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Rewire the power button so it's an easy to push switch and put it behind a target. Then your remote can be a nerf gun.

Edit - the other thing that came to mind was to look into HDMI cec and see if there's a setup where turning on your tv will turn on the PC automatically.

Edit 2 - if you go with an app, you could use something like tasker and then you can have different triggers like your phone tapping an nfc sticker (then you don't have to unlock and find an app).

I find it unusual you have a device with a keyboard where the keyboard won't wake the computer. You must have some setting disabled for that to happen.

For Windows, maybe this helps. 1. Open Device Manager 2. Find the keyboard under "Keyboards" 3. Right-click and select "Properties" 4. Go to the "Power Management" tab 5. Make sure "Allow this device to wake the computer" is checked

This is probably the cause. It would be highly unusual for any modern motherboard to not support waking from USB HID at all.