From 3826e9550616bf154fcdcb2541289b9bf2f3a1db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:14:36 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] [api] Fix ProtoMessage protected destructor compile error on
 host platform (#14882)

---
 esphome/components/api/proto.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/esphome/components/api/proto.h b/esphome/components/api/proto.h
index 6752dfb9cd..d6e993d3a5 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/proto.h
+++ b/esphome/components/api/proto.h
@@ -442,8 +442,12 @@ class ProtoMessage {
   virtual const char *message_name() const { return "unknown"; }
 #endif
 
+#ifndef USE_HOST
  protected:
+#endif
   // Non-virtual destructor is protected to prevent polymorphic deletion.
+  // On host platform, made public to allow value-initialization of std::array
+  // members (e.g. DeviceInfoResponse::devices) without clang errors.
   ~ProtoMessage() = default;
 };