Snapcast


The Snapcast integration allows you to control Snapcast from Home Assistant.

Configuration

To add the Snapcast integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Services

The snapcast integration provides a few services registered under the media_player integration.

Service snapcast.snapshot

Take a snapshot of what is currently playing on one or more speakers. This service, and the following one, are useful if you want to play a doorbell or notification sound and resume playback afterwards.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id no The speakers to snapshot.

Service snapcast.restore

Restore a previously taken snapshot of one or more speakers.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id no String or list of entity_ids that should have their snapshot restored.

Service snapcast.join

Group players together under a single group.

Service data attribute Optional Description
master no Entity ID of the player to synchronize to.
entity_id yes String or list of entity_ids to join to the master.

Service snapcast.unjoin

Remove one or more speakers from their group of speakers.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id no String or list of entity_ids to separate from their coordinator speaker.

Service snapcast.set_latency

Set the latency of a speaker.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes String or list of entity_ids for which latency will be adjusted.
latency no Latency in ms.