Text Input to update IP Address in modbus.yaml

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Hi All
I am trying to get something to work.
I would like to have a text input helper where i can enter IP and update the host: IP ADDRESS of modbus.yaml

host:  "{{ states('input_text.hub_ip') }}"

returns as host: 192.168.0.xxx under developer options, but in the yaml it wont connect to the Victron GX device, but if I add in the IP Address all is well, so the yaml does not return the IP Address.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi and welcome to the forum.

You can’t template integration configuration options.

You can only template items that appear under the following:

data:
service:
target:

And a few other special exceptions for integration configuration like value_template:, payload_template: etc…

If the documentation does not explicitly state that a template can be used for a configuration option, then it can’t.

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Are you trying to change the IP address because of DHCP? I think it would be better to use a static DHCP lease (DHCP reservation) in that case.

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Thanks Tom

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No so I do some power monitoring and analysis for a few clients so I just take my unit with my Shelly relays and give a report on loads and then I do load balancing, so i just wanted to configure the IP via the lovelace.