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I like your funny words magic man. Now more seriously, how could I create a VPN to my home network without having an additional computer to spare? Could I use a router for that? (Currently using the crappy ISP provided one just as a modem and using Google stuff to handle WIFi. To get wired to my server I use one of those Powerline things that is connected to the ISP stuff)
I run a wireguard service on my Unifi Edgerouter and it works pretty well for that situations. I can also (in theory) send WOL packets from home assistant but i've never tried.
Some routers can act as a VPN, but I don’t think an ISP provided one can.
I would suggest you get a raspberry pi zero W or equivalent(like orange pi zero) and setup a WireGuard server on that. It’s only like $15.
That way you can vpn to your network and access devices / services without opening any additional ports.
Yes, your router can likely act as a VPN server, but I would definitely have a hardware firewall if you're going to be exposing ports to the public internet.
Also, a wifi adapter for the server is going to be better than a powerline adapter. What I did for my home lab was bought some cheap Netgear routers and turned them to bridge mode and hooked all 4 ports from the server to the router.