Ha! That was a giant of waste of time!
I created the means to store time information in an input_select, and to retrieve it, only to discover something I should have known all along: an input_select’s options are initialized at startup.
No matter what options you set, on startup they revert to whatever is specified in the input_select’s configuration. Plus, you cannot configure an input_select without specifying options.
It appears the workaround you implemented (using multiple input_text entities) will have to suffice. I don’t intend to change the original code (you’re the first to encounter the 255 character limitation). Should anyone else be in the same position they have your workaround available.
Anyway, the exercise didn’t provide the result I wanted but it did serve to improve by knowledge of python.
Are you referring to what is listed in the first post under BugFix 1, 2020-0607?