FMA120 Bluetooth 5.4 Dual-Mode Dongle – Supports aptX Lossless, Low-Latency Gaming, Auracast & A2DP-to-Auracast Relay, LE Audio, Hearing Aids, Microsoft Teams, and PS4/PS5/Nintendo Switch

Floogoo is the only manufacturer I know that actively tests hearing aid compatibility when users report issues. With all other transmitters, you're stuck with trial and error—returning it if it doesn't work with your hearing aids. I really appreciate their effort. Good company!I can confirm that this works with Oticon Intent.Prerequisites: Oticon Intent must have the latest firmware (1.2.1 as of now—the launch firmware will not work).You can use their app, FlooCast, to fine-tune the settings. Be patient during the first pairing; it may take a few minutes. If pairing fails repeatedly, turn off AptX and ensure only LC3 is enabled. Don’t use broadcast mode. (Make sure "Prefer LE Audio" and "Public Broadcast" are checked, and leave all other options off except LED.)All other Bluetooth devices paired to your hearing aids must be turned off during pairing. Turn off your phone’s Bluetooth. If you have paired your hearing aids to iPad/Mac, don't forget them. If you have a ConnectClip or TV Adapter, turn them off as well (they likely won’t interfere, but it’s better to be safe).Once paired, you don’t need to turn off the ConnectClip or TV Adapter to use this transmitter. It’s treated as a "phone" by the hearing aids, and Oticon Intent supports multiple Bluetooth connections. You can only have one device streaming audio at a time, but multiple devices can remain connected simultaneously.However, if your iPhone is paired to the hearing aids, you must turn its Bluetooth off in order to connect the FMA120 to your hearing aids. This is because the Made for iPhone (MFi) protocol assumes exclusive use of the hearing aids (you can still use a TV Adapter concurrently, but not a second phone connection).If you connect the FMA120 first, your iPhone won’t be able to stream audio to the hearing aids. If you connect the iPhone first, the FMA120 won’t stream. This is not like the TV Adapter and iPhone combination—those can both stay connected, and the second device can stream as long as the first isn’t actively streaming. With the FMA120 and iPhone, even if the first device is idle, the second cannot stream. So you do need to switch them manually.To switch between them, simply disable Bluetooth on one of the devices. For the FMA120, unplug it. For the iPhone, use Control Center. No need to unpair, don't try it.The signal strength is just slightly better than an iPhone, perhaps because the exposed USB pins are more vulnerable to interference. Any USB 3.0 device—such as an external HDD or SSD—will interfere with it if connected to the same USB hub. This is a known limitation of Bluetooth audio streaming.

I needed a way to stream audio from my Windows 11 Laptop and MacBook Air to my Signia Active Pro IX hearing aids. My hearing aids pair and connect great with my iPhone, but not my Laptop and MacBook because the hearing aids support Bluetooth LE Audio and not Bluetooth Classic.So, I searched and found the FlooGoo FMA120. Using the FlooCast software, I configured the FMA120 to use Bluetooth LE Audio. Once I did that, I had to forget the connection between my hearing aids and my iPhone before was able to pair and connect my hearing aids to the FMA120. After they were connected, I was able to stream audio from my Laptop to my hearing aids and also participate in Microsoft Teams meetings using my hearing aids as my headset.The only issue I found was there is no way to quickly switch the connection from my laptop to my iPhone or from my iPhone to my laptop. When I want to switch from one device to another, I must forget the Bluetooth connection form the currently connected device and then pair and connect my hearing aids to the other device.So far, this is the only solution I have found to stream audio directly from my laptop or MacBook to my Signia Active Pro IX hearing aids.

This is a great little dongle if you want your laptop to support LE audio and AuraCast devices, for example, my new hearing aids support this new technology and will not connect to older Bluetooth implementations.Setup is simple. Plug in the dongle and install Floocast (beats the floo out of me why it's called Floo!). Once setup, you'll see that you computer now shows a new speaker, the FMA120, and a new microphone, again, the FMA120.Next, you use the Floocast app to connect to your Bluetooth LE audio device. There are several options to be set, the defaults generally work (LE audio and AuraCast complicate things). Once your Bluetooth device is connected to FlooCast you're good to go. Note that your Bluetooth devices will never show up in your computer's Bluetooth devices because it is the Floo device handling the connection.LE Audio and Auracast are still very new technologies, the spec has barely been worked out, and even the hearing aid manufacturers have released quirky software. Not to worry. Support for this device has been superb, with prompt responses to questions, and even beta versions sent to test for certain issues.If you want to connect LE Audio devices to a computer that doesn't support them, this is THE product... I've not seen anything on Amazon that comes close.

updateReturning it. If I connect Philips 9050 hearing aid with this device on PC I can't answer phone from hearing aid connected to my Pixel phone. This might be a limitation of the hearing aids. In any case, it makes the dongle useless to me. If I reconnect to phone, then the dongle connection does not work.It works with my Philips 9050 hearing aid. But is difficult to set up on Win 11 PC.Make sure you download their app, upgrade firmware. Also down load manual.It took multiple attempts to connect before it started streaming audio. Rebooted several times. I think the hearing aids look like they are still connected to my Pixel phone. I have to check this and make sure I can still receive phone calls through the hearing aids.Another issue is that it has an unusual usb connection. It can plug in 2 different ways. Only one works. The manual does not explain this confusion.

This will let you add Bluetooth connections to your existing devices, like your TV.Unfortunately, all my existing devices are incompatible with this level of Bluetooth, so I had to return it.