home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/snapcast.markdown

title	description	ha_category	ha_release	ha_iot_class	ha_domain	ha_config_flow	ha_platforms	ha_integration_type	ha_codeowners
Snapcast	Instructions on how to integrate Snapcast into Home Assistant.	Media Player	0.13	Local Polling	snapcast	true	media_player	integration	@luar123

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

{% include integrations/config_flow.md %}

Services

The snapcast components provides a few services registered under the media_player component.

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.