vlgligor

Many thanks for the detailed answer @bmartino1! Out of the 4 suggested ways to do the scheduled power-on & power-off, probably the ones I can use in my case are: 1. BIOS settings is the last option I would use (for the reasons mentioned in the 1st post), if nothing else is going to work . Question (same in 1st post): can the Unraid schedule the BIOS via the ACPI / RTC Power On by OS? 2. & 3. (WoL / external devices) both requires additional devices to start the server. If I can have this functionality implemented in the server, why should I bother? 4. Dynamix plugin for the shutdown. I found suggested solutions (somehow related to point 1.), using rtcwake command as a scheduled user script, if the BIOS will support it (the server runs on an AsRock C246 WSI MB with latest BIOS from 2023). I will have to test this functionality. It would have been nice to have a working solution already implemented in the OS (similar to synology).

Hello, My first post here, and my first question(s), as I am building a new custom server and trying to use it with Unraid. The new server should work in a remote place and be able to automatically start up (scheduled), synchronize with shares on my local NAS and shutdown. Sleep state is not an option, as there might be power outages at the remote location, so it need to startup from a complete power off state. I would like to avoid scheduling it in BIOS, as the server will operate headless. WOL is also not an option. I am aware that advanced scheduled shutdown can be done via Dynamix plugin, so I am mostly interested in the startup capability from complete shutdown. At the moment I am in the Synology ecosystem, and the two HP Microservers (gen8 & gen10+) running DSM (Xpenology) are both capable of scheduled shutdown and start up, even after power cycle, function integrated in the DSM. And the question: can Unraid have the same power schedule for start up? E.g. can the Unraid schedule the BIOS via the ACPI / RTC Power On by OS? Thank you in advance!