---
title: Text
description: Instructions on how to set up text entities within Home Assistant.
ha_category:
  - Text
ha_release: '2022.12'
ha_domain: text
ha_quality_scale: internal
ha_codeowners:
  - '@home-assistant/core'
ha_integration_type: entity
---

The Text integration is built for the controlling and monitoring of text values on devices.

Text entities cannot be implemented manually, but can be provided by other integrations. If you are looking for a way to create a text entity, please take a look at the [Text helper](/integrations/input_text).

## Services

### text services

Available services: `text.set_value`

### Service `text.set_value`

Set the textual value of the text entity.

| Service data attribute | Optional | Description |
| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
| `entity_id` | no | String or list of strings that point at `entity_id`'s of texts to control.
| `value` | no | The new text value to set.