Well I don't know what a BOM is (in the weewx context), but what I did was install the rpm and take all the defaults so the Simulator was used, then I stopped weewx and tried to use wee_config --reconfig and it duplicated the error exactly.
On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 2:05:58 PM UTC-7 matthew wall wrote: > On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 11:11:59 AM UTC-4 kheller2 wrote: > >> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1457, in >> _handle_bom >> if not line.startswith(BOM): >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: >> ordinal not in range(128) >> > > the first think i thought of was the BOM problem that was fixed in issue: > > https://github.com/weewx/weewx/issues/172 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7af9e079-c395-4b52-84f9-f31664f9288bn%40googlegroups.com.