How did you choose nodes for your Zeus embedded node?

• use only big good LSPs, with good liquidity pool and good policies. Policies are very important in this case.
• do not use Tor only pleb nodes, that could fail a lot, shut down, not having good routes, force close the channels on you etc
• there's no need to open more 3-4 channels in such a mobile node. Few good sized channels will offer you enough paths for your payments and also the use of MPP (multi-part payment) that Zeus is fully support it.
• I will not open channels bigger than 5-10M sats. Seize your channels according to your personal use in payments. Remember that using MPP will not drain quickly a channel.
• once you see channels almost dried, refill, using an external swap, from onchain to LN Zeus. try not to close your existing channels. Remember: through a LN channel you can move infinite sats, over and over, without leaving any trace onchain.
• try to open channels with nodes you know are using LND backend, for more compatibility. I am not saying that others do not work. But to avoid issues and debug better, I suggest to choose wisely.
• You can use your home node if you want, as Neutrino provider. Sometimes the public neutrino servers could have high latency and your mobile node will not sync well. This is the most common mistake noobs are ignoring. They use Zeus in quite remote locations with bad ping, far away from neutrino servers. So using a closest one will help a lot.
• Try to use "persistent mode" if you are using it a lot. That will make your mobile node a 24/7 node. Once is synced, it will consume quite few data.
• every week or so, check the app data used. Then if you see that is mroe than 1GB occupied, go to embedded node settings - advanced and select compact database. Also if you have issues syncing, there's the option to delete LND files and resync. That will help a lot for Zeus performance and battery use.