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Hello all - I am trialing a pair of Widex SmartRIC 440 hearing aids (quite happy with them so far, except for the stupid lack of button!) and have a question about saving settings when using the Compass fitting software.

I’ve successfully loaded Compass into my computer, and my Noahlink quickly finds and connects my hearing aids. I’ve set up two profiles, with the intention of copying the hearing aids’ existing settings (set by the audiologist) into the first profile and then duplicating those settings into the second profile. I could then play with the settings in the second profile while always being able to return to the audiologist’s original settings stored in the first profile.

However, I’m confused about how saving works within Compass.

  1. Do I save the audiologist’s setting to profile #1 by starting a Compass session, then without making any changes clicking on “end session” in the upper right corner and selecting the box “Save fitting in your database”?

  2. If I’ve changed some settings just to experiment but don’t wish to save them, I assumed I could just click “end session” and NOT check the “Save fitting in your database,” and the settings would then not be saved. However, right below the checkbox for “save fitting in your database,” it says “The fitting has already been saved in the Hearing Aids.” Does this mean that there’s no way to choose NOT to save changes one has made in Compass, and any setting changes are in fact automatically saved within the hearing aids without requiring that I proactively save them?

As you can see, I may be a bit confused about the relationship between the database on my computer, the database on the audiologist’s computer, and the settings within the hearing aid itself. Thanks for any guidance!

Hi there, hmmmm yeah question 1 would be correct, as for question 2 seems it’s like the Connexx software does the changes on the fly, I haven’t used compass since I had the old Evoke models, but saving to database and are two different things,just use the back arrow from the top right corner and that will “undo” any changes you’ve made and then just close compass, I think that could work, but did you read the compass user guides that was sent on how to manually save, should be something there at 152 pags long :wink:

Thanks Tenkan. I have skimmed through the user guide, and there’s a great deal of useful information. However, I can find just about nothing regarding saving settings, and whether there’s any way to avoid automatically save changes to the hearing aid.

There’s also very little about how the databases relate to the hearing aid. There are settings stored in the hearing aid itself, there are settings stored in the audiologist’s database, and there are settings stored in my databases (one of which - profile #1 - should be identical to the audi’s database, the other of which - profile #2 - would contain changes that I made). But I’m not clear how the database settings connect to the settings inside the . I guess the HA simply holds whatever settings were in the last profile/database it was connected to?

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