Turn on Mac in specific user account

Can you schedule mac to turn on to schedule in energy saver and login as specific user, so that it can then run a scheduled chronosync and then shut down, but not autologin as that user when normally turned on. Want to backup at night from my user account, but don't want it to auto login when kids turn it on

Hi,
No way I'm aware of.

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