I have been using the Roger Table Mic (first gen) for a while now and I am having to return to the office for face to face work and have enrolled on a training course. With COVID, training is happening in bigger rooms than pre-pandemic. Whereas I found 2 Roger Table Mic OK before, I am now struggling and therefore looking to add more Roger devices in a MultiTalker Network.
I am looking at the Roger On which I understand is better for smaller groups but then can be linked and controlled independently from the MyRoger App whereas the Roger Table Mic II is for bigger groups but does not have the use of the app.
Does anyone have any experience of those two Roger devices in large groups? I’d be keen to hear your opinions/thoughts.
The Phonak user guide for the MyRogerMic app seems to suggest up to 10 Roger On devices can be connected and controlled from a single app. Or am I reading it wrong? (I am suffering from an extreme bout of listening fatigue and my brain is barely functioning)
You’re right. I wonder why my friend can’t link her 3 x Roger On to the App?
If you’re getting Access to Work involved. Have you applied as they are massively far behind and the waiting time, just to be accessed is like a min of 4 months.
Try and get as much as possible from Access to Work. My friend works in NHS and she got 10 x Table Mics last week.
I personally don’t find any difference between the table mode on Roger On and the Table Mic II but there’s a huge difference between the first generation Table Mic.
Ask for the Roger On iN as you have the Marvel unless you have the licenses installed already?
Yes, I applied in April and only recently had my assessment!
I have been recommended
1 x Roger On
1 x Roger Select (at my request, I will use this to connect bluetooth devices then link with my hearing aids, I think it is a workaround to the 1 bluetooth connection at a time for the Audeo M90-13T?)
2 x Roger Table Mic II Twin packs
No I am still awaiting the report which was delayed because it didn’t have the Select. I won’t dare ask to remove it because it will cause further delays … They have already recommended the 2 x Roger Table MIc II twin packs. I may ask work not to purchase the Select, it shouldn’t be a problem.
I read somewhere, cannot remember where, that some ReSound HAs (and other brands) have direct connectivity with Roger … not sure if hers have though!
As much as I love Phonak, I suspect why the bluetooth won’t work is because they have specially designed it like this.
When the Marvels came out, I spoke to some people from Sonova involved in the design of ALDs and asked them about Roger Direct, having to buy the licences and they said something along the lines of, it was a business decision … so they are balancing their innovations with how much revenue they are getting I guess.
For example, even the NHS Marvel equivalent, the Nathos Nova, doesn’t have the licences so people will have to procure separately. I am unsure if NHS provide them?