From e1ec6146c0d19d7d4dc021ed2afdd96d8d492518 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:09:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [wifi] Save 112 bytes BSS on ESP8266 by calling SDK directly
 for BSSID (#12137)

Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci-lite[bot] <117423508+pre-commit-ci-lite[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 esphome/components/wifi/wifi_component_esp8266.cpp | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/wifi/wifi_component_esp8266.cpp b/esphome/components/wifi/wifi_component_esp8266.cpp
index 540ad3a585..2d1f979c83 100644
--- a/esphome/components/wifi/wifi_component_esp8266.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/wifi/wifi_component_esp8266.cpp
@@ -878,10 +878,9 @@ network::IPAddress WiFiComponent::wifi_soft_ap_ip() {
 
 bssid_t WiFiComponent::wifi_bssid() {
   bssid_t bssid{};
-  uint8_t *raw_bssid = WiFi.BSSID();
-  if (raw_bssid != nullptr) {
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < bssid.size(); i++)
-      bssid[i] = raw_bssid[i];
+  struct station_config conf {};
+  if (wifi_station_get_config(&conf)) {
+    std::copy_n(conf.bssid, bssid.size(), bssid.begin());
   }
   return bssid;
 }