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Hi everyone. I'm building a demo that involves a lightbulb and a Z-Wave light dimmer. I want to have the Z-Wave light dimmer transmit usage data from the lightbulb to RaZberry. So, when the dimmer is increased/decreased, the Raspberry Pi shows a graph of the power usage increasing/decreasing, respectively.

Are there Z-Wave light dimmers out there capable of doing this? If not, will I be able to measure the current somehow and transmit that data manually over Z-Wave? I'm completely new to Z-Wave and RaZberry so please consider that.

This device (it is a dimmer in fact and can be turned into a normal dimmer via config params) http://store.zwaveeurope.com/product_in ... s_id=13153 can report Watts consummed by the buld at current dimming rate. Note that it does not really measure, but bases on dimming % and configureed value of the bulb consumption at 100%.