From edeafd5a537f944ae8d4b8e62dc562c731ecc87c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:31:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] preen

---
 esphome/components/api/api_server.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/api/api_server.cpp b/esphome/components/api/api_server.cpp
index 97c8ffcc75..046053872a 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/api_server.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/api/api_server.cpp
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ void APIServer::schedule_reboot_timeout_() {
 
 void APIServer::loop() {
   // Accept new clients only if the socket exists and has incoming connections
-  if (this->socket_->ready()) {
+  if (this->socket_ && this->socket_->ready()) {
     while (true) {
       struct sockaddr_storage source_addr;
       socklen_t addr_len = sizeof(source_addr);