From a44822acf596aab641f66909bdb432bebb1db39a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brice Boucard <bricebou@momh.fr>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:02:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Solve the "POST data should be bytes, an iterable of bytes,
 or a file object. It cannot be of type str." issue thanks to 
 https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-netatmo/issues/15#issuecomment-628994957

---
 bin/user/netatmo.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/user/netatmo.py b/bin/user/netatmo.py
index 2f4a512..6cdca34 100644
--- a/bin/user/netatmo.py
+++ b/bin/user/netatmo.py
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ class CloudClient(Collector):
     def post_request(url, params):
         # netatmo response body size is limited to 64K
         url = CloudClient.NETATMO_URL + url
-        params = urlencode(params)
+        params = urlencode(params).encode("utf-8")
         headers = {
             "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8"}
         logdbg("url: %s data: %s hdr: %s" % (url, params, headers))