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| title | description | ha_category | ha_release | ha_iot_class | ha_domain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MQTT Text | Instructions on how to interact with a device exposing text capability through MQTT from within Home Assistant. |
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2022.12 | Configurable | mqtt |
The mqtt Text platform allows you to integrate devices that show text that can be set remotely. Optionally the text state can be monitored too using MQTT.
Configuration
To enable MQTT text platform in your installation, add the following to your {% term "configuration.yaml" %} file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
mqtt:
- text:
command_topic: command-topic
{% configuration %}
availability:
description: A list of MQTT topics subscribed to receive availability (online/offline) updates. Must not be used together with availability_topic.
required: false
type: list
keys:
payload_available:
description: The payload that represents the available state.
required: false
type: string
default: online
payload_not_available:
description: The payload that represents the unavailable state.
required: false
type: string
default: offline
topic:
description: An MQTT topic subscribed to receive availability (online/offline) updates.
required: true
type: string
value_template:
description: "Defines a template to extract device's availability from the topic. To determine the devices's availability result of this template will be compared to payload_available and payload_not_available."
required: false
type: template
availability_topic:
description: The MQTT topic subscribed to receive availability (online/offline) updates. Must not be used together with availability.
required: false
type: string
availability_mode:
description: When availability is configured, this controls the conditions needed to set the entity to available. Valid entries are all, any, and latest. If set to all, payload_available must be received on all configured availability topics before the entity is marked as online. If set to any, payload_available must be received on at least one configured availability topic before the entity is marked as online. If set to latest, the last payload_available or payload_not_available received on any configured availability topic controls the availability.
required: false
type: string
default: latest
availability_template:
description: "Defines a template to extract device's availability from the availability_topic. To determine the devices's availability result of this template will be compared to payload_available and payload_not_available."
required: false
type: template
command_template:
description: Defines a template to generate the payload to send to command_topic.
required: false
type: template
command_topic:
description: The MQTT topic to publish the text value that is set.
required: true
type: string
device:
description: "Information about the device this of text capability is a part of to tie it into the device registry. Only works when unique_id is set. At least one of identifiers or connections must be present to identify the device."
required: false
type: map
keys:
configuration_url:
description: 'A link to the webpage that can manage the configuration of this device. Can be either an http://, https:// or an internal homeassistant:// URL.'
required: false
type: string
connections:
description: 'A list of connections of the device to the outside world as a list of tuples [connection_type, connection_identifier]. For example the MAC address of a network interface: "connections": [["mac", "02:5b:26:a8:dc:12"]].'
required: false
type: list
hw_version:
description: The hardware version of the device.
required: false
type: string
identifiers:
description: 'A list of IDs that uniquely identify the device. For example a serial number.'
required: false
type: [list, string]
manufacturer:
description: The manufacturer of the device.
required: false
type: string
model:
description: The model of the device.
required: false
type: string
model_id:
description: The model identifier of the device.
required: false
type: string
name:
description: The name of the device.
required: false
type: string
serial_number:
description: "The serial number of the device."
required: false
type: string
suggested_area:
description: 'Suggest an area if the device isn’t in one yet.'
required: false
type: string
sw_version:
description: The firmware version of the device.
required: false
type: string
via_device:
description: 'Identifier of a device that routes messages between this device and Home Assistant. Examples of such devices are hubs, or parent devices of a sub-device. This is used to show device topology in Home Assistant.'
required: false
type: string
enabled_by_default:
description: Flag which defines if the entity should be enabled when first added.
required: false
type: boolean
default: true
encoding:
description: The encoding of the payloads received and published messages. Set to "" to disable decoding of incoming payload.
required: false
type: string
default: "utf-8"
entity_category:
description: The category of the entity.
required: false
type: string
entity_picture:
description: "Picture URL for the entity."
required: false
type: string
json_attributes_template:
description: "Defines a template to extract the JSON dictionary from messages received on the json_attributes_topic."
required: false
type: template
json_attributes_topic:
description: The MQTT topic subscribed to receive a JSON dictionary payload and then set as entity attributes. Implies force_update of the current select state when a message is received on this topic.
required: false
type: string
max:
description: The maximum size of a text being set or received (maximum is 255).
required: false
type: integer
default: 255
min:
description: The minimum size of a text being set or received.
required: false
type: integer
default: 0
mode:
description: "The mode off the text entity. Must be either text or password."
required: false
type: string
default: text
name:
description: The name of the text entity. Can be set to null if only the device name is relevant.
required: false
type: string
default: "MQTT Text"
object_id:
description: Used instead of name for automatic generation of entity_id
required: false
type: string
pattern:
description: A valid regular expression the text being set or received must match with.
required: false
type: string
platform:
description: Must be text. Only allowed and required in MQTT auto discovery device messages.
required: true
type: string
qos:
description: The maximum QoS level to be used when receiving and publishing messages.
required: false
type: integer
default: 0
retain:
description: If the published message should have the retain flag on or not.
required: false
type: boolean
default: false
state_topic:
description: "The MQTT topic subscribed to receive text state updates. Text state updates should match the pattern (if set) and meet the size constraints min and max. Can be used with value_template to render the incoming payload to a text update."
required: false
type: string
unique_id:
description: An ID that uniquely identifies this Select. If two Selects have the same unique ID Home Assistant will raise an exception. Required when used with device-based discovery.
required: false
type: string
value_template:
description: "Defines a template to extract the text state value from the payload received on state_topic."
required: false
type: template
{% endconfiguration %}
{% important %}
Make sure that your topic matches exactly. some-topic/ and some-topic are different topics.
{% endimportant %}
Examples
This is an example of a manual configured MQTT text item.
{% raw %}
# Example configuration.yaml entry
mqtt:
- text:
name: "Remote LCD screen"
icon: mdi:ab-testing
mode: "text"
command_topic: "txt/cmd"
state_topic: "txt/state"
min: 2
max: 20
{% endraw %}