Phonak Roger MultiTalker Network: Roger On VS Roger Table Mic II

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.

@Zebras have you used the Roger On? Is there a massive difference in sound quality from Roger Table Mic II?

The OP is asking about whether to get the Roger On.

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@Baltazard Audeo M90-13T

@Demerara

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?

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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

Looks like I should ask for more lol

Yes, actually i got the Roger On iN. It does my head in, Phonak could have chosen an easier name on the tongue :sweat_smile:

Roger Select bluetooth will not work with your Aids. It makes the Aids go crazy and none stop changing programs.

That’s why the Roger Select iN and Pen iN do not have Bluetooth installed into them.

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Oh noooooooooo and I thought I was being clever :rofl:

Is it because of interference?

Maybe your friend should unpair all and repair them @Zebras

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We don’t know why. People on here think it’s because it uses the same programs but I don’t understand it.

There’s been a load of talk on this forum.

You can use a normal Pen and a normal Select but the Bluetooth must be turned off otherwise your Aids will just carry on beeping.

If you turn your Aids to Flight Mode then the Roger won’t connect to your Aids. People thought it might work on Flight Mode but nope.

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That’s interesting, I also have a Roger Pen and I tried streaming music but it wouldn’t work …

My mum uses hearing aids too ReSound … can’t recall which but with bluetooth, she can have the Select then :stuck_out_tongue:

I guess all equipment is ordered then?

Your Mum would have to buy some Roger receivers to use the Select.

I would email Access to Work and cancel the Select and order 2 x twin packs of Table Mic II.

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!

No brands can work directly to Roger without a type of receiver. That isn’t possible.

Resound would need a Mini Mic and a Roger X receiver plugged into it. Then she would have to carry the Mini Mic on her pocket.

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?

NHS won’t provide them.

The licenses are only a way of paying for basically Roger receivers like all other brands of HA/CI and BAHA, you just don’t have to wear the actual Roger receiver attached to your Aids or wear a Roger NeckLoop. It’s just basically built in but you’re having to pay for them still.

These are my NHS Aids. (Only one pictured.)

The silver Roger receiver is at the bottom and the green audio shoe, it makes them quite big.

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Which model do you have @Zebras ? And could you not get a compatible audio shoe and not the Roger X? I had the Naida V70 before the Marvels and I had a shoe which fitted, it did make the HA much bigger but it looked like one.

@Demerara

The picture shows my HA, it has an audio shoe and Roger X.

It’s a Phonak Sky V70 UP. Basically a Phonak Naida V70 UP.

@Zebras here is one of mine with the Roger receiver … My brain is slightly better today … what I meant was an integrated Roger receiver.