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I looked at the different programs, presently I have General, Speech in Noise, My Music, and TV Streaming. I’m disappointed with Speech in Noise, seems to increase ambient level without any apparent benefit to emphasize speech. One of the areas I will work on.

Welcome to the forum, great your giving a go, be sure to do some research and read the user guides before starting, you’ll need the Noahlink wireless programming device for any DIY projects.

I notice if I click the Windows X to exit Genie, it gives me the choice of saving in either the database and/or the instruments. I assume all changes are immediately reflected in the instrument, if I exit the program with neither box checked, then the instruments revert back to their original settings?
If I choose to save in the instruments and not in the database at exit, then there is a mismatch between the instruments and the database, if one then opens Genie back up and select that client, then presumably the instruments will change immediately upon connect to match the client?

Good on you for finally getting a handle on this, not sure why it’s relevant tho, but just make sure you always save to and database :wink: no confusion and easy enough.

Fired up Genie, with my new Noahlink, created a “golden” account for my More’s (starting with them to make sure I know what I’m doing), connected and waited anxiously for the download process to finish. All went well, so followed up with my Intent’s, of course in a new “golden” account.

For you newbies out there, who like myself are trying to make sure not to modify any data in the instruments, the software is sane. After the initial connect process, where Genie identifies the instruments, one clicks Continue to transfer all the data into the empty client. A msg indicates the aids and database don’t agree (good thing since started with empty client), and gives choice of “Use Instrument Data” or “Start New Client”. Obviously choose the “Use Instrument Data” or you will wipe out your aids settings.

After completion of download, Save and Exit provides two checkboxes, save in database and save in instrument. Being super cautious, I only checked the database. Everything finishes up and the aids disconnect.

One minor thing to watch out for, when I started another client, my Intent’s, now back in my ears, showed up with the More’s. Turned them off, and continued on with the More’s only. Apparently th instruments remain in pairing mode for a significant length of time.

@rasworth said:

One minor thing to watch out for, when I started another client, my Intent’s, now back in my ears, showed up with the More’s. Turned them off, and continued on with the More’s only. Apparently th instruments remain in pairing mode for a significant length of time.

You must of tried reconnecting quite soon, what would you call a significant length of time? After clicking save did you get the restart chime in your or restart them manually I wonder.

Wasn’t paying real close attention, but as I remember finished the process with the Intent’s, the aids were live (I think) when I put them in my ear. Spent a minute or two looking at the results, then created another client and went back to the More’s. When I got to the connect point was when I saw 4 aids pop up instead of 2. Maybe total of 5 minutes.

Not an issue many will see, have to have two generations of wireless connect hearing aids, and be popping back and forth.

yeah that would make sense, your right tho, it’s not gonna be an issue for most people in , keep up the good work and keep everyone updated on your progress, it’s always interesting to see if people are happier with their DIY project over what the original audiology settings were, cheers

i”m still poking around in Genie, without modifying aids, trying to up my confidence is using so as not to clobber anything in my aids. Tried the following experiment, with aids disconnected:

  1. Select a client, previously created by dumpting aids
  2. Click on fit, then program manager
  3. Select General, then switch to the next program, then back to General with no changes made
  4. Select Save and Exit, it will always ask if I want to save changes to the database, even though no changes made

Is this just a Genie oddity, i.e they’re going to flag that a change has been made even though nothing has, or am I missing something?

Don’t worry about it, it’s nothing to worry about, you didn’t change anything so nothing gets changed, other then the timestamp…

@rasworth said:

trying to up my confidence is using so as not to clobber anything in my aids.

Mate your completely over thinking this, you’ll be fine, go for it :+1:

I’m not quite as chicken as I appear, I have appt with audi in couple of days, thought I would give her a chance at adjusting before I start dinking with settings. Spending time in simulation modes, reading the help screens, has enabled me to create some intelligent questions, I think.

For the group - I have, or will have, a “golden” client, than I leave alone. I haven’t found any means to copy the settings from the golden client to trial clients, seems like a useful function missing from Genie?

@rasworth said:

I haven’t found any means to copy the settings from the golden client to trial clients, seems like a useful function missing from Genie?

This could help, but it’s in the user guides I believe as well.

Oticon settings transfer
Hello, I need help trying to transfer the settings from 1 pair of Oticon More1 aids to a second pair of More1 aids. Recently I bought a second pair of HA’s as backups and would like to simply use the same settings I have in the original pair, hopefully it’s that simple. I’ve looked in the software help file but it to vague for my abilities. Hopefully there’s someone here who can assist Thanks

Not trying to copy settings from one set of aids to another, just trying to dup client. Nevermind, can do it with export/import, creates identical client with different id.

Oh well even easier, yeah just make up 2 clients, make as many as you want, you could have a client with different formula’s and receiver’s,domes etc lots of possibilities for you.

Finally, some results. My Audi had my Intent1s cranked down on Neural Noise Suppression, in General program, stating that I didn’t need them and they could distort some sounds.

So I upped Easy environment from 2db to 8db, sitting in quiet room with clothes dryer running in background. I noticed the dryer sound diminished, but it wasn’t objectionable to begin with, so I left setting at 2.

Upped the Difficult from 6 (yes, Audi had it set that low) to 12, didn’t notice any change in quiet environment, which makes sense. I like the difference in noisy environments (watched a football game on TV with loud crowd/background noise, and volume turned up), accentuates the speech and diminishes the noise.

In the help screen in states clearly that the setting is for maximum NNS, as far as I can tell no reason to not push it to 12, at least in Difficult, I’m paying for 12 so why not get it? I think my Audi misunderstood the setting, thought it was default, and the instruments would still use the extra if needed. Not my experience so far, will keep evaluating.

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