diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7517f6d26cbf..88c52a8ba20f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ### Changed
 
 ### Fixed
+- Berry `input()` returns empty string and does not crash
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/lib/libesp32/berry_tasmota/src/be_port.cpp b/lib/libesp32/berry_tasmota/src/be_port.cpp
index 0c70bf61c55f..db40e153f0ea 100644
--- a/lib/libesp32/berry_tasmota/src/be_port.cpp
+++ b/lib/libesp32/berry_tasmota/src/be_port.cpp
@@ -216,7 +216,10 @@ extern "C" {
 
 BERRY_API char* be_readstring(char *buffer, size_t size)
 {
-    return be_fgets(stdin, buffer, (int)size);
+    if ((size > 0) && (buffer != NULL)) {
+        *buffer = 0;
+    }
+    return buffer;
 }
 
 /* use the standard library implementation file API. */