Snapshot and restore multiple states

[pnbruckner (Phil)]

FWIW, see what I did here:

Save and restore state of lights

I was looking for the same functionality and came up with a way to do it via Python Scripts (i.e., https://www.home-assistant.io/components/python_script/.) I’m still pretty new to HA, so this may or may not be an optimal or “proper” way, but it does seem to work. Any comments/feedback are welcome. In my case I wanted to save the current state of all switches/lights, turn them all on for a period of time, then restore them all to their previous state. Here are the two scripts I came up with: T…