I am using RM and a variable (which I display on a dashboard), whenever the Zen15 sees energy usage on the plug I increment the cycles variable. Here's the variable I setup in RM.
And here's the 2 rules:
This one increments the cycle count every time the plug reports a power level change.
and this one resets the cycle count every night at midnight.
Then I just display the cycle count on a dashboard
The top icon is the Attribute Variable
The bottom icon is the lastUpdated attribute
I dont have any notification, however you could always have a RM rule that would alert if the cycles variable exceeds a certain number daily. I havent needed to do that yet...
Let me know if you have any questions.