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WOW!!! This is great news!! We love to send a few pieces of our transmitters to a few Oticon Intent Auracast users to test. Please let me know if you are interested.

Phoebe from Avantree

I’ve been using some Bernafon Encanta hearing aids (same platform as the Oticon Intent) with today. It has worked well with the Avantree C82 Aura and the Avantree Voyager. I haven’t noticed any dropouts so far.

My setup used the following versions:

  • Aids had firmware 1.3.0 (from Bernafon fitting software 2025.2)
  • Bernafon App was 1.6.1
  • C82 Aura had 20.6.0 firmware (and was plugged into a windows PC - no special drivers needed)
  • Avantree Voyager had 20.6.8 firmware

The Bernafon app now includes an Auracast Assistant (like the Resound app), which means you don’t need to rely on your phone having that functionality natively. All my testing was done with a old Samsung S21 which doesn’t itself have any Auracast capability.

In Australia, the Oticon fitting software is still at 2025.1 and the Oticon app is still at 1.5.2 in the Play Store, so I couldn’t test the Intents.

I used the Voyager with a TV - no lipsync issues were noticable. A just-noticable sound delay if the speakers of the TV were also on at the same time, but I didn’t think it was a problem.

Thanks to Avantree for sending out the transmitters to test this setup.

I’ve been using the Avantree Aura (thanks Phoebe) with Philips 9050 hearing aids (firmware 1.3.0). Phone is a Pixel 8 Pro. I’ve been using both the built-in Pixel assistant and the Philips app (1.6.1). They both work. My experience of the Aura mirrors that of @MikeSA. Stable, range is about the same as on my phone which is about 15 metres indoors, plug and play out of the box. Does what it’s supposed to do.

If anyone else wants to throw hardware at me to test… :slight_smile:

I have the Aura and Pixel 9 pro. It works well but I find it slightly too loud even at the lowest volume setting. I have a Mac and the updater software has a slider to adjust the volume but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

chrisb and d_Wooluf - just to clarify, when you say" “Aura” are your referring to the C82 Aura? Avantree sells quite a few products which have “Aura” in the product name.

In reply to @MikeSA

Send your contact and shipping address to cs@qkaudio.com We will ask the HomeSpot CS team to arrange the shipment. BA210 v2 are used in many church sanctuaries of size 500+ ppl. In terms of distance with line-of-sight, we just did a test with an bone conduction headset in a street in Belgium, 140m for front/top direction and 90m for left/right direction.

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