Helper input_number - how to hide or remove slider

Configuration
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To show the temperature in the lovelace UI I have made a helper “input_number”. Now when adding this “input_number” to the Lovelace UI, there is automatically a slider available to adjust the value of this “input_number”. I do not want that slider, how can I remove that?

I have tried other helpers, but the input number is the only one where the UI shows the value AND when clicking on the value I also see a nice history graph plot.

Background info:

I read out an ADC voltage (0 to 5 volts) and convert this using Node-Red to a temperature (0…60 deg C) and post it to a helper.

The values should come only from Node-Red. The user shouldn’t be able to change the value using the slider.

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Set this option in your input number configuration:

mode: box

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/input_number/#mode

Oh.

Then you don’t want an input number at all. You want a template sensor.

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I found the option about “mode: box” before. But I do not see any place where I could alter this mode. When I am at the UI → Helpers. There I can only add a new helper, but not change the option of the helper. Where should I adjust the option?

Can anyone tell me what I have to restart after adding a template sensor? I tried restart core, then restart supervisor, then restart host. All no luck to see the template sensor.

I tried adding the template sensor to my /config/configuration.yaml , see the full file below.

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Boiler T Water"
        unit_of_measurement: "°C"
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You have not included a state template. This is not optional, you must provide one.

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I ended up using Node-Red to post the value to Home Assistant because using mqtt auto discovery, there is no need to restart Home Assistant when adding or removing variables / sensors.

Templating requires to restart Home Assistant, at least, for what I have tried, I see the added templates in the configuration.yaml only gets available after a reboot.

It would be great if templating works just like the variable helpers does, as it is easy to maintain and configure.

in case anyone ends up also to use node-red with autodiscovery of sensors / variables to Home assistant, have a look to the code below:

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There’s no need in Home Assistant either.

Configuration / Server Controls / YAML configuration reloading / Template Entities

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