Resound Airlink Adapter - Can you purchase privately?

Cray512 · April 24, 2015, 12:45pm

nickhaines:

I have a mild to severe hearing loss and up until the age of 14 used to wear two NHS aids. I’m now 29 and quickly realizing that I need to revisit the world of hearing aids once again. However this time I have decided to go private and find an aid that’s better than the Seamens Reflex M that my local heath authority would provide.
I have been looking at the Resound Alera 5, if appears to meet most of my needs and is nice and neat. Whilst reading around the spec and the wireless features, I stumbled across the this forum and other talking about the Airlink adapter and the ability to program your Alera’s. However there does not seem to be any firm conclusions as to whether you can buy the USB Airlink adapter without being an approved audiologist.

I understand that programing your own aid is not going to be simple, and I would get the audiologist fitting the aids to carry out the main adjustment, but I think the ability to fine tune the aids at home would be useful.

So if any one can clear up the availibility of the Resound USB adaptor I would appreciate it. Also am I being naive to think that I can learn how to use the software and make changes to my own aids?

I’ve just received a Resound Airlink from India. It works perfectly with my Alera HAs.

Sushi1960 · July 18, 2015, 3:55am

Hi Cray512,

any URL where to purchase it ??

thanx in advance

geokir · August 15, 2015, 6:26pm

I bought one from Europe. It seems they treat adjusting your own aid different. In the U.S. The audiologist try to control everything. They try to justify it but the real reason I suspect is to keep 100 percent of the business. I have resound aids and have keep the two programs that my audiologist entered but also entered one of my own. It would be great if you could adjust your aids while in the environment that gives you the most trouble.
Check the Europe eBay site. One just sold this last Friday night. It went for a much higher price then I paid for mine.

geokir · August 15, 2015, 6:29pm

Don’t touch the program they enter. Backup your aid first then enter a new one that you can experiment with.

rnatalie · November 16, 2017, 2:47am

I bought my Airlink2 off ebay (200 pounds plus a few more bucks to a freight forwarder since the seller only sold domestically in the UK). I use it with the resound smartfit. It reads the existing settings in the hearingaids just fine. I saved the existing settings from my Audi and created a new “patient” for my playing around with settings.

rnatalie · November 16, 2017, 2:48am

have also tried to connect with a normal general Bluetooth adapter, but so far I cant get the adapter to see the Alera’s. this would be a great (and a cheap) solution if it could be made to work.

Bluetooth won’t work. It’s BLE (despite the name bluetooth, it’s a complete different protocol). For practical purooses, you should be able to use any BLE device to program the HA. I’ve tried to use a BLE sniffer to capture the data transfers but so far I’ve not had a whole lot of luck.

tamarack9676 · January 11, 2018, 6:01pm

check ebay always one available

pclewis · January 11, 2018, 9:43pm

The Noahlink Wireless is the same thing and has probably replaced Airlink 2. You can get one for 250 Euro here:
https://www.aurem-hearing.com/

They ship promptly, and will update to the latest firmware. You can find out more about it and get new firmware from:
https://www.himsa.com/Products/NoahlinkWireless/tabid/4792/language/en-US/Default.aspx

pvc · January 11, 2018, 11:29pm

Names!!
AirLink is not AirLink 2

Noahlink Wireless cannot replace Airlink 2 because,
AirLink 2 is Noahlink Wireless, they are the same device.

rnatalie · January 12, 2018, 3:36am

This is true, but if you have Resound (or the other related brands) aids and you’re using SmartFit, you should be able to use the original Airlink dongle. The Airlink2/Noahlink is compatible with more brands however.

pvc · January 12, 2018, 4:09am

Maybe you are saying what I am going to say in a different a different way?? You can’t use the Airlink dongle on the new stuff.

Old stuff cable guide.

New stuff cable guide.

rnatalie · January 12, 2018, 4:28pm

I stand corrected. If you’re using Aventa, you can use either the Airlink (dongle) or the Airlink2. If you’re using SmartFit, it only supports the Airlink2/Noahlink (as well as the common wired Noahlink, speedlink, and hipro).

pvc · January 12, 2018, 4:58pm

Yep, you got it. Except, of course the hearing aids must be wireless. Most newcomers don’t know what fitting software they should use, so it’s better to begin with which hearing aid model you need to program, and then work backwards from there.

Also I recommend against using wired Noahlink and Speedlink devices. Why?

ReSound Speedlink is a proprietary wired device so you are limiting youeself to only one manufacturer;

Noahlink partially-wired device is getting-long in-the-tooth (old technology). You can do much better than this old, almost obsolete, Noahlink, not to be confused with Noahlink Wireless/ReSound Airlink 2 (same device).