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title: Text
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description: Instructions on how to set up text entities within Home Assistant.
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ha_category:
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- Text
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ha_release: '2022.12'
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ha_domain: text
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ha_quality_scale: internal
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ha_codeowners:
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- '@home-assistant/core'
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ha_integration_type: entity
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---
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The Text integration is built for the controlling and monitoring of text values on devices.
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{% include integrations/building_block_integration.md %}
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If you are looking for a way to create a text entity, please take a look at the [Text helper](/integrations/input_text).
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## Actions
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### Text actions
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Available actions: `text.set_value`
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### Action `text.set_value`
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Set the textual value of the text entity.
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| Data attribute | Optional | Description |
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| ---------------------- | -------- | ----------- |
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| `entity_id` | no | String or list of strings that point at `entity_id`'s of texts to control.
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| `value` | no | The new text value to set.
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