open to all.
Thanks!
I’m new to this forum and have not read more than some more recent posts regarding CI and Bluetooth LE audio (auracast etc), and what I can find on direct connection between CI and PC/Mac.
(For natural reasons I don’t read much about regular hearing aids anymore, but the tv-streamers and wireless microphones are super interesting for me as well).
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Phone being BT 5.3 is not enough, it needs quite a recent Android version (13 or 14), and to have a required codec enabled (LC3). Very few phones fulfill these conditions currently.
Otherwise it will fall back to other (older) means of communication.
I was just repeating what was on Resound’s website. I expect most any android phone with BT 5.3 is going to be Android 13. However, I would always recommend verifying connectivity before committing to a purchase. If going with Android, I’d also lean towards sticking with Samsung or Google.
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Yeah, Google’s Pixels, latest Samsungs or Sonys are all safe bets. Still, 5.2-5.3 bluetooth phones been out there for some time, along with similarly specced hearing aids, don’t expect them all to be updated, [especially HAs] to be compatible.
Even having android 13 might be not enough as it’s just part of the requirements, there are other variables at play too. I have two A13 phones and they are not LE Audio compatible [and will never be most likely]. While my newer [A13] Xperia is.
It can be broadcast to everyone, broadcast to those with credentials, or connected (not sure if that’s technically part of Auracast or not).
Can someone translate this for me (from the HearingTracker article)? The new ReSound TV-Streamer+ can be used to receive streamed audio from a TV to Nexia hearing aids, but within the app will also eventually be able to work in Auracast broadcast mode as a transmitter.
My interpretation is that it will work as LE Audio or legacy streamer, no broadcasting yet.
They’re evidently rushing it, new TVs with Aura are making it obsolete already.
This doesn’t mean that… It means the app will control the auracast broadcast like a wifi list for bluetooth
be able to work in Auracast broadcast mode as a transmitter.
This makes it sound like it doesn’t work as an Auracast device at all, initially. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding something?
Edit.
Resound is also launching its new TV-Steamer+, which is also Auracast-ready.
Meaning that it is not enabled yet.
Oh i see carry on, nvm then, i was reading the thing wrong
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Great video, @Baltazard. They should have him be the official BT LE Audio spokesperson if he’s not already. He needs to take some lessons from Dr. Cliff or someone like that on presentation. During the first part of his video, his head was frozen motionless much of the time, and he was obviously reading from a script. In the latter part, he limbered up and relaxed with more head movement, emotional expression, and engaging gesticulation.
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Can’t see Phonak implementing Auracast anytime soon @Baltazard, not unless they can make money out of it, and Phonak likes your money… If they do, in the next iteration after Lumity, you can bet your bottom dollar, you’ll need some sort of licence to activate it… I know, I am a cynical old, so in so 
But, Phonak have to get their priorities right, your hard earned cash, is no use to them, if you still have it 
Removing it from your coffers is their main priority, helping the HOH, is perhaps a secondary consideration? As always, we all have our own opinions, and rightly so… I don’t have much time for companies that tend to exploit HOH, folks whom have a recognised disability, and they are trying to bleed every last cent out of these disabled folk… And yes, Phonak does make absolutely wonderful hearing aids, and Roger ALD’s! But unfortunately, Phonak have little or no actual moral compass, and fleecing highly disadvantaged folks, seems to be what they do best… Apologies, rant over…
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I can see them adding auracast to the existing Bluetooth portfolio. They are the only ones that do BT to nearly any BT device without thinning your wallet for an intermediary device. But, you’ll still be paying for the receiver licenses for roger. Don’t see that going away. Don’t see roger going auracast.
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Sweet Fanny Adam’s to do with with R & D in my IMO @Baltazard, especially with the R & D for the Roger System, I am almost certain the US Military paid Phonak Communications handsomely for that research… You would have thought, given the Roger R & D was pre-funded, they might have cut the HOH a bit of slack, Phonak probably bumped the price up 
Simply because they can, they have a captive audience, and you either pay the piper, or do without… And Phonak know, full well, some of us are desperate enough to pay the piper…
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