From 7b4b8a045d098b1c3ca0b8821912a4111b700451 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan <ryan@hdnastudio.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 04:13:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Strip any leading null characters from data before trying to
 parse message

---
 alarmdecoder/decoder.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/alarmdecoder/decoder.py b/alarmdecoder/decoder.py
index 568de9d..19349ca 100644
--- a/alarmdecoder/decoder.py
+++ b/alarmdecoder/decoder.py
@@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ class AlarmDecoder(object):
 
         :returns: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.messages.Message`
         """
+        data = data.lstrip('\0')
+
         if data is None:
             raise InvalidMessageError()