What is your setup to watch TV ? (dual audio output)

That’s the one! Thanks. And this has been mentioned here before too. lol
So @kov insert that between the NVidia and the soundbar. Then use a TVC out of that. The soundbar volume can control the room volume. The TVC and the aids will have their own volume. There could be some lipsync lag that you might need to adjust in the NVidia and find a balance point between the soundbar and the aids and the final display.

Yeah, the audio delivery to our hearing aids is never real easy.

I have the TV connector. I also use the RogerOn.

Problem is if the audio is being streamed as 5.1 or two channel or some version of that it’ll work through the TV connector. But if you have object based audio, such as Atmos, the TV streamer does not work. For that I need to use the RogerOn to enhance the sound to my hearing aids. I use a splitter off the Apple TV+ box to plug the TV Connector in. This is because my TV will not send dual audio.

Basically, it’s a mess.

The Phonak V2 TVC (the one with buttons) is the one that will work with Dolby Digital variants. 1.1 or 1 will not.
I guess I have it good. My tv is basically the center of my system as it has speaker outs, sub out and other audio outs. Simply a 2.1 on its own. The volume does not affect the optical. Some tv’s do.

There’s also a media cable you can use with Roger On going from 3.5mm (analog) audio jack to the usb-c port on the bottom of the Roger. Eliminates some of the ambient noise.

WH

@RobHooft said:

It looks like you need this kind of chinese toy then. Not too costly.

Thank you ! I will try this as soon as I can.

Yes, this “media” cable has a 3.5mm “headphone jack” type plug. When you plug it in, you Roger displays a music note symbol and your aids get whatever comes over that wire. Stereo works. When it (stereo) quits i reset the Roger. No dock needed. I’ve only been able to get them through my audiology dept. You’ll see a thousand that look right in stores & etc online, but they don’t work. They are designed to take music from your phone or other music playing device and inject it into the aux port on a car or home audio system. You need the audio to travel in the other direction. (They do d2a, and you need a2d).

I’ve asked the tech at my audiologist what the part number or other unique identifier is so you can inquire about getting one.

WH

@WhiteHat said:

Yes, this “media” cable has a 3.5mm “headphone jack” type plug. When you plug it in, you Roger displays a music note symbol and your aids get whatever comes over that wire.

OK, so it looks like this cable supports both power AND audio? USB-C on one end would plug into the bottom of my Roger mic remote; headphone jack on other end is plugged into aux port on the back of the TV (or car, home audio system. Did I get that right?

@PeterH said:

This TV does have Bluetooth, however, and I do have 5 pairs enabled.

Interesting! Is this a new tech trend? Does that mean if you pair + connect your aids you don’t even NEED a TV Connector or Roger mic?
Wow. This is what I’d like at home!

@1Bluejay said:

Does that mean if you pair + connect your aids you don’t even NEED a TV Connector or Roger mic?

My TV does this and seems to compensate for Bluetooth latency quite well. Unfortunately, I don’t have Phonak so listening through earbuds is my only option.

Bluetooth introduces the possibility of lag/lipsync issues. Until heading aids add the aptx codec their could be lag.
Maybe auracast fixes the lag issue. Not sure.
I don’t get any lag with my TVC when connected to the tv output. I can sometimes get a bit of an echo if I connect it to an output device further up the stream though.

I’m just quite impressed at the multi-use of the Roger On. (I’m struggling in my dotage to find the better word than flexibility ) Maybe it can preclude the use of the TVC.
Sorry again @kov .

No, it’s great ! That’s precisely why I started this thread. To see everyone’s ways to deal with this issue. I hope that in a not-so-distant future, it will become easier for all of us.

We have an early smart LG TV which does not provide dual audio. The only way I could figure out how to enable dual output was to obtain a simple audio splitter. This plugs into the headphone socket on the TV. One lead then goes to my Phonak TV Connector. The other goes to my wife’s sound bar. So far that workaround is functioning well for both of us.

Wow that is cool! So, do you remove your aids and use the earbuds to listen to the TV? I can not hear worth squat with earbuds or most of those low-quality airplane headphones.