I think someone should void their warranty, open the thing up, and start taking pictures. Letās see if we can find a debugging port on the darn thing and get a firmware dump. Then we can reverse engineer the heck out of it, and maybe make the darn thing useful.
Lumen - let the conversation begin š
atomicspacebunny
(Bunny)
#162
Correction: ā¦Lipogenesis (lipid droplet storage) rather than lipolysis (extraction of lipid droplet storage)ā¦
Typing too fastā¦lol
amwassil
(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.)
#163
For what itās worth, I fired off this today:
Case summary
Subject: RER
Description:
I eat keto. I purchased Lumen in the hope that it would assist me to determine relative percentages of fat/ketone and glucose burn during various daily activities and in response to eating various foods. I find the scale of 5 arbitrary categories useless for me. I encourage you to make raw RER numbers accessible to the user. Is there any possibility of youāre doing this? Thank you.
Sincerely, Michael Wassil
Your case was created.
Weāll get back to you soon.
amwassil
(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.)
#165
No - at least about RER. I did receive a response a couple days later asking me to complete a questionaire about my āsupport experienceā. I did. 
I have not given up, though. Iām going to keep pestering them about this.
amwassil
(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.)
#166
Update.
| Date: | Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:51:14 AM PST |
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| From: | |
| āSteven from Lumenā steven.joseph@lumen-2bd399efd687.intercom-mail.com | Add to Address Book Block Sender Allow Sender |
| To: | amwassil@usa.net |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Lumen + Garmin Integration Is Here! |
Hi Michael,
Thanks for reaching out and for the great suggestion!
Currently Lumen measures the CO2 concentration in order to determine what your body is using for fuel.
In the future, we may add further sensors to a new version of Lumen where we can also determine O2 levels and be able to calculate and display RER values for customers
If you have any further questions or suggestions, please let me know and iāll be happy to help.
Best regards,
Steve
| Date: | Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:40:19 AM PST |
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| From: | |
| āMICHAEL WASSILā amwassil@usa.net | Add to Address Book Block Sender Allow Sender |
| To: | Steven from Lumen steven.joseph@lumen-2bd399efd687.intercom-mail.com |
| Subject: | Lumen + RER |
Thank you for the prompt response, Steve!
There are lots of folks in the KETO community who would be very interested in
a device that measures RER. We currently have nothing that gives us direct
useful data re āfat adaptationā. We are left guessing based on ketone and
glucose measures, and dietary choices. It would be soooo useful to have a
direct measure that doesnāt require a trip to a sports nutrition center.
Thanks.