Bluetooth help please

If you know what hearing aid you are getting, can you find a manual online to explain a bit more?

I would *expect* it to work like an earphone with any bluetooth mobile phone.

In simple terms, your hearing aid is a *type* of headphones.

The majority (maybe all) of 'smart phones' these days have the facility to connect to any other bluetooth enabled device.

Yes it should. You have to pair the items first of course and its those instructions for the phone and the hearing aid that you need.

However having said that, I cannot get a bluetooth enabled amplifier to work with my I phone yet a keyboard does.

If its a home phone, then I'm not sure if any phones offer this facility, but I'd imagine if you have a phone that a headset can be used with, then one of these bluetooth transmitters might work. I see them all the time on Amazon used for all sorts of things. Be aware though that the latency can cause echo effects. Brian

Indeed they do so that means there is absolutely no need to spend out on a new model. A used one from ebay with a quick reference to the spec via google to check for blue tooth should be more than adequate.

I thought the O/P wanted a blutooth enabled landline, not smartphone?

On re-reading it could be that but the question was not clear. My initial assumption was that BT was need to control/adjust the hearing aid but that also might not be the requirement either.

Moral of the story. Ask specific questions and don't assume others are equipped with a crystal ball.

He didn't say. It's a reasonable assumption he'll want every phone he has to work, be that landline or mobile.

The magic phrase is "Headset Profile", the way in which headsets, headphones with microphones etc. talk to and can control Bluetooth audio devices such as phones, MP3 players etc.

Plenty of DECT phones come with bluetooth these days.

He did last month ...

Headset or Handsfree ? I have a vague memory that HS is just audio, whereas HF allows for the button to trigger software on the device (such as dial-by-voice).

I know because I spent the better part of a day trying to get a HS earpiece to trigger Google Assistant and wondering why it refused to work.

It shouldn?t matter what they talk about. As far as the phone is concerned there is no difference between headphones and a hearing aid.

You can thank Apple for that state of affairs. Their Bluetooth implementation is idiosyncratic, to say the least. It's one of the reasons I switched back to Samsung when it became apparent that my old Iphone4 couldn't hack it any more.

With Bluetooth devices normally there are two of them and you have to 'pair' them so that they will communicate with each other.

I don't understand why you would want to do this with a phone and a hearing aid given that you you could hold the phone next to the aid.

I wonder if you need an Android app to adjust the hearing aid? Such apps do exist.

Many thanks for all the helpful replies. I must apologize for my question not being clear, however my question has been answered. It was the "headphones" that I could not understand, I did not realise that is included hearing aids. As regards not understanding why I cannot just place the phone near my hearing aid to hear the phone call I imagine that poster has no hearing problem. Phones are very difficult to use if you a partial hearing, an the load speaker mode is often very distorted.

That's what the "T" position on a hearing aid is for. Switches off the microphone and switches on a magnetic pickup coil. Assuming the phone has a coil based ear piece transducer you get a direct feed of the phone into your aid. Also useable at many checkouts and in cinemas, theatres other venues equiped with a "loop" system.

I would hope an hearing aid with Bluetooth has it in addition to "T".

I find T particularly useful in public halls where the PA system isn't properly set up. You can hear the speaker very clearly.