wolweb VS circadian

Rather than start tweaking existing containers (esp as they may get reloaded / messed up by a DSM update) I would look at a dedicated WOL container that you can afford to have impacted something like https://github.com/sameerdhoot/wolweb

A few days this was mentioned, I haven't used it yet, but seems easy enough.

If you can't get it working it's easy enough to set up some sort of cheapo sbc computer that can stay on all the time that you can ssh into to issue the wol command or run something like this: https://github.com/sameerdhoot/wolweb

yes, homeservers do not need to run at all times. I solve this by being able to ssh into the router from WAN via wireguard and sending out wake-on-LAN magic packets.

There are also webuis that can do this for you https://github.com/sameerdhoot/wolweb

Alternative, better ways, to accomplish this would be with another low-power device via triggering a command via port knocking, sshing and running a wake-up command, or setting up a web gui for sending wol packets

Personally I use https://github.com/sameerdhoot/wolweb for work, "easy enough" to use for less technical users.

Probably easier, if you have a small computer at home, put something like this on it https://github.com/sameerdhoot/wolweb with zerotier.

I wrote something remarkably similar a few years ago, for similar reasons. I was pretty baffled that nothing similar already existed. Auto-wake with the RTC timer was what I really wanted.

Link, in case you care: https://github.com/mrmekon/circadian

I have a "NAS", which is really an enormous desktop tower crammed full of hard drives. It auto-wakes once per day, pulls backups from my various servers all over the place, then returns to sleep.