Displaying a defined variable on Lovelace

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Hi folks
I have an automation which defines several variables every hour, pulling data from Google Sheets. I’d like to display that text on Lovelace somehow. What would you do?
Thanks in advance
Roger

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Options:

  1. Stuff the value in the appropriate typed input_* helper for your data then display that.

  2. If it’s text over 255 char. Then create a trigger text template sensor and store it there

I think trigger based template sensors are listed under template in the cookbook The Home Assistant Cookbook - Index

Either way then youll either use the appropriate card for the helper entity you create or something like the markdown card if you use a trigger based sensor

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Thanks! Option 1 for me.
This isn’t doing anything, not sure why. The helper id is correct…

action: text.set_value
metadata: {}
data:
  value: hellooooo
target:
  entity_id: input_text.woodmans_hut_today
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Inout_text. Set value… two different calls. (yes stupid I know) :sunglasses:

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