From 858ea16f91a80c5bd949a2c16c3be262516e23de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 12:41:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 8266

---
 esphome/components/api/api_connection.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.h b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.h
index ee230a0d06..a6da2fbeeb 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.h
+++ b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.h
@@ -487,8 +487,13 @@ class APIConnection : public APIServerConnection {
       uint32_t timestamp;      // When this update was queued
       uint16_t message_type;   // Message type for overhead calculation
 
+      // Default constructor
+      BatchItem() : entity(nullptr), timestamp(0), message_type(0) {}
+
       // Constructor for creating BatchItem
-      BatchItem(EntityBase *entity, MessageCreator creator, uint32_t timestamp, uint16_t message_type)
+      BatchItem(EntityBase *entity,
+                std::function<EncodedMessage(EntityBase *, APIConnection *, uint32_t, bool)> creator,
+                uint32_t timestamp, uint16_t message_type)
           : entity(entity), creator(std::move(creator)), timestamp(timestamp), message_type(message_type) {}
     };