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Have you used these tools? Your main option is NUT, and it's not a great product. It crashes, it can't tolerate one of the UPSes being down, etc.

For my homelab, I ended up connecting my UPS via a USB cable to a Synology NAS and adding automation to shut down the rest of the servers to it.

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I hadn’t realized this about NUT. I just started using it as part of TrueNAS’ built-in UPS monitoring support and haven’t had any issues thus far, but this gives me pause.

I buy that there is room for an alternative tool regardless of how crashy NUT is, but the technology choices for this are a huge turn-off IMO.

Then use some rust file where you trust that the compiled file matches the source.

I'd just stick the server into a docker container, and firewall it from the public Internet. NodeJS is not something that I'd use for these kinds of tools, but it's not inherently bad.

> Synology NAS

That's still NUT, just an older version with limited configurability through the DSM UI.

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