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Apo47

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Registered: 2021-11-03

Posts: 1

Hearing Aid - Support Possible?

Hello,
i hope im right here to post my request.
I have hearing aids, because i got problem with my ears.
The new hearing Aids uses Bluetooth Low Energy to connect with other PCs/TVs.
The problem is: only Apple iOS and Android 10 (and above) known my hearing aid as headphone.
I can pair and "use" them on my PC (on Linux and Windows), but both do not know what to do with it.
I wrote the Company to help me to connect, but the Company says, that they do not program the services,
They resell "Streeamer" to connect with all, but there are expensive and i only need to connect to my computer.
Apple iOS have the support and Android with the ASHA-Protocol.
I do not know hot to write and program a GATT service and found no easy tutorial for it.
Is it possible to make a hearing aid support in Arch Linux?
Maybe is it possible to "copy" the ASHA-Protocol to Linux easily?
I would help, if i can, maybe someone know a tutorial which help me, to do it on my own.
greets
Apo

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,279

Re: Hearing Aid - Support Possible?

One thing you can do is connect your hearing aid to android and then stream your pc audio to android.

https://kaytat.com/blog/?page_id=301 ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … ocolplayer )
also read this if you use pipewire: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … otocol-tcp

Here some information about the status of support in linux:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/1370
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/1211
Edit: That is the bluetooth audio group proposal. There seems to be no effort to implement the Google version (ASHA)? (There is this one tweet)

Last edited by progandy (2021-11-03 15:42:46)

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