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Snapshots are a feature of Shion that allow you to save and
recall your favorite environmental configurations at a later time.
Snapshots are useful for shutting down extraneous lights when you
got to bed, setting up the ideal room for watching movies, and
dynamically adapting your environment throughout a workday.
Creating A Snapshot
Just as like its photographic namesake, you take a snapshot by
arranging the devices in your environment in the configuration that
you would like saved, and you "snap" a recording of that can be
recalled later.
The following instructions describe how to take a Shion
snapshot.
Configure the environment how you would like to record it. From the Shion menu item, open the snapshot interface: 
Hit the + button in the lower-left corner to
record the state of all the devices. A new snapshot will be
created:
 If you wish to omit some devices from the snapshot,
select them and click the - button under the device list. Rename the snapshot by clicking the snapshot's name in
the snapshots list:
 To test the snapshot, change the local environment, then
click the Activate button. Shion will send out the
necessary commands to restore the environment to the snapshot's
settings. To quickly activate a snapshot when the snapshot window
is closed, click the name of the snapshot from the
Actions menu in the Shion menu item:
Snapshots are an important building block for other Shion
features. For example, the events system
can activate a snapshot in response to an arbitrary event. For
example, when the sun rises, Shion can invoke a "Turn off outside
lights" snapshot.
AppleScript users can also use snapshots in their own scripts:
tell application "Shion"
activate snapshot named "All On"
end tell
To learn more about these features, please see the
Events and AppleScript
pages.
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