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I did the same but the tower is in my basement. I ran an HDMI and USB cable up thru the wall and into a keystone panel behind my TV. Other than occasionally having to manually flip the tower back on after a power outage it worked pretty flawlessly. Totally silent and no tower to hide in my living room.

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"wake on USB" could save you from manually switching the PC back on.

I haven't found such functionality in my MoBo, but a tinkerer could also use one more cord to move the power button where the rest of the controls are.

An Alexa "skill" or whatever integration would be cool: "Alexa, turn on the computer!"

Wake on lan then?

There should be a “power state” setting in BIOS to turn back on after a power outage.

There are also power button remotes that could work, depending on distance: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQUANS8/

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