MQTT Discovery for Text Box component

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Hi,

I’m using MQTT to register my project (and its entities) with HA as per the documentation. So things like Number sliders, toggles, etc. are working fine.

But I can’t find a way of adding an text box control, to let the user send an arbitrary string. I’ve seen text inputs before (I think on media players with text-to-speech support), but can’t see a way of implementing one myself.

Can anyone advise?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi again,

Is there really no way to do this? For the meantime, I’ve had to abuse an alarm panel code entry box just to send a name to my device. If works but is extremely goofy. Surely there is a better way?

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For future reference, this has now been added to HA >=2022.12: MQTT Text - Home Assistant