Hello @jmckenzie, great to hear your interest in the heatpump monitor and that your also studying at CAT.
The new emoncms groups module (New Emoncms Groups/Administration module) is being developed partly for this exact application, the present version at an early stage. Alarms and notifications is on the todo list for v3.
Given how sensitive the accuracy of the COP reading is to errors in electrical power measurement and heat measurement, we have been installing the heatpump monitor alongside Elster A100C class 1 single phase power meters which have an IrDa output port that the heatpump monitor can read the meter reading from. We have also been using the more expensive Kamstrup 402 heat meters, the role of the heatpump monitor is more as a data reader and interface to WIFI, although you can use CT based power monitoring in parallel and VFS flow metering if you’re not after class 1/2 accuracy.
There is a note on this in the electricity monitoring section of the heatpump monitor documentation here: https://github.com/openenergymonitor/HeatpumpMonitor/blob/master/installation.md
Im away at the moment in Scotland but it would be great to meet when your next at CAT and to learn more about your research with the heat store as well.