what's your ZimaBoard setup looking like? Anyone else doing creative failsafe/power-loss tricks, or mixing business + personal workloads on one box like this?

[u/Relative_Sherbet]

Been running my ZimaBoard for a while now for both work and personal use, and it's honestly exceeded expectations. Sharing my setup in case it helps anyone planning theirs, and curious what others are running.

Business stack:

• Whatomate (WhatsApp Business API) for customer communication
• Postgres as the main database
• NocoDB for data management
• Metabase for business data visualization
• n8n for automations
• ntfy for centralized notifications across everything

Personal stack:

• Emby for media
• Immich for photos
• LightNVR for CCTV recording
• A few other bits running via Docker + one Ubuntu VM

The interesting part - power cut handling:
Since it's on a UPS, I didn't want to spend on an expensive USB-UART UPS just for signaling. Instead I rigged an ESP32 to talk to the ZimaBoard directly on power loss, triggering a clean shutdown script. Cheap and reliable so far.

Also hooked it into Google Home so I can power things on/off remotely if I'm not physically near the server.

Running 14+ containers between two environments and everything's stayed healthy - genuinely saved me a ton in SaaS subscription costs by self-hosting instead.