Simple text input field component

I think it would be great to have a component that simply allows you to input text on the frontend that can then be used in automations. Particularly useful for notifications. It would be awesome to use this to set reminders for things that could then be pushed for example “Remember to buy milk” notification when HA knows I’m leaving work.

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100% Agree should be implemented as sensor imho. Right now you can only do this trough the dev tools or the API and a template sensor like

alexa_response:
  value_template: >-
    {{ states("sensor.alexa_response") }}

Agree, it’ll be very usefull

Hi. Can you please explain me how you do this (input text and use it in hass).
thx!

I’m using the HASS API to set a text as a state in a sensor and then use

 value_template: >-
    {{ states("sensor.alexa_response") }}

to access it.

Feel free to shoot me a message if you need further info.

Cheers