liGo Bluewave Link To Mobile Hub

I bought the mobile hub for my elderly mother who uses a landline phone adapted for people with disabilities such as partial sight and dementia. When she moved into a care home she could not easily have her own landline, but the liGo hub has enabled her to keep the phone she is able to use. It was very simple to pair the hub to an old mobile phone and then plug mum's adapted handset into the hub. It works brilliantly and mum is delighted. Could it be cheaper? Probably, because it's new to the UK market, but it works extremely well and you you get what you pay for. In my case I compared the price with the cost of having a new landline installed for my mother and the mobile hub was cheaper than any landline deal available in our area. Leaving my mother's particular circumstances aside, at some point I would certainly consider buying another liGo hub for my own use to solve the problem of the poor mobile signal in most of our house.

Ligo Blue Wave The Ligo Blue Wave is almost returned. However, for the one function it performs adequately, it is worth the £20. Incoming calls to the mobilephone cause the cordless house telephones to ring out and the call may be taken on a cordless. That function works and is useful. When a landline call is answered on a cordless, the device causes an echo on outgoing speech. This is confirmed by cutting the power to the device mid call. Unless the call is to be very short, the device is switched off. It is impossible to make an outgoing call on the cordless via the installed mobilephone. The power supply is ill conceived. It is one where a local plug clips on. Unfortunately, it then sticks out horizontally and is vulnerable to impact. It is unsuitable for a traffic location. The enclosed instructions are not in English but an English version is to be found on the internet. If only the working function was claimed, satisfaction would be higher. If the Ligo Blue Wave breaks, it will not be replaced.

Despite ordering this item in 2016, the unit I received was made in 2012! This is a rebadged Xlink BTTN from the USA. It is easy enough to setup as long as you're not using it with a BT branded phone (corded or cordless), in which case the supplied RJ11 cable will not work. You can buy the correct one for around £2 but it should be included. The 5m range on the Bluetooth is very optimistic, I'd say 3m was more realistic or you will experience poor audio quality. It supports Caller ID on a mobile call, but not on a landline call. You can switch the line you make an outgoing call on by pressing (R)ecall on your phone, unfortunately the Bluewave is set to 90ms but we use 100ms in the UK. Therefore it is very hit and miss unless you change the setting for your phone or the Bluewave to match. You can change the Bluewave to 100ms but you will have to connect it to a Windows PC with a USB cable and download the firmware update tool from Xlink. The tool on the Ligo website is out of date and does not work at all, neither does downloading the manual. The Xlink tool will allow you to configure the Bluewave, but not update the firmware because it is no longer supported (Ligo confirmed this to me by phone, and Xlink confirmed this to me by email). The firmware in the Bluewave is very old and out of date, apparently a later update fixes the Caller ID problem, shame you can't download it. Basically the Ligo Bluewave is obsolete so I don't recommend you buy it. You can import the latest Xlink BTTN from some sellers on Amazon.com, fleabay or direct from Xlink in the USA, but they are significantly more than the Ligo Bluewave here, and be aware you will most likely need to source your own 9 volt UK power supply or a USA to UK plug converter. Ligo declined to publish this review on their website, but they can't stop me publishing it here.

This is a good product if your willing to spend a little time setting it up to work with your mobile. To begin with I was working things out by myself as the instruction manual was in German but tried the usual 'hold some buttons down for 3-5 second to pair' trick. My setup consists of a GPO 746 replica with modern digital input and an iPhone X. Make sure to plug the unit into your PC first and update the firmware patches from XLink (as well as any other settings to make it more realistic, i.e. change from American to UK dial tone 350Hz and volume settings etc.). It took a couple of goes of connecting (and even an initial connection to an actual landline for some reason) and then it worked. Overall, would have given 5 stars if the setup was a little easier (English manual would have helped) but the product is great when it works and prompt delivery.

Please be aware it will not work with B&O phones (having checked with Ligo support first that they would). I have a Beocom 6000 / 2500 and BeoTalk 1100.

Bought IiGo Bluewave for my elderly parents because BT could not instal a landline and they cannot use a mobile phone. This piece of equipment connects a standard phone to a mobile via bluetooth. I connected a basic mobile phone with a £6/month unlimited minutes contract SIM. BT would have cost approximately £20/month. It works brilliantly and gives them reduced monthly cost. I fully recommend this product.

Ditched land-line. Placed new mobile sim in old mobile phone. Placed where there is a good signal in house then connected by Bluetooth to Ligo. Connected base set of Gigaset home phones to Ligo unit and phone now available on the three handsets around the home. Managed to get a 4gb sim, unlimited minutes/texts from Three for £8 pcm. Performance is excellent - monthly bill is consistent. Could have just linked it to our current mobile phones but having a dedicated 'home' phone line was convenient. Home Internet also now provided by an unlimited Three sim in my own router. Goodbye BT etc. and exorbitant charges for a useless service.