From a2321edf3c7dcb7b38adbc77816bcf23dcd44595 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:59:16 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [network] Fix IPAddress constructor causing comparison
 failures and garbage output (#12005)

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

diff --git a/esphome/components/network/ip_address.h b/esphome/components/network/ip_address.h
index 5ec6450cc..3d8b062d0 100644
--- a/esphome/components/network/ip_address.h
+++ b/esphome/components/network/ip_address.h
@@ -81,7 +81,12 @@ struct IPAddress {
     ip_addr_.type = IPADDR_TYPE_V6;
   }
 #endif /* LWIP_IPV6 */
-  IPAddress(esp_ip4_addr_t *other_ip) { memcpy((void *) &ip_addr_, (void *) other_ip, sizeof(esp_ip4_addr_t)); }
+  IPAddress(esp_ip4_addr_t *other_ip) {
+    memcpy((void *) &ip_addr_, (void *) other_ip, sizeof(esp_ip4_addr_t));
+#if LWIP_IPV6
+    ip_addr_.type = IPADDR_TYPE_V4;
+#endif
+  }
   IPAddress(esp_ip_addr_t *other_ip) {
 #if LWIP_IPV6
     memcpy((void *) &ip_addr_, (void *) other_ip, sizeof(ip_addr_));