Costco Kirkland Signature 6.0

@Neilk said:

I haven’t used the triple click screen before but looked at it after reading this post and it was blank other than showing Hearing Aids on the top bar . My first follow-up at Costco was yesterday morning. The HIS took my phone and the aids and resync’d them. Now I have the fully functional 3-click screen including the “Start Live Listen” which works beautifully. Perhaps have your hearing aid person resync your phone and aids.

3=click worked for me immediately after installing iOS 9.2. I’m an avid user of the K6 / iPhone 6+ audio combination. Can you explain what ‘Start Live Listen’ does? just missed that one. thnaks

It turns on the iphones speaker and streams it to the aids.

If you’ve misplaced your MFI guide, you can view/download it from KS6 User Portal6

@Baywood said:

3=click worked for me immediately after installing iOS 9.2. I’m an avid user of the K6 / iPhone 6+ audio combination. Can you explain what ‘Start Live Listen’ does? just missed that one. thnaks

“Start Live Listen” turns the iPhone mic into the input to the aids. At a meeting you can turn that on, place your phone in the middle of the table or group, and the iPhone is your direct to ears listening device. At a noisy restaurant and still having a hard time hearing a low speaker with the Noisy program selected? Turn on “Start Live Listen” and if that bad give them the iPhone and tell them to talk into it … direct into your KS6’s.

@LarryJ said:

i did speak with Kirkland Tech Support today. They acknowledged the issue and said to have Costco resync it on their software to get upgraded firmware. I made an appointment for tomorrow and the hearing aid fitter I see said she just got a memo on this. I was about to try to revert to 9.1 but the Tech Support person said I won’t have to do that. If you haven’t used the triple click before, you’ll love it. It does 90% of what the Choice app does and it comes up even on the lock screen, so it is a real time saver.

Went to Costco. They put the hearing aids on their computer program to do the update. 5 minutes later all is well.

@hshachter said:

Not so. The Android app controls sound level and programs directly to the KS6 without need of the phone clip. The phone clip is needed for streaming phone calls and other sound from the Android to the HA.

It works only with Samsung Galaxy that way. Most Androids can’t use the app without the clip.

@Neilk said:

I have an after-market Alpine Bluetooth stereo in my 2011 RAV4. I can talk to Siri by pushing the Call button on the radio, tell her what to play or who to call as well as have a fun conversation with her. Phone calls go directly to the car speakers and my voice picked up by the mini mic attached to the radio and mounted next to the rear view mirror. Sound and phone calls are both great. However, I do have one issue, so it is not perfect. I can live with it as it works great other than the fact that playing music via Bluetooth from my iPhone 6+ through the Alpine stereo also streams the music into my aids. The sound is not adversely affected though as the stereo is outputting more than the Bluetooth to the aids. The one negative is the aids switching out of streaming mode when I turn off the ignition and get out of the car, and the further drain on the batteries. Batteries last me the 3 days of the 3 to 5 they claim. I don’t mind that as I spend all day streaming to my office phone. There I use the Phone Clip+ Bluetooth to my Jabra Bluetooth adapter on my multiline office phone. It beats joining in the speakerphone wars in our close cubicles. And my phone calls with customers are good and clear, especially with the half muted mics on the aids themselves. Eventually I’ll retire, maybe, and get to enjoy a longer battery life. But until then, these KS6’s definitely rock my world!

As for the triple tap I prefer the single volume control of the Resound app. But I was happy to get it working, another techie toy to play with

Hi,
I’ve been trying to find a bluetooth system that will work with my Costco Signature KS6 hearing aids. I have the phone clip+ and I was wondering what model # your Jabra Bluetooth adapter is.

Thanks for your help

The Jabra is one that I’ve had for years now. Even when I bought it they were hard to find as they were discontinued back then. I have tried over the years to find another one to purchase so I’d have a backup in case this one fails to no avail. But it is the Jabra A7010 Bluetooth Adapter. Someone here on the board uses another Bluetooth to phone adapter which may still be available, but I forget which one it is and who that user was.

Has anyone updated to IOS 9.2.1?

If so have you had any connectivity issues with KS6 Hearing Aids?

@Vanwall said:

Has anyone updated to IOS 9.2.1?

If so have you had any connectivity issues with KS6 Hearing Aids?

I am on 9.2.1. It is working fine for me.

@Vanwall said:

Has anyone updated to IOS 9.2.1?

If so have you had any connectivity issues with KS6 Hearing Aids?

Also on 9.2.1 with 6 Plus and no problems with the KS6’s. Though I wish I could say the same for the iMessage notifications … silence, no sounds even after changing them back and forth. Facebook Messaging is fine, playing whatever I select.

@U_Said_What_8 said:

Do any of you K6 users have their programming set up so that one of the presets turns the bluetooth off?

If I have my hearing aides bluetoothed to my iPhone when I’m in my Ford Edge, an incoming call will ring into my hearing aides and will not be offered up to Ford’s Sync until I press the answer button on the iPhone 5S’s display. If I disable the K6s (by opening the battery compartment), an incoming call will go directly to the Ford’s Sync function and I can answer the call without touching the iPhone. The later is the functionality that I’d prefer and that is why I’d like to be able to turn the K6’s bluetooth on/off.

I have an appointment Thursday evening at Costco to get the firmware updated in my K6s. (Since upgrading to iOS 9.2, pressing the home button 3 times does not bring up the K6s control screen on my phone as it did before updating the iPhone’s operating system.) Hopefully the Tech will also be able to give me the ability to turn bluetooth on or off. I’ll report back on how well it goes at Costco.

I’m in a 2011 Toyota RAV4 with an aftermarket Alpine made for iPhone stereo. It’s not Car Play nor strictly iPhone, but is 100% iPhone compatible. When a call comes in when I’m in my car, it goes straight to the Alpine, not my KS6 aids. Pushing the Phone button on the Alpine head unit takes me right to Siri and full voice control, including telling her what to play, asking her questions, and even having a conversation with her My only negative is that playing iPhone music streams into my aids as well as over the speakers, though unusually so the phone calls and Siri do not? I would think it would all stream, though I’m happy the two do not. Turning off the streaming to the aids seems to disable the iPhone music going Bluetooth into the stereo. Go figure.

Brianric - Thanks! Turning streaming off works to have the incoming call appear on my Edge’s console! I was happy for your solution as the Costco audiologist said there is no way that I can control the hearing aide’s bluetooth!

I also want to report that upgrading the firmware on my aides restored the iPhone triple home button press functionality!

Hi All,
I am a newcomer to the hearing aid world, and to this thread. I recently picked up my KS6 HAs from our local Costco, and have been using them for about 4 weeks.
As a retired aerospace engineer, I naturally have a tendency to look into the physics behind any piece of technology many of us use in our daily lives. I am learning quite a bit in perusing these threads on the whole audiometry scene, with which I was not familiar heretofore.
While a number of questions have occurred, one of the first is to how the 4 programs (Normal, Restaurant, Traffic and Music) are created? Since the major variables that can be changed are Volume and Frequency, how are these manipulated in creating the 4 set programs initially? Also, are they tailored to the specific hearing profile of the customer? And is the setup a matter of continual refinement in concert with your Costco audiologist?
Comments would be appreciated.

FREQ. L R
250 15 15
500 35 20
1000 30 25
2000 50 55
3000 60 60
4000 55 60
6000 65 65
8000 55 60
PTA 38.3 33.3

There are features that may or my not improve things in a particular situation.

• noise suppression
• wind suppression
• feedback suppression

A program may enhance or weaken one or more of those features. Music is an oft discussed setting that turns way down the above. A pure tone from a flute will wobble or be suppressed by the aid which isn’t the wished for result. Think semi-intelligent filters.