Sending a string to ha from node red

Hello everyone
I would like to send a string to ha from node red and all i can find is the sensor node which seems that i can only send number values

but in my case i want to set up a “engine state” entity and the values would be like
“starting”
“cranking”
“shutdown”
“pre heating”
etc…

How would i do this?

Never mind I got it. i used the sensor node and left everything black but the name. then i can send string, number etc.

sorry to bother…