developers.home-assistant/docs/core/entity/text.md

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Text entity	Text

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."""