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To-do list

The To-do list integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] provides to-do list entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more], allowing other integrations to integrate to-do lists into Home Assistant. To-do lists are shown on the To-do lists dashboard for tracking items and whether or not they have been completed.

Note

Building block integration

This to-do list is a building block integration that cannot be added to your Home Assistant directly but is used and provided by other integrations.

A building block integration differs from the typical integration that connects to a device or service. Instead, other integrations that do integrate a device or service into Home Assistant use this to-do list building block to provide entities, services, and other functionality that you can use in your automations or dashboards.

If one of your integrations features this building block, this page documents the functionality the to-do list building block offers.

For example, Local to-do is a fully local integration to create to-do lists and tasks within your Home Assistant instance, Shopping list specifically for shopping that can be added to with Assist, or other integrations work with online services providing to-do list data.

Viewing and managing to-do lists

Each to-do list is represented as its own entity in Home Assistant and can be viewed and managed on a to-do list dashboard. You can find the to-do list dashboard in the main sidebar of your Home Assistant instance.

The state of a to-do list entity

The state of a to-do list entity is a number, which represents the number of incomplete items in the list.

Screenshot showing the state of a to-do list entity in the developer tools Screenshot showing the state of a to-do list entity in the developer tools.

In addition, the entity can have the following states:

  • Unavailable: The entity is currently unavailable.
  • Unknown: The state is not yet known.

Blueprint to add an item to a dedicated list

This blueprint allows you to create a script to add an item to a pre-configured to-do list.

Actions

Some to-do list integrations allow Home Assistant to manage the to-do items in the list. The actions provided by some to-do list entities are described below or you can read more about actions.

Action todo.get_items

Get to-do items from a to-do list. A to-do list target is selected with a target selector. The data payload supports the following fields:

Data attribute Optional Description Example
status yes Only return to-do items with this status. needs_action, completed

This is a full example that returns all to-do items that have not been completed:

action: todo.get_items
target:
  entity_id: todo.vacation_preparation
data:
  status:
    - needs_action

This is an example response to the get items action:

todo.vacation_preparation:
  items:
    - summary: Water plants
      uid: 01244b28-e604-11ee-a0a4-e45f0197c057
      status: needs_action
    - summary: turn down heating
      uid: ae993df4-e604-11ee-a0a4-e45f0197c057
      status: needs_action

Action todo.add_item

Add a new to-do item. A to-do list target is selected with a Target Selector and the data payload supports the following fields:

Data attribute Optional Description Example
item no The name/summary of the to-do item. Submit income tax return
due_date yes The date the to-do item is expected to be completed. 2024-04-10
due_datetime yes The date and time the to-do item is expected to be completed. 2024-04-10 23:00:00
description yes A more complete description than the one provided by the summary. Collect all necessary documents and submit the final return.

Only one of due_date or due_datetime may be specified.

This is a full example in YAML:

action: todo.add_item
target:
  entity_id: todo.personal_tasks
data:
  item: "Submit Income Tax Return"
  due_date: "2024-04-10"
  description: "Collect all necessary documents and submit the final return."

Action todo.update_item

Update a to-do item. A to-do list target is selected with a Target Selector and the data payload supports the following fields:

Data attribute Optional Description Example
item no The name/summary of the to-do item. In some cases, for example if you have items with the same name, it can make sense to use the UID instead of the name. To find the UID of an item, perform a get_items action on the to-do list. Submit income tax return or 01244b28-e604-11ee-a0a4-e45f0197c057
rename yes The new name of the to-do item. Something else
status yes The overall status of the to-do item. needs_action or completed
due_date yes The date the to-do item is expected to be completed. 2024-04-10
due_datetime yes The date and time the to-do item is expected to be completed. 2024-04-10 23:00:00
description yes A more complete description than the one provided by the summary. Collect all necessary documents and submit the final return.

At least one of rename or status is required. Only one of due_date or due_datetime may be specified. This is a full example that updates the status and the name of a to-do item.

action: todo.update_item
target:
  entity_id: todo.personal_tasks
data:
  item: "Submit income tax return"
  rename: "Something else"
  status: "completed"

Action todo.remove_item

Removing a to-do item. A to-do list target is selected with a Target Selector, and the data payload supports the following fields:

Data attribute Optional Description Example
item no The name/summary of the to-do item. In some cases, for example if you have items with the same name, it can make sense to use the UID instead of the name. To find the UID of an item, perform a get_items action on the to-do list. Submit income tax return or 01244b28-e604-11ee-a0a4-e45f0197c057

This is a full example that deletes a to-do Item with the specified name.

action: todo.remove_item
target:
  entity_id: todo.personal_tasks
data:
  item: "Submit income tax return"

Action todo.remove_completed_items

Removes all completed to-do items. A to-do list target is selected with a Target Selector.

This is a full example that deletes all completed to-do items.

action: todo.remove_completed_items
target:
  entity_id: todo.personal_tasks

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