controlling nextcloud instance on unraid via home assistant

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Hi,

i want to be controlling nextcloud instance on unraid via home assistant.
Does anyone here have done that before?

Why?

My nextcloud instance is rarely used. i think iwould save system resources and energie (spinned down drives).
Also i noticed, that my drives are not getting spinned down when nextcloud is active.. which i dont want when no user is accessing the files..

idea?

i think it would be enough for me to have a input toggle in homeassistant to stop and start the nextcloud instance on my unraid server.

thanks for your thoughts!
cheers,
Mario

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Nextcloud gets active when the regular cronjobs run. This interval is usually every 5 min, it was 15 minutes. If you have very little changes and low activity, you can probably change this a bit and especially at night run much less often.

Other thing is when clients are connected, they have some activity running in the background.

I don’t know neither home assistant nor unraid, so I cannot say if they can be controlled automatically. However, Nextcloud is a sync solution for files, calendars, contacts, … and so on between different devices. And for this use case it seems a bit strange to me that you need to start the server each time manually.