Teaching Your Router Bedtime: Automated QoS with OPNsense

Daniel wants his router to automatically know that streaming gets priority at 8 PM and backups can run wild at midnight—no manual scheduling, no buffering during movie night. We dig into OPNsense's dummynet shaper, the cron-based automation gap, and the shell scripts that make time-based QoS real. From DHCP reservations to defensive scripting, this is how you turn a static traffic shaper into a butler that knows your family's rhythms. Episode #585205 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/585205