Blue tooth

[fred]

New hearing aids have blue tooth capability. Work perfectly with Spotify on phone but drop out occasionally when listening to Spotify on newish Dell desk top. Why should this happen ??

[Adrian Caspersz]

Is your desktop also using WiFi?

[Chris Green]

Because it's bluetooth.

[Jethro_uk]

Bluetooth is shit ?

[Andy Bennet]

Probably because your hearing aid is a Bluetooth class 2 or 3 device which will have a low permitted transmit power (<2.5mW) to prolong battery life. This wll decrease reliable range.

[charles]

The hearing aid is receiving, not transmitting

[Fredxx]

All forms of WiFi are subject to clutter and noise.

If you want reliable then use wire.

I do wonder if there might be another Bluetooth or Wifi, close by, causing interference.

[Fredxx]

It will be doing both, if only to accept/ack the audio packets.

Without knowledge about the Bluetooth stack it's difficult to comment more, but I doubt it will be the equivalent of a pure UDP one way coms.

[Jethro_uk]

Presumably it's using HFP/HSP ? Which I've not got to work with my (Linux) laptop in 4 years.

That's before you get to the A2DP and LTE issues ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

both actually on a digital link

Bluetooth hops around frequency wise. You need to know when that is going to happen

[mm0fmf]

Not all Bluetooth hardware and / or software is created equal. Some works brilliantly and some is really unreliable.

Depends on who designed it, who wrote the software.

[Paul]

Stop using the USB3 ports and retest.

USB3 ports are only an issue, when working equipment is running off them. There can be

2.4GHz emissions which conflict with BT or Wifi. Because the emissions are broad spectrum, even the frequency hopping the BT does, is not enough to counteract the problem. A 5GHz Wifi band will have no problem at all, as there is a null at 5GHz for USB3.0.

Also, make sure the Bluetooth nano dongle is line-of-sight to the recipient. I had trouble with BT and stuff in the way (to a minor extent, a poor excuse). I put the BT dongle on a short extender cable and things started working.

Paul

[The Natural Philosopher]

No shit, Sherlock

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Different versions of bluetooth? Too many people using bluetooth, driver issues?? Brian

[fred]

Yes my desktop uses wi fi as does my phone

[fred]

Except I'm sitting in front of the computer

[fred]

What, wire my hearing aids to the computer ?

[fred]

You've lost me there. Why would my computer be using a USB3 port for blue tooth?

[GB]

The OP has not said he's using a dongle. Could the BT be on the motherboard, inside a steel case? :)

[fred]

For various reasons I have a total of 4 blue tooth headphones . 3 Sony and one Panasononic. All work faultlessly with the computer