diff --git a/esphome/components/midea/appliance_base.h b/esphome/components/midea/appliance_base.h
index a866d3f51ba..bce433394b0 100644
--- a/esphome/components/midea/appliance_base.h
+++ b/esphome/components/midea/appliance_base.h
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@
 
 namespace esphome::midea {
 
+// Mirrors the ARDUINO switch in MideaUART Helpers/Platform.h: these types
+// exist in the dudanov namespace exactly when the library is not on Arduino
+#ifndef ARDUINO
+using dudanov::Stream;
+using dudanov::String;
+#endif
+
 /* Stream from UART component */
 class UARTStream : public Stream {
  public:
diff --git a/esphome/components/midea/climate.py b/esphome/components/midea/climate.py
index 292e7215a93..0e03bca2336 100644
--- a/esphome/components/midea/climate.py
+++ b/esphome/components/midea/climate.py
@@ -313,5 +313,5 @@ async def to_code(config):
     cg.add_library(
         name="MideaUART",
         version=None,
-        repository="https://github.com/dudanov/MideaUART.git#7a4d1e9a4b6f07a3464c2453ee828c0c7b7e1bcf",
+        repository="https://github.com/dudanov/MideaUART.git#eeea6c3e9b4474f067054592b435be1c4e466815",
     )
diff --git a/platformio.ini b/platformio.ini
index adc19954405..bf3b0685f8c 100644
--- a/platformio.ini
+++ b/platformio.ini
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ lib_deps_base =
 
 lib_deps =
     ${common.lib_deps_base}
-    https://github.com/dudanov/MideaUART.git#7a4d1e9a4b6f07a3464c2453ee828c0c7b7e1bcf ; midea
+    https://github.com/dudanov/MideaUART.git#eeea6c3e9b4474f067054592b435be1c4e466815 ; midea
     esphome/noise-c@0.1.11                 ; api
     improv/Improv@1.2.6                    ; improv_serial / esp32_improv
     kikuchan98/pngle@1.1.0                 ; online_image
diff --git a/tests/components/midea/test.esp32-idf.yaml b/tests/components/midea/test.esp32-idf.yaml
index ae12002b316..5ad22b5b93c 100644
--- a/tests/components/midea/test.esp32-idf.yaml
+++ b/tests/components/midea/test.esp32-idf.yaml
@@ -6,3 +6,10 @@ packages:
 wifi:
   ssid: MySSID
   password: password1
+
+# Regression test for https://github.com/esphome/esphome/issues/18054: the
+# MideaUART ESP-IDF shims must not make unqualified millis() ambiguous
+interval:
+  - interval: 10s
+    then:
+      - lambda: ESP_LOGD("test", "%u", millis());