Can anyone tell me if there is a way to have the ring tone from my iphone 5s is audible to my starkey halo hearing aids?
Thanks!
There is not.
There is not.
Thank you! My audiologist told me that Apple needs to do something about that to make it work? But I think that Starkey should work together with them unless this absolutely impossible to do?
I'm not sure it is a simple thing to do. When I am wearing my wired headset, I do not hear the ringtone through the headset, but the phone still rings through the phone's speaker. This tells me that there is a hard-coded connection (perhaps even a physical connection) between the ring initiation code and the physical ringing of the phone.
Well, I will keep on digging, I hear the phone ringing when it is not in my pockets, so this is an issue for me in the winter when I wear my parka.
Thanks for comments!
When my phone is pared to my car I hear the phone ring in the car speakers so why not the hearing aid?
Your hearing aids use a special low-power Bluetooth connection. Your car audio system uses a standard Bluetooth connection. My earlier comment was incorrect. My apologies.
That is a very good point, when my phone is paired with my GPS, it works thru the GPS speakers as well.
Thanks!
Well, there still could be a light at the end of the tunnel, so why not improve the Bluetooth signals, too expensive?
Thanks!
It's not a matter of improving the Bluetooth signal, but the amount of power a standard Bluetooth connection uses. Hearing aid batteries last - at the top end - about a week. They last that long because they are designed to use as little power as they can get away with. Given the behavior of other battery-powered Bluetooth devices I have used over the years (those had to be recharged after a full day of use), hearing aid batteries would only last a matter of hours if they didn't use low-power Bluetooth.
OK, thanks!
Sorry, I'm back again, but I did some thinking about Bluetooth and lower power connection. It seems to me that all the streaming to the hearing aids for the phone and for music as well as internet radio which I use a lot, uses the same Bluetooth transmission and my batteries last pretty well 6 days. So, I feel that the ringtone for phone calls should work as well? I think it could be an oversight by Starkey since I can pair my iPhone to any Bluetooth devices including the hearing aids as mentioned above.
I just don't want to give up on this theory.
I agree, I can stream music, etc without hurting battery life appreciably. It would only seem reasonable to me that someone needing to wear hearing aid would also have an issue with hearing the iPhone ring, and almost the essential feature.
Thank you! I appreciate your comments.
Hello,
I know this is an old thread but I’ll comment in hopes of helping sort some of this out.
Yes the Halos work via Bluetooth. The iPhone and Halo communicate via airplay.
With That being said, airplay has two channels. One for notification and another for everything else. So when your phone has a notification, say alarm, timer or phone ringing, it goes to channel one, the phone speakers. Everything else, goes to channel 2.
On standard Bluetooth devices such as car stereos or GPS, airplay is not used thus all sounds are transmitted.
HTH and good luck.
It's not Airplay. There are two kinds of Bluetooth connections.
Bluetooth Low Energy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy) is the connection used by your iPhone to connect to your hearing aids.
Bluetooth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth) is the standard Bluetooth connection.
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