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Oticon Easy LE Adapter available in Europe

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I can’t speak French :unamused:

It will need Genie 25.1 and Intent f/w 1.2.0.
Looks like $125.00 US
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What interests me is the new firmware on the Intent. Someone was complaining somewhere else about the lack of on the intent. Someone else- claiming to be a hearing health professional- aluded to a specific upcoming firmware update that he’d been notified about that would enable Auracast on the intent. The LE Adapter seems to support Auracast. Just doing 2+2 in my head here.

Try this:

@eliotb I’ve included a link here12 that gives a basic explanation of the latest Bluetooth standard.
The Oticon adapter allows android phones which do not support this standard, to stream directly to the Intents, and allow hands-free calls. It does have a port which allows it to do bypass charging of the phone, as well.
Hope that helps.

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Thanks for responding so promptly and the helpful link. I use Apple products. I’m an old guy and I think situations where others would want to hear my audio would be few and very far between! Perhaps the $125 is best put toward new shocks for my old Jag! It keeps saying “fix me, fix me” and I can hear that loud and clear even without Bluetooth!

I now have one of the Easy LE adapters, ordered from a shop in the Netherlands. It works pretty well on my Intent 1s, which have firmware 1.1.0. Using it for Teams on my laptop.

Do I understand correctly that this adapter does not support the proprietary Oticon protocol? And all older hearing aids are not supported? If so, shame on Oticon again. They don’t produce anything new themselves.

You are correct , with this bluetooth adapter you need an hearing aid which support Bluetooth . So curently only the Oticon Intent hearing aids have Bluetooth LE Audio. (and the following Oticon generations onward)

So the older Oticon hearing aids (OPN , OPN , Xceed, Play, More, Real, Play PX) could not connect to this Bluetooth Adapter and need the Oticon Connect Clip.

I just have Xceed, so I’m far behind the technological progress. I tried Connectclip, but it comes into some kind of conflict with the old platform and gradually lowers the volume during playback.

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@anon33641277 said:

Do I understand correctly that this adapter does not support the proprietary Oticon protocol? And all older hearing aids are not supported? If so, shame on Oticon again.

Don’t blame Oticon.
The Bluetooth standard just became available, and older firmware of pre 2024 hearing aids, not just Oticon.will not support it.
The latest and greatest Phonaks don’t support it (they say it will be available via an update, but no timetable as of this time).
I applaud the fact that Oticon has introduced the LE Adapter, so my older Pixel can use LEA, and with my Intents.
I understand the frustration users of the Velox and Polaris platform models are faced with, as well as all the other brands made prior to last year.

@anon33641277 said:

The point is that Oticon does not respect its users, leaving them without support. Connectlip is actually garbage - it has a unreplaceable battery that lasts for six months.

I’m sorry you’ve had bad luck with Oticon,
My experience differs from yours in that I get my through the , and get prompt repairs when needed ( usually just receivers).
I have 3 CClips going back to my original OPN, and they all still work, but the 2 newest ones have the problem of dropping the volume on incoming calls, so I just retired them.

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No, you don’t understand. It’s not just me who was unlucky with Oticon, but everyone. There are no other accessories for connection, except Connectclip with falling volume, and Edumic for schools. There is no USB adapter with the proprietary Oticon protocol. There is no desk microphone. If we take into account problems of Connectclip, only the TV adapter remains available. It’s a shame.

Regarding the falling volume of the Connect Clip, it’s Windows fault I think, because it doesn’t happen with Android? To fix it, I always set it to 100 in windows, it doesn’t fall from there, then use a software like Equalizer APO to adjust the actual maximum output of Connect Clip by setting the Preamp equalizer to a value like 12 db (depends on your deafness I think). It’s working pretty well, I can set youtube and spotify volume at maximum, or Teams Calls work well too.

Thank you for answer, but no, this problem is somewhere between Connectclip and hearing aids. It repeats with Windows, iMac, Android and iPhone paired with CC. My friend has the same problem with different CC. I have Xceed 1 and 2, he has Opn and Opn S. I think this problem was solved by firmware update in More and Real. But who knows, this problem is not clearly visible because it occurs between different musical or video clips, so it looks like different volume in these clips. But no, volume falls lower and lower and may reach zero volume.

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