Solarlog integration setup fails

[schmetzyannick]

The problem

I have a solar log 500. The initial setup is not working at all.
I have reset the solar log to factory defaults. Home assitant is a frech installation inside a docker container (network_mode is host).

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.12.5

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

Solar log

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/solarlog

Diagnostics information

Failed setup, will retry: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 1051: invalid start byte

Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

2024-12-26 16:13:18.412 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.solarlog.coordinator] Start async_setup
2024-12-26 16:13:18.413 DEBUG (MainThread) [solarlog_cli.solarlog_connector] Start testing extended data available
2024-12-26 16:13:18.413 DEBUG (MainThread) [solarlog_cli.solarlog_client] HTTP-request header: {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}
2024-12-26 16:13:18.413 DEBUG (MainThread) [solarlog_cli.solarlog_client] HTTP-request body: {"740": null}
2024-12-26 16:13:18.625 DEBUG (MainThread) [solarlog_cli.solarlog_client] HTTP-request successful: <ClientResponse(http://192.168.8.87/getjp) [200 OK]>
<CIMultiDictProxy('Date': 'Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:13:19 GMT', 'Server': 'IPC@CHIP', 'Content-Type': 'text/html', 'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked')>

2024-12-26 16:13:18.633 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.solarlog.coordinator] Unexpected error fetching solarlog data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/update_coordinator.py", line 318, in __wrap_async_setup
    await self._async_setup()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/solarlog/coordinator.py", line 72, in _async_setup
    if logged_in or await self.solarlog.test_extended_data_available():
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/solarlog_cli/solarlog_connector.py", line 58, in test_extended_data_available
    await self.client.parse_http_response(
        await self.client.execute_http_request('{"740": null}')
    )
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/solarlog_cli/solarlog_client.py", line 132, in parse_http_response
    text = await response.text()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aiohttp/client_reqrep.py", line 1265, in text
    return self._body.decode(encoding, errors=errors)  # type: ignore[union-attr]
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 1051: invalid start byte

Additional information

Device: Solarlog 500
Firmwarevesrion: 2.2.0

[home-assistant]

Hey there @Ernst79, @dontinelli, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (solarlog) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!

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