Whether LE audio support multiple phonse and multiple headphones connected at the same time ?

LE audio can support multiple stream, but I can't find any description about following application, please advise....thanks

phone1 use unicast to play audio on headphone1 and at the same time phone2 play audio on headphone2.

multiple separate connections to do multiple streaming

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  • Hi,

    We just get the head unit requirement, it should support at most 5 or 6 device connections at the same time. the device can be phone or earphone, and the head unit is the gateway between these devices. So I think that the head unit can equipped a LE audio component which used to connect with 6 devices just like the picture below. The audio stream shall be routed into external SoC to do audio process and routed to the pre-defined earphone. If this architecture can work, then we can promote the solution to our customer.

    Thanks

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  • Hi,

    We just get the head unit requirement, it should support at most 5 or 6 device connections at the same time. the device can be phone or earphone, and the head unit is the gateway between these devices. So I think that the head unit can equipped a LE audio component which used to connect with 6 devices just like the picture below. The audio stream shall be routed into external SoC to do audio process and routed to the pre-defined earphone. If this architecture can work, then we can promote the solution to our customer.

    Thanks

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  • Hi,

    Can you please answer the following questions:
    1. Will the phones stream at the same time?
    2. What audio quality are you looking for (16 bit, 48 KHz or lower)?
    3. Will each phone stream to their own headset (which seems to be the case looking at the colors)?
    4. Can you use broadcast (BIS) from the head unit to the headsets, or does it need to be unicast (CIS)?

    Best regards,
    Dejan


  • Hi Dejan,

    1. yes, the stream from different can be at the same time

    2. no clear audio quality requirements from customer, do you have any suggention for the configuration that 3 different streams from phone to their own earphone. So 6 streams in, out at the same time.

    3. yes, each phone stream the audio to the same color earphone

    4. I think it should be unicast, because the 3 earphone receiving different stream.

    Thanks

    Jack

  • Hi Jack,

    Looking at your topology, it is still not clear to me why there is a need for having all phones going to the same central device. What is the exact point of having the central device if all 3 phones are transmitting only to their corresponding separate headphones?  In addition, why would a person in the car want to route his/her audio through a central unit? Can you please elaborate on this?
    Please let me know if there is any further information and details that you share that you do not want to be publicly visible, and I can make this ticket private. 

    Best regards,
    Dejan

  • Hi Dejan,

    Actually, we just got the requirements that the head unit (Central) can have connections with 5 or 6 devices. The detailed function should be in the stream management software by customer, We just want to clear if a LE audio can work as the topology. Maybe one phone can stream its audio to head unit, and then share to another earphones, maybe each earphone can hear the audio from head unit and swtich to phone if the call is coming etc. head unit acts as a audio gateway to manage connected device and manage the audio routing, audio input / output process etc.

    So please provide a suggestion that if the topology can work, then we can propose to our customer.

    Maybe a LE Audio chip can not support the bandwidth to stream so many audios at the same time, then we can let customer knows it and modify our topology. Maybe we can use 2 LE audio chip in head unit to fullfill it. Should get the advise from you.

    Thanks

    Jack

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