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Text Sensor Component
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.. seo::
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:description: Instructions for setting up text sensors that represent their state as a string of text.
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:image: folder-open.png
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Text sensors are a lot like normal :doc:`sensors </components/sensor/index>`.
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But where the "normal" sensors only represent sensors that output **numbers**, this
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component can represent any *text*.
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.. _config-text_sensor:
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Base Text Sensor Configuration
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------------------------------
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.. code-block:: yaml
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# Example sensor configuration
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name: Livingroom Temperature
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# Optional variables:
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icon: "mdi:water-percent"
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Configuration variables:
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- **name** (**Required**, string): The name for the sensor.
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- **icon** (*Optional*, icon): Manually set the icon to use for the sensor in the frontend.
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- **internal** (*Optional*, boolean): Mark this component as internal. Internal components will
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not be exposed to the frontend (like Home Assistant). Only specifying an ``id`` without
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a ``name`` will implicitly set this to true.
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- If MQTT enabled, All other options from :ref:`MQTT Component <config-mqtt-component>`.
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Automations:
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- **on_value** (*Optional*, :ref:`Automation <automation>`): An automation to perform
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when a new value is published. See :ref:`text_sensor-on_value`.
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Text Sensor Automation
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----------------------
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You can access the most recent state of the sensor in :ref:`lambdas <config-lambda>` using
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``id(sensor_id).state``.
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.. _text_sensor-on_value:
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``on_value``
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************
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This automation will be triggered when a new value is published.
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In :ref:`Lambdas <config-lambda>` you can get the value from the trigger with ``x``.
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.. code-block:: yaml
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text_sensor:
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- platform: version
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# ...
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on_value:
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then:
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- lambda: |-
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ESP_LOGD("main", "The current version is %s", x.c_str());
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Configuration variables: See :ref:`Automation <automation>`.
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.. _text_sensor-lambda_calls:
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lambda calls
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************
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From :ref:`lambdas <config-lambda>`, you can call several methods on all text sensors to do some
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advanced stuff (see the full API Reference for more info).
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- ``publish_state()``: Manually cause the sensor to push out a value.
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.. code-block:: cpp
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// Within lambda, push a value of "Hello World"
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id(my_sensor).publish_state("Hello World");
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- ``.state``: Retrieve the current value of the sensor as an ``std::string`` object.
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.. code-block:: cpp
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// For example, create a custom log message when a value is received:
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std::string val = id(my_sensor).state;
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ESP_LOGI("main", "Value of my sensor: %s", val.c_str());
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See Also
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--------
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- :apiref:`text_sensor/text_sensor.h`
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- :ghedit:`Edit`
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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:glob:
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