Powershell can schedule it for you! Just script something against the SQL Server Agent to get automated now.

I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server).

Additional SQL Server Agent capabilities -- SQL Server Agents can be used to keep replicas in synch with log shipping. Listener for Always On availability groups -- The listener enables clients to ...