From e2453dd5130b80ed9da4c187f87ab61d6984a1ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 17:27:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] optimize

---
 esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp | 2 +-
 esphome/components/api/api_connection.h   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
index 05fc223a06..cb3eef018e 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ void APIConnection::loop() {
       return;
   }
 
-  if (this->helper_->can_write_without_blocking()) {
+  if (!this->deferred_message_queue_.empty() && this->helper_->can_write_without_blocking()) {
     this->deferred_message_queue_.process_queue();
   }
 
diff --git a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.h b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.h
index 0c1f5461f3..dd24802e72 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.h
+++ b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.h
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ class DeferredMessageQueue {
   DeferredMessageQueue(APIConnection *api_connection) : api_connection_(api_connection) {}
   void process_queue();
   void defer(void *source, send_message_t send_message);
+  bool empty() const { return deferred_queue_.empty(); }
 };
 
 class APIConnection : public APIServerConnection {