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In reply to @coastal_california

I’m an engineer and I have no idea how this can work without OS and CODEC support in IOS. I’ll have to look into this. (Unless they are doing some sort of emulation over Bluetooth but that’s just a guess ). Thanks, now instead of eating hot dogs and burgers , I’ll be stuck researching this.
For those of you in the USA , Happy 4th of July !

In reply to @Flyboybob

I have being transmitted from my somewhat vintage Samsung TV with a Homespot Broadcaster I bought on Amazon. I absolutely love it as we watch many shows that originate in Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand and sometimes making out the accented dialogue is a pain. Hope it’s adopted in airports where announcements are difficult to pick up clearly.
I’m using the Jabra 30s.

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In reply to @OcramSagev

Maybe the iPhone tells the Jabra Pro 30s to look for broadcasts and then report back. If there are Auracast broadcasts then the iPhone can tell the Jabra Pro 30 which one to connect to.

Nothing in the process requires the iPhones to be seeing or connect to Auracast broadcasts - it is just a way of controlling the Jabra Pro 30s

You may be correct, but why would I care? As the end user as long as I can receive through the app that’s all I care about. Now, I would like to find an Auracast broadcast somewhere to try it out. :thinking:

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In reply to @Flyboybob

I have the TV Streamer+, MultiMic+, and FlooGoo dongle that all work with iPhone and Jabra app.

The Assistant function in the Jabra app allows the phone to communicate with the , which are the devices that look for the Auracast broadcast.

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Fortunately, I don’t need any of those devices so I am still looking for an Auracast broadcast in the wild. I haven’t been to a movie in awhile and haven’t been to the airport this year. All I really want is to connect with my employer Windows PC. My company iPad wouldn’t allow me to download the Jabra app. I just want to get my $1,700 hearing aids to listen to and transmit during MS Teams meetings rather than removing the hearing aids and puttting on $1.25 pair of earbuds.

@Flyboybob said:

My company iPad wouldn’t allow me to download the Jabra app. I just want to get my $1,700 hearing aids to listen to and transmit during MS Teams meetings rather than removing the hearing aids and puttting on $1.25 pair of earbuds.

I don’t have Jabra aids but the Costco page for the Enhace Pro 30 aids claims direst streaming from Compatible Apple and Android devices. That implies that the Jabra aids are MFI and the Enhace Pro aids are listed on Apples MFI list. I use MFI aids (Oticon Real 1) to stream from my work iPad and I do not need the Oticon app to stream. I have Teams but we don’t use it typically unless a customer requires it.

I would expect that you could connect your aids to your company iPad using Settings → Accessibility → Hearing Devices. Once you have paired them, you should be able to use the MFI controls to adjust volume, program and other things without loading or using the Jabra app. A triple click on the iPad power button should bring up the MFI controls. At least with my aids, you can select whether the aid microphones or the iPad microphone is used to pickup your voice (Mic input setting OFF uses the iPad).

That’s right. I should be able to see the hearing aids in accessibility on the iPod. Thanks.

In reply to @biggar

I tried that this morning. My work iPad is so locked down by our Nazi IT department, that the hearing devices, in the Accessibility section, would never discover my hearing aids. I can switch off the iPhone Bluetooth, then switch on the Bluetooth on my personal iPad and the hearing aids work great.

I have no idea what your state and company rules are with respect to disabilities. In my case, when the old phone system was switched out for a VOIP system at work, I asked about getting a phone with bluetooth as Cisco, the selected VOIP vendor, had a few fancier models with bluetooth. I got nowhere with IT but when HR (Disability Resource Center) got involved, I got a new phone and that phone was added to the list of acceptable phones for the system :slightly_smiling_face:.

You might see if your HR people would help - I found it useful to be able to make detailed suggestions and reasons why the change would be useful. You could request that the accessibility setup for your iPad be remove from any form of lockdown. For your computer you could ask for an appropriate Jabra device that accepts analog sound (like from the computer headphone jack) and transmits to you aids directly using or MFI (I use an Oticon TV adapter with my computer). Or a FlooGoo device which would become your audio device and transmit using LE Audio. Looking at the Costco Jabra page, they show a TV adapter and a Multi Mic that has a line-in that can stream audio. You might be able to use an Apple (or 3rd party) device that plugs into the iPad port (usb-c or lightning) and has a audio output via stereo mini-jack outlet with either the TV adapter or the Multi Mic.

As a last resort, you could use large cup, around the ear headphones while wearing your hearing aids. I’m able to use some old Beyer DT 770 pro closed-back headphones (purchased long before I got aids) without feedback with my aids.

Good luck.

Actually, I found a solution which will work for $50. I don’t want to get HR involved. I live and work in Texas, where we have a disabled governor. He continually makes cuts to state disability money. He collected over three million dollars from his accident, and then signed a bill capping pain and suffering jury awards to a maximum of $25,000 per injury. Also, I’m very a cheap person. What I can do, is to forward my MS Teams invite to my personal email, and then log on to the meeting on my personal iPad. I hope MIcrocrap will eventually smell the roses and make their Bluetooth compatible with any CODEC, or go to LE Bluetooth so I can listen through my iPhone.

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