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How to stream audio from MacBook to Oticon Opn hearing aids?

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Hi, I’m wearing Oticon OPN’s. I use the Bluetooth feature often. My phone, TV adapter and car. All play directly into my .

I have a need to take an online class on my MacBook and I can not figure out how to pipe the audio to my Oticons.

The audio is driving my wife Nutz.

Any hints on what I need to do?

You will need the connect clip to pair with your aids and the MacBook. Also, depending on the age of the MacBook you may need a dongle that Oticon recommends

Also Oticon Bluetooth is a misnomer, what it really is , made for IOS. Now the More aids while still being MFi or also made for Android but only a certain number of devices will work at this time

@6b7958d1addc9d4c3949 said:

Hi, I’m wearing Oticon OPN’s. I use the Bluetooth feature often. My phone, TV adapter and car. All play directly into my HAs.

I have a need to take an online class on my MacBook and I can not figure out how to pipe the audio to my Oticons.

The most general solution would be to purchase an Oticon ConnectClip and have it paired with you hearing aids (MFI) and your MacBook (Bluetooth). That allows for a bi-directional connection. An alternate for the online class would be to connect your TV Adapter to the audio output of the MacBook but that is only one-way from the MacBook to the hearing aids via the Adapter. I use a TV Adapter for my TV and the ConnectClip for connecting to computers and a bluetooth VOIP phone at work with my OPN S 1 aids.

If you have an iPad, the hearing aids can connect directly to that (like an iPhone) and your online class should “just work” in that case. However, you may have to turn off Bluetooth in the phone when connecting to the iPad and then turn off the bluetooth in the iPad and turn it back on in the iPhone to reconnect the phone to your aids.

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Very good point from @biggar. If it’s only a one-time thing and the OP doesn’t want to pay for a ConnectClip (it runs for around $250-$280 on Amazon or eBay). he can simply use the TV Adapter’s RCA inputs to accept the headphones’ plug output from the Mac just the same. This approach also works for anything that has analog audio out (like for headphones).

Sometimes people think that the TV Adapter is only to be used with a TV, but that’s not true. I used to have an older laptop that does not have built-in Bluetooth, and the ConnectClip wasn’t available at the time anyway, so I just used its headphones analog output to drive my TV Adapter.

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