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[twmayer]

As a disabled verteran with hearing loss, it is often difficult to enjoy using my roku without blowing my family out of the room.

I have purchased a set of bone conduction headphones to assist in hearing my roku.

I am having dificulties finding a way to connect it to my roku HD. I have purchased a blue tooth transmitter and Im not having much luck.

Is there any roku devices with built in bluetooth broadcast capabilities (out side the TVs)

Are there plans to start adding bluetooth to the roku devices?

I have been using ROKU since it first came out and I really dont want to look for alternative technolgies

Is this the place to get a discussion started?

[JWS9518]

@twmayer 

Here is the support page that talks about what Roku devices support bluetooth an how to connect them.

How to use Bluetooth headphones for Headphone Mode on your Roku streaming device | Official Roku Sup...

And thanks for your service.

[Strega2]

It looks like anything labeled Roku HD is quite old and unsupported, but they generally (depending on model) have the advantage of having lots of older-style ports. I'm assuming you're connecting one of those ports (analog audio? optical?) to your blue tooth transmitter so I would expect that to "just work". That is to say, I wouldn't expect the blue tooth gadget to know or care exactly what sort of device is feeding it. But if it isn't working on the Roku for some reason, then you can probably connect the same device to your TV. Which also means that your TV will drive the headphones regardless of the source.

Hmm. When I wrote the above, I assumed the Roku drives all output ports all the time. In my experience, most devices do. In any case, trying to connect it to the TV provides another option to get something working.

[JWS9518]

@Strega2 Some of those transmitters can be finicky and don't always work as promised, depending on the brand.  Plus, there are a lot of junk transmitters on the market.

[Strega2]

Yes but connecting it to a different device might help pin-down which thing is being finicky. (Of course, that still leaves the blue tooth connection between the headphones and the box as another suspect. Sometimes I wonder if a headphone wire is really all that bad.)

[JWS9518]

Then there is also the variable of what version of Bluetooth each device is using, depending on when each device was released.  Some Bluetooth versions play nicer than others,😬🙃  The versions are supposed to be backwards compatible, but that doesn't always translate to working the way they should.