Awesome writeup, I got a lot of great ideas from it to improve my setup.

Question for you on the miniPC. I currently have been running HAOS on an old laptop for 3 years now and it works great. Being a laptop I get the added advantage of a built in battery backup! I am moving into anew house and want to rack mount everything, so I am looking at upgrading to a Intel NUC7i which I found nice rack mounts for https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TDRRCJB/?coliid=IPFVX97F8DLK2&colid=2MI3LJ0GFTCL6&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it .

While I will be adding a rack mount UPS, I dont think HA has a UPS interface for graceful shutdown. How does HAOS like the having the rug pulled out from under it?