From 7514c0ce552a4f38430e5f544bb5872ac55d0ac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rossen Georgiev <zoorty@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:02:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] comment telemetry bits should always have 8bits

---
 aprslib/parse.py | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aprslib/parse.py b/aprslib/parse.py
index a74fa3e..c68b54d 100644
--- a/aprslib/parse.py
+++ b/aprslib/parse.py
@@ -757,7 +757,9 @@ def _parse_comment_telemetry(text):
     Looks for base91 telemetry found in comment field
     Returns [remaining_text, telemetry]
     """
+    parsed = {}
     match = re.findall(r"^(.*?)\|([!-{]{4,14})\|(.*)$", text)
+
     if match and len(match[0][1]) % 2 == 0:
         text, telemetry, post = match[0]
         text += post
@@ -766,18 +768,16 @@ def _parse_comment_telemetry(text):
         for i in range(7):
             temp[i] = base91.to_decimal(telemetry[i*2:i*2+2])
 
-        parsed = {
+        parsed.update({
             'telemetry': {
                 'seq': temp[0],
                 'vals': temp[1:6]
                 }
-            }
+            })
 
         if temp[6] != '':
             parsed['telemetry'].update({
-                'bits': "{0:08b}".format(int(temp[6]))
+                'bits': "{0:08b}".format(temp[6] & 0xFF)
                 })
 
-        return (text, parsed)
-    else:
-        return (text, {})
+    return (text, parsed)