From 76fda4d4a2ffb953acc9bc678168ec5e2baa52f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@home-assistant.io>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:34:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [e131] Use uint16_t for consumer refcount

Struct pads to 4 bytes either way due to alignment, so this is free.
---
 esphome/components/e131/e131.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/e131/e131.h b/esphome/components/e131/e131.h
index 838e30483d..776178b627 100644
--- a/esphome/components/e131/e131.h
+++ b/esphome/components/e131/e131.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ struct E131Packet {
 
 struct UniverseConsumer {
   uint16_t universe;
-  uint8_t consumers;
+  uint16_t consumers;
 };
 
 class E131Component : public esphome::Component {