Questions about hörbert

Prerequisite for Bluetooth recordings:

You have a hörbert model from October 2021 with a rotary knob for switching on/off. If you still have an hörbert with a toggle switch, you can have it updated by us or upgrade it yourself with our DIY upgrade kit.

Three preparatory steps

1. Activating the Bluetooth and pairing special functions
2. Editing the memory card: Define a playlist on which the Bluetooth recordings are to be saved. Attention: At least one audio file must already be present there.
3. switch the hörbert to Bluetooth speaker mode and pair it with an end device, e.g. mobile phone, tablet or computer.

Activating the Bluetooth and pairing special functions and editing the memory card in browser set mode

If your hörbert does not yet have the Butterfly firmware, we recommend updating the firmware. Here you will find the necessary steps for a firmware update and the firmware file to download. Once the Butterfly firmware has been successfully installed on your hörbert, proceed as follows:

• Switch on hörbert, wait until he plays.
• Inside hörbert, press the small SET button to the right of the hörbert logo on the green circuit board. hörbert emits an ascending signal tone and opens its own WLAN network.
• Go to your Wi-Fi settings on your Bluetooth transmitter, i.e. your smartphone, tablet or computer. hörbert appears there as a new Wi-Fi network.

• Connect to hörbert’s WLAN. The password is: hoerbert

• Now start a web browser on your Bluetooth transmitter, e.g. google chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.

• Enter the following address in the address bar: http://hoerbert.local

• The hörbert browser set mode opens, which looks like the following image in the mobile view. Here you will also find a

  VIDEO about BROWSER SET MODE

• Open the BLUETOOTH item in the menu and enable the Bluetooth and pairing function there. You need an active pairing function if you want to pair your hörbert with a previously unknown device. Once you have paired all the desired Bluetooth devices in your household with hörbert, you can also deactivate this pairing function here later.

• Open the PLAYLISTS menu item and select one of the colourful playlist buttons on which hörbert should save Bluetooth recordings. The recordings always end up piece by piece at the end of the authorised playlist. Only one playlist can be enabled for Bluetooth recordings at a time.

• If you have an accessible hörbert with only three large playlist buttons, go to the GENERAL menu item and then to the ‘Advanced settings’. Tick the ‘Show expert menu’ box. You will now find a new sub-item ‘EXPERT’ in the main menu. Select this. Go to the ‘Recording settings’. Select the desired recording mode here, e.g. start recording by pressing and holding a playlist button.

• End the browser set mode either on the end device using the disconnect button or press the SET button inside the hörbert again.

• Wait until hörbert plays and then switch it off.

Switch hörbert to Bluetooth speaker mode

• Switch hörbert to Bluetooth speaker mode by switching it on using the rotary knob at the top and switching it off again within approx. 0.5 seconds. It is then not switched off, but goes into speaker mode and confirms this with an ascending sequence of beeps.
• hörbert now appears in the list of available Bluetooth devices on your mobile phone, tablet or computer.
• Connect with hörbert. You have 60 seconds to do this after switching on hörbert.
• Start an audio playback on your Bluetooth transmitter. This can be an audio file or a playlist from your streaming service, e.g. Spotify. Or simply a YouTube music video or an audio book.
• The sound is now played back by hörbert.

Starting and stopping a recording with hörbert

• To start a recording, proceed as follows:
• Press the black button on the front of hörbert and the grey button at the same time so that both buttons are pressed together briefly. The recording starts. Or, on an hörbert with only three large playlist buttons, press one playlist button longer, depending on the selected recording mode.
• To stop and save the recording, press the black button again. On an hörbert with only three playlists, you can stop and save the recording by briefly pressing a playlist button again.
• The recording was saved at the end of the playlist previously set in Browser Set Mode and can be accessed from there.

Tip: Start the recording on the hörbert first, then immediately start playback of the audio content on the Bluetooth transmitter to ensure the desired song or audio story is recorded from the very beginning.

How to activate Bluetooth recordings without Firmware Butterfly

If the Butterfly firmware is not yet running on your hörbert, you can still carry out all the necessary steps without using Browser Set Mode. However, without the Butterfly firmware, you will need a computer and the hörbert software to edit the memory card. You can find the latest hörbert software on our website in the “Service” section under “Software Downloads.” Download the software and install it on your computer.

Übrigens: Auf allen hörberts – einschließlich aller barrierefreien hörberts mit nur drei großen Tasten –, die wir seit Mitte November 2024 ausliefern, ist die Butterfly-Firmware bereits installiert.

• Start the hörbert software. Select the correct hörbert model without toggle switch.

• Connect the hörbert memory card to your computer via an SD card slot or via an external SD card reader.
• The hörbert software recognises the card and displays it as a drive. Select the SD card as a drive in the hörbert software.

• Click on ‘Read card’ and wait until the software has read in all the tracks and now displays the number of audio files on the coloured buttons.

• Now click on the coloured button on the screen that you want to share for Bluetooth recordings.

• Select ‘Save Bluetooth recordings here’ at the bottom of the content window.

• Close the window by clicking on the green tick in the top right-hand corner.

• In the hörbert software main menu, go to ‘Extras’ and then to ‘Configure set mode’.

• Select ‘On with pairing’ for Bluetooth and save the setting.

• Eject the card properly using the green button to the right of the ‘Eject card’ display and wait until the hörbert software says that you can now disconnect the card from the computer.

• Insert the SD card back into hörbert.

• Switch hörbert on and immediately off again within 0.5 seconds.

• hörbert is now in Bluetooth speaker mode and waits until you pair it with a transmitter and start audio playback on your transmitter (mobile phone, tablet, computer).
• The sound is now transferred to hörbert
• Start a recording by pressing the black and grey buttons at the same time until the red light at the front of the microphone opening lights up. You can then release the buttons.
• To end the recording, press the black button again.