diff --git a/components/esp_driver_rmt/include/driver/rmt_encoder.h b/components/esp_driver_rmt/include/driver/rmt_encoder.h
index 91ee775068..57270abeff 100644
--- a/components/esp_driver_rmt/include/driver/rmt_encoder.h
+++ b/components/esp_driver_rmt/include/driver/rmt_encoder.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021-2022 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021-2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
@@ -98,6 +98,21 @@ typedef struct {
  */
 esp_err_t rmt_new_bytes_encoder(const rmt_bytes_encoder_config_t *config, rmt_encoder_handle_t *ret_encoder);
 
+/**
+ * @brief Update the configuration of the bytes encoder
+ *
+ * @note The configurations of the bytes encoder is also set up by `rmt_new_bytes_encoder()`.
+ *       This function is used to update the configuration of the bytes encoder at runtime.
+ *
+ * @param[in] bytes_encoder Bytes encoder handle, created by e.g `rmt_new_bytes_encoder()`
+ * @param[in] config Bytes encoder configuration
+ * @return
+ *      - ESP_OK: Update RMT bytes encoder successfully
+ *      - ESP_ERR_INVALID_ARG: Update RMT bytes encoder failed because of invalid argument
+ *      - ESP_FAIL: Update RMT bytes encoder failed because of other error
+ */
+esp_err_t rmt_bytes_encoder_update_config(rmt_encoder_handle_t bytes_encoder, const rmt_bytes_encoder_config_t *config);
+
 /**
  * @brief Create RMT copy encoder, which copies the given RMT symbols into RMT memory
  *
diff --git a/components/esp_driver_rmt/src/rmt_encoder.c b/components/esp_driver_rmt/src/rmt_encoder.c
index 04e6f2d558..d5d0c6429c 100644
--- a/components/esp_driver_rmt/src/rmt_encoder.c
+++ b/components/esp_driver_rmt/src/rmt_encoder.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-2023 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
@@ -275,6 +275,16 @@ err:
     return ret;
 }
 
+esp_err_t rmt_bytes_encoder_update_config(rmt_encoder_handle_t bytes_encoder, const rmt_bytes_encoder_config_t *config)
+{
+    ESP_RETURN_ON_FALSE(bytes_encoder && config, ESP_ERR_INVALID_ARG, TAG, "invalid argument");
+    rmt_bytes_encoder_t *encoder = __containerof(bytes_encoder, rmt_bytes_encoder_t, base);
+    encoder->bit0 = config->bit0;
+    encoder->bit1 = config->bit1;
+    encoder->flags.msb_first = config->flags.msb_first;
+    return ESP_OK;
+}
+
 esp_err_t rmt_new_copy_encoder(const rmt_copy_encoder_config_t *config,  rmt_encoder_handle_t *ret_encoder)
 {
     esp_err_t ret = ESP_OK;