Error: Unable to reach Weather Underground

Hi!

I get this in the log and "No comm" as status for my WU device:

WUnderground Error - Unable to reach Weather Underground. Reason: Exception - 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 4: unexpected end of data

WUnderground Error - Sleeping until next scheduled poll.

Am I the only one?

Best regards, L

Hi Love - sorry that you're having trouble. I think you are the first to report this particular error.

If it is still occurring, please turn on debugging and post the results here or send them to me in a private message. Remember, there might be sensitive information in the log results so please be careful.

Dave

Sending PM

Got it, thanks. I will have a look and get back to you.

I wanted to let you know that I'm still looking into this case, Love. I must admit that this one is still stumping me. But I haven't given up. Thanks for your patience!

Dave

No problem, worth the wait!

I actually think that I have FINALLY figured this out. Where I thought that the error was part of the URL process that was pulling the data from Weather Underground, it was actually the encoding process that turns the JSON data into something that simplejson can understand. What made it weird was that it was choking in the independent plugin process but seemed to work as an embedded script in Indigo.

Anyway, the short version of the story is that this one location is encoded as "ISO-8859-1" rather than "UTF-8", and with the proper encoding, seems to be back on track.

I have a couple few other things to button up with the next update, but that shouldn't be too long now.

Dave

Great support!
Strange that this location differs in encoding :/
Looking forward to an update!

Best regards, L

Works great! Thank you for the update!

Thanks Love.

Dave