blissful basin
I have an automation that alerts me which sensors have a low battery, etc. I want to put this text into a markdown card and display it on the dashboard. The issue is that input_text maxes out at 255 characters. Is there anything I can use to go beyond that?
obsidian fox
you can store it in a template sensor attribute
or you can just use a template in the Markdown card directly
blissful basin
you can store it in a template sensor attribute
I'm thinking maybe attribute because my automation uses local variables which won't translate well to a markdown card.
how do you create that though? is that define-able in the UI?
obsidian fox
No, attribute are YAML only, you could create a trigger based template sensor and let it trigger on a manual event, then send the data for the attribute in this event