Text entity

A text entity is an entity that allows the user to input a text value to an integration. Derive entity platforms from homeassistant.components.text.TextEntity

Properties

tip

Properties should always only return information from memory and not do I/O (like network requests). Implement update() or async_update() to fetch data or build a mechanism to push state updates to the entity class instance.

Name	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	text	Defines how the text should be displayed in the UI. Can be text or password.
native_max	int	100	The maximum number of characters in the text value (inclusive).
native_min	int	0	The minimum number of characters in the text value (inclusive).
pattern	str	None	A regex pattern that the text value must match to be valid.
native_value	str	Required	The value of the text.

Other properties that are common to all entities such as icon, name etc are also applicable.

Methods

Set value

class MyTextEntity(TextEntity):
    # Implement one of these methods.

    def set_value(self, value: str) -> None:
        """Set the text value."""

    async def async_set_value(self, value: str) -> None:
        """Set the text value."""