In the ReSound Smart Fit software there is a box that gives you the options of:
Reset to Initial Fit
Read Instrument Data
My question is this: Does Reset to Initial Fit do a factory reset, or take you back to the settings of the actual first fitting as entered into the software. I created a patient, I saved my data. Will it take me back to that if I make any future changes that I don’t like? (I already have my original data backed up in an XML file and as a separate patient in case anyone was going to suggest that.)
Thanks
Read Instrument Data
My question is this: Does Reset to Initial Fit do a factory reset, or take you back to the settings of the actual first fitting as entered into the software.
Reset to initial fit will take you back to the 1st fitting.
Read instrument data will open the fitting with your current settings.
It’s not the as such that’s knows, as in ,it will be the audiologist fitting if you choose this as your client, or it will be the client you set up, only one client is set up in the HA at any one time.
So reading from the HA and the client need to match, but SmartFit will tell you if there’s a mismatch, so you can’t go wrong here.
I’m sorry, but none of the above is answering the question. If I connect my to Smart Fit as a new patient and I save the setting fresh from the fitter is that the “Initial Fit” that the device gets reset to, or does it reset the HA to the factory defaults without personalization?
The mismatch notification is a different story. That clearly gives you a choice between what’s written to the HA vs a specific date, If Initial Fit gave a specific date, there would be no issue.
I understand the question and I use Smart Fit. I think it works like this:
When the new aids are taken out of the packet by your audiologist, they have a default fit already, nothing to do with you and with no knowledge of your loss. This is what you get if you go back to “factory settings”.
The audiologist measures your and this is fed into Smart Fit. When he/she connects to your hearing aids and starts the fitting session, Smart Fit calculates a proposed fit from the audiogram and the various options the audiologist chooses. This is the “Initial Fit”. Normally the audiologist then might make some adjustments, particularly if the customer is an experienced user and can already hear things that need changing. At the end of the session, the audiologist saves the fit to the database on their computer and to the hearing aids.
A key thing to know is that the initial fit and the adjusted final fit are both saved to the database and the hearing aids.
So if you now take those hearing aids and setup a new patient in Smart Fit Standalone, whether or not you enter an audiogram first, you will see when you connect that the gain curves show both the current settings (in solid lines) and the initial fit (in dotted lines). If you choose to return to the initial fit, then you will see the actual fit now sits along those dotted lines.
If you have entered an audiogram manually then you can ask SmartFit to “recalculate” the fitting and the dotted lines now reflect that change. You can tell the software to use those recalculated values or you can just leave them there as useful information.
When you save the session, the most recent initial fit and the adjusted fit will both be saved to the database and to the hearing aids.
So after all of that, you don’t want to return to factory settings and the initial fit is probably what you want, but what exactly that initial fit will be depends on exactly what you have done!
I hope that is clear and I also hope it’s correct. It’s how I understand it to be anyway.
From https://forum.hearingtracker.com/t/resound-smartfit-gain-diagrams/408011 (unavailable) :
The dotted lines on the gain curves are what the canned program would give you based upon the without audiologist intervention.
The solid lines are the result of whatever tweaking was done at the fitting.
Resound does not in any of the literature I’ve read define which of those are the "Initial Fit.
"Smart Fit calculates a proposed fit from the audiogram and the various options the audiologist chooses. This is the “Initial Fit”. "
I don’t know what you are trying to convey here. Has the audiologist made any changes yet or is just looking at the proposed gain curves and options available without making any changes?
The initial fit is what the Smart Fit software calculates from the including taking into account possibly bone conducted readings or not, the details of receivers, moulds, domes etc, size of vent, the audiologists choice of which fitting profile and similar. But not including any gain changes the audiologist then may make during that first fitting session.
From ReSound Aventa Manual: “The Fitting System uses the + algorithm to interpret audio gram data for determining optimal gain settings. The parameter used is “first time user”. This may give a less than optimal initial fitting but should not pose a safety risk. The algorithm has been independently validated with the specification and verified to be consistent with Fitting Software.”
So, the “Initial Fit” is what ReSound suggests based upon the audiogram, and using Audiogram+, First Time User. No audiologist choices are involved.
No that isn’t quite right. When the audiologist first sets the aids up, he/she has to specify the receivers used, the domes/moulds and vent sizes. It’s only after all of that is done that Smart Fit calculates the initial fit. Then the next stage before even viewing the gain curves is to calibrate the DFS. Then after that the software displays the gain curves.
The reduced gain for an inexperienced user is applied to the initial fit. It’s not part of the initial fit, as I understand it. You can easily change it anyway. It’s just a setting.
Anyway I don’t think there’s any point in us arguing about it. You obviously think you know what you are doing and I was only trying to help. I’ll leave you to it. I hope it all goes well.
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