ReSound Nexia - How to connect to Auracast with your phone and hearing aids

In this quick demonstration, we show you how to connect to an Auracast broadcast stream with your phone and hearing aids. Find out more about ReSound Nexia: www.resound.com/en/hearing-ai...

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Assuming you have Resound Nexia hearing aids, and your audiologist has already helped you pair them to the Resound 3D app for your phone, the Streamer+ pairing process is as follows: 1. Your streamer+ must be plugged into your TV audio output jack(s) and must be plugged in to power. There’s a white LED on the back of the Streamer+ to indicate it has power. 2. Press the pairing button on the back of the Streamer+ device. The front panel green light will flash. 3. Immediately tap on the 3D app “More” button (bottom right corner of app), then tap on “Pair new wireless accessory.” 4. The Streamer+ should show up on your app screen. Tap it to continue. Tap on finish. The green light on the Streamer+ front panel should be on steadily if pairing was successful. 5. After about 20 seconds, you should hear the TV audio in your hearing aids, and a new Streamer+ screen button will appear on your 3D app main screen. Tapping this Streamer+ app button will toggle streaming on and off. A note: Many newer TVs don’t have the correct jacks to use this Streamer+ device, but many do already have a built-in Bluetooth transmitter that can stream directly to hearing aids. When I connected this Streamer+ to my older Sony TV (that does have the correct optical audio jack), it wouldn’t stream audio. Turns out the optical audio jack only outputs audio when playing broadcasts or DVDs that have 5.1 audio. Regular broadcast stereo TV won’t play audio over the optical audio jack. So, for Streaming regular TV, your TV needs to have left and right audio output jacks (most don’t have these). If your TV doesn’t have left and right audio output jacks, then if your TV has a headphone jack, you could buy a “3.5mm male to male stereo cable” that plugs into the TV headphone jack and plugs into the back of this Streamer+. This could work to stream TV audio, but would cut off the audio to anyone watching TV with you (because plugging into a headphone jack usually cuts off the main TV speakers.