neatoserial[basic].py crashes in german latin1 environment

[sturmi]

Hi,
thank you for this great project!
neatoserial.py and netoserialbasic.py will crash when receiving error messages from Neato robot containing umlauts.
To correct that just change those lines:

        self.ser.write(inp.encode('utf-8'))
        time.sleep(1)
        while self.ser.inWaiting() > 0:   
            out += self.read_all(self.ser).decode('utf-8')

to

        self.ser.write(inp.encode('latin1'))
        time.sleep(1)
        while self.ser.inWaiting() > 0:   
            out += self.read_all(self.ser).decode('latin1')

regards
Thomas

[jeroenterheerdt]

Thanks, Please make a PR!

[sturmi]

Hi,
I don't understand what to do creating a pull request. Sorry.
Maybe you can add 'encode' and 'decode' to config.yaml. So user can choose which one to use.
Thanks