File sensor

Feature Requests
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Hello guys

I am trying to create a custom file sensor which sends me the complete data from a file and not just the last line of that file.
The idea is to setup a local file which stores all my tasks and through TTS, every morning once I switch off my alarm, it reads me out my tasks for the day.
I am able to save data to local file using command line sensor but the only problem I am facing is in sensing the complete data to TTS.
My current logic is to send the complete content data to a custom file sensor, and make tts read it when I run the automation.

Here is the link for reference of the file.py sensor: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/sensor/file.py

When returning the data, it is returning the last ‘line’ but I want to return the ‘file_data’ itself.
I tried applying this ‘data = data + line’ , but it is not working. Shows ‘unknown’ in the sensor value. (it offcourse shouldn’t work because ‘data’ is not defined earlier in the ‘for’ loop)

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It might be easier to use mqtt sensor to hold the data instead of a file since HA can publish and read mqtt easily.

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That’s a way to go about it. But as of now all of my other automations have been built around the idea where data comes in through a file as a sensor.
I’m sure there must be a way to do it through a custom file sensor as well.
If nothing works, I will have to shift to MQTT.