Feature suggestion: Awake machine by a timer

I want this feature:

Allow a machine to execute an API request that will asks to awake it at a certain moment of time (time specified in Cron format or as system time). It could probably be useful also run it outside of the machine. If run from a machine, should not request an auth key, I suppose.

Ask a clever AI about setting up your “machine’s” network adapter for:

Asking an AI is the only way this can be relevant to an AI developer’s forum.

These days, you’ll likely need an onboard NIC, as support for a wake cable from a network card to a motherboard is waning. Otherwise, a managed PC and enterprise software (Intel AMT, Dell, ..) Of course, a server to be waking things up, that can also receive API requests and schedule such wake packets.

If you want a Linux machine to do this to itself, self-contained:

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