Restore a saved Monoprice zone snapshot

Use this action to return one or more zones on your Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier to a state you saved earlier with the Snapshot action. It is most useful after playing a doorbell or notification sound, so each zone goes back to whatever it was doing before.

Restoring brings back the power status, mute status, volume level, and selected source for each targeted zone.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To restore a snapshot from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. Select what you want to control. Under By target (see Targets), select the zones you want to restore.
6. From the actions shown for that target, select Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier: Restore.
7. Select Save.

Options in the UI

This action has no additional options beyond the target.

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required.

In YAML, refer to this action as monoprice.restore. A basic example looks like this:

action: monoprice.restore
target:
  entity_id: media_player.living_room

This restores media_player.living_room to its saved state.

Options in YAML

This action has no additional YAML options beyond the target.

Targets of the action

This action requires a target. The target is the object of the action. You can point the action at a single entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more], a device, an area, a floor, or a label, and Home Assistant will run the action on every matching media_player entity behind that target.

• Entity: one specific media_player entity, such as media_player.living_room.
• Device: every media_player entity that belongs to a device.
• Area: every media_player entity in a room or area.
• Floor: every media_player entity on a floor.
• Label: every media_player entity that shares a label.

You can also select different target types in one action. For example, you can add a specific entity and an area as targets in the same action to run the action on both of them at once.

• This action only works on zones that have a snapshot saved with the Snapshot action.
• Restoring brings back the power status, mute status, volume level, and source for each targeted zone.
• Editing the sources from the integration options removes any snapshot you saved, so there is nothing left to restore.

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Developer tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more] without writing a line of YAML.

More examples

Real scenarios where this action shows up in automations and scripts. Copy any example and adapt it to your setup.

Automation: play a doorbell sound and resume playback

Save the state of a zone, play a notification sound, and then restore the zone afterward.

• Trigger: State: Doorbell button is pressed
• Action: Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier: Snapshot
  • Target: Living room
• Action: Play the doorbell sound
• Action: Monoprice 6-Zone Amplifier: Restore
  • Target: Living room

alias: "Doorbell announcement on the living room speakers"
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.doorbell
    to: "on"
actions:
  - action: monoprice.snapshot
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.living_room
  - action: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.living_room
    data:
      media_content_id: "/local/doorbell.mp3"
      media_content_type: music
  - delay: "00:00:10"
  - action: monoprice.restore
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.living_room

Still stuck?

The Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

These actions work well alongside this one:

• Snapshot the current state of a Monoprice zone: Saves the current state of one or more Monoprice amplifier zones so you can restore it later.