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How reliable are background services on Android?

Works perfectly fine if you activate "persistent mode" for lnd service. If you use NWC sub-accounts, you have also to activate the NWC for it, so are 2 different "persistent services".

The LND service in background works perfect but keep an eye on your data app, the channels.db file. So I suggest to do a compact database every week if you keep it alive all the time and do payments. Compacting DB have a direct impact in your battery usage.

The NWC service persistent still have an issue: if you do a payment from a client device, the node will crash. I documented the issue here: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/issues/3463 The NWC do not consume too much battery, but still...

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Quite tempted to put LineageOS on a BananaPi or an ODROID and let that live as an always-on node.

The LND service in background works perfect but keep an eye on your data app, the channels.db file.

Though if you simply have a channel or two, this is not needed then?

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