Error loading ttf font for m5atom Example

[rhannink]

Hallo,

I try to run the ESPhome Example on my M5atom-matrix. I User the latest ESPHome 1.16. I het the following error running the Example:

ERROR Could not load truetype file DejaVuSans.ttf: expected string or bytes-like object

And idea what Goes wrong?

Gr. Remco

[wjcarpenter]

Do you have that TTF file in the same directory as the YAML file? If yes, I would look at it with a font viewer to see if it got corrupted somehow, or just download it again.

[rhannink]

Hello, The font file is in the same directory as the yaml file and I can open de ttf file on MacOS without and Problem. The font looks fine ?? Looks like a ESPHOME 1.16 or Python Pillow Problem when i search the Internet. I Use python 3.8.7 inside a Home Assistant Docker

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-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        705684 Mar  1 12:09 DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
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bash-5.0# 
bash-5.0# 
bash-5.0# esphome m5atom_marquee.yaml compile
INFO Reading configuration m5atom_marquee.yaml...
INFO Generating C++ source...
ERROR Could not load truetype file DejaVuSans.ttf: expected string or bytes-like object

Running with verbose shows:

DEBUG Adding: // font:
DEBUG Adding: //   id: tinyfont
//   file: DejaVuSans.ttf
//   size: 7
//   glyphs:
//   - ' '
//   - '!'
//   - '"'
//   - '%'
//   - (
//   - )
//   - +
//   - ','
//   - '-'
//   - .
//   - '0'
//   - '1'
//   - '2'
//   - '3'
//   - '4'
//   - '5'
//   - '6'
//   - '7'
//   - '8'
//   - '9'
//   - ':'
//   - A
//   - B
//   - C
//   - D
//   - E
//   - F
//   - G
//   - H
//   - I
//   - J
//   - K
//   - L
//   - M
//   - N
//   - O
//   - P
//   - Q
//   - R
//   - S
//   - T
//   - U
//   - V
//   - W
//   - X
//   - Y
//   - Z
//   - _
//   - a
//   - b
//   - c
//   - d
//   - e
//   - f
//   - g
//   - h
//   - i
//   - j
//   - k
//   - l
//   - m
//   - n
//   - o
//   - p
//   - q
//   - r
//   - s
//   - t
//   - u
//   - v
//   - w
//   - x
//   - y
//   - z
//   - °
//   raw_data_id: uint8_t_2
ERROR Could not load truetype file DejaVuSans.ttf: expected string or bytes-like object

Gr. Remco

[wjcarpenter]

I just recompiled the demo YAML with esphome 1.16.3 without complaint. My only change was pointing to a font file in a different location. (I have a "fonts" directory for reuse with various projects.) However, I run esphome standalone, not in the HA docker image. I also build on Linux instead of a Mac, but that shouldn't make any difference.

Sorry, I don't have any other ideas.