Getting Monoprice 6 Zone Amp to work with Google Assistant

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I’m using the Monoprice 6 Zone Amp integration which appears to be working as intended in the Web UI of Home Assistant. I also have the Google Assistant Integration working and I can turn Monoprice Zones on and off. The issue I am experiencing is that the Google Assistant only sees the zones as having an on/off state and no volume controls or other functionality that the Monoprice Integration exposes. I have no experience with Home Assistant or YAML. Advice or solutions would be greatly appreciated.

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I’ve got the Integration they used working however I would like to get it working with the Google Assistant Integration.

Can I write a script to fire off services when the Google Assistant Integration is called by Google?

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Perhaps you will need to use the Universal Media Player integration to create individual media players using the attributes from the Monoprice entity.

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So the Monoprice Integration creates 18 entities with the first 6 enabled (the physical hardware can be chained to provide up to 18 zones). Without the following code, I can ask Google to turn zone 11 on or off. With the below code, I get a Test Universal device in my Google Home app that I can turn on or off by saying

Hey Google. Turn on Test Universal

but I can’t say

Hey Google. Turn Test Universal Volume Up.

Saying that turns the Google Assistants volume up.

media_player:
  platform: universal
  name: Test Universal
  device_class: speaker
  children:
    - media_player.zone_11
  commands:
    turn_on:
      service: media_player.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: media_player.zone_11
    turn_off:
      service: media_player.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: media_player.zone_11
    volume_up:
      service: media_player.volume_up
      target:
        entity_id: media_player.zone_11

Do I need to map more attributes or is this a limitation of Home Assistant’s integration with the Google Assistant? Also, the Monoprice amp has analogue inputs on the back, it doesn’t have any playback capability.

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did you ever get this working? very interested in getting a monoprice amp.