diff --git a/rx/WenetPackets.py b/rx/WenetPackets.py
index 83a569e..c8f2b54 100644
--- a/rx/WenetPackets.py
+++ b/rx/WenetPackets.py
@@ -556,7 +556,8 @@ def sec_payload_decode(packet):
     packet = bytes(bytearray(packet))
     message = {}
     try:
-        message['id'] = struct.unpack("B",packet[1])[0]
+        #message['id'] = struct.unpack("B",packet[1:2])[0]
+        message['id'] = packet[1]
         message['payload'] = packet[2:]
     except:
         return {'error': 'Could not decode secondary payload packet.'}
diff --git a/rx/sec_payload_rx_example.py b/rx/sec_payload_rx_example.py
index 3f3ca38..f661743 100644
--- a/rx/sec_payload_rx_example.py
+++ b/rx/sec_payload_rx_example.py
@@ -31,11 +31,12 @@ def process_sec_text_message(payload):
     payload (str): The packet payload as a string, or a list.
     """
     # Convert the payload into a string if it isn't already.
-    payload = str(bytearray(payload))
+    payload = bytes(bytearray(payload))
 
     # Attempt to decode the text message from the payload.
     try:
-        _len = struct.unpack("B",payload[1])[0]
+        #_len = struct.unpack("B",payload[1])[0]
+        _len = payload[1]
         _count = struct.unpack(">H",payload[2:4])[0]
         _text = payload[4:4+_len]
     except:
@@ -53,13 +54,14 @@ def process_sec_floats(payload):
     payload (str): The packet payload as a string, or a list.
     """
     # Convert the payload into a string if it isn't already.
-    payload = str(bytearray(payload))
+    payload = bytes(bytearray(payload))
 
     output = []
 
     try:
         # Second byte in the packet is the number of floats present.
-        _len = struct.unpack("B", payload[1])[0]
+        #_len = struct.unpack("B", payload[1])[0]
+        _len = payload[1]
 
         for _i in range(_len):
             _float = struct.unpack(">f", payload[2+_i*4: 6+_i*4])[0]
@@ -106,7 +108,7 @@ def process_udp(udp_packet):
     """ Process received UDP packets. """
 
     # Parse JSON
-    packet_dict = json.loads(udp_packet)
+    packet_dict = json.loads(udp_packet.decode())
 
     # There may be other UDP traffic on this port, so we filter for just 'WENET'
     # telemetry packets.
@@ -114,6 +116,8 @@ def process_udp(udp_packet):
         # Extract the actual packet contents from the JSON blob.
         packet = packet_dict['packet']
 
+        print(packet)
+
         # Check for a 'secondary payload' packet
         if decode_packet_type(packet) == WENET_PACKET_TYPES.SEC_PAYLOAD_TELEMETRY:
             # If we have one, extract the secondary payload ID, and the packet contents.
diff --git a/tx/examples/sec_payload_tx_example.py b/tx/examples/sec_payload_tx_example.py
index 543b8f5..3f11ee7 100644
--- a/tx/examples/sec_payload_tx_example.py
+++ b/tx/examples/sec_payload_tx_example.py
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ def emit_secondary_packet(id=0, packet="", repeats = 1, hostname='<broadcast>',
 
     # Send to target hostname. If this fails just send to localhost.
     try:
-        telemetry_socket.sendto(json.dumps(data), (hostname, port))
+        telemetry_socket.sendto(json.dumps(data).encode(), (hostname, port))
     except socket.error:
-        telemetry_socket.sendto(json.dumps(data), ('127.0.0.1', port))
+        telemetry_socket.sendto(json.dumps(data).encode(), ('127.0.0.1', port))
 
     telemetry_socket.close()
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def create_text_message(message):
     _PACKET_COUNTER = text_message_counter
 
     # Assemble the packet.
-    _packet = struct.pack(">BBH", _PACKET_TYPE, _PACKET_LEN, _PACKET_COUNTER) + message
+    _packet = struct.pack(">BBH", _PACKET_TYPE, _PACKET_LEN, _PACKET_COUNTER) + message.encode('ascii')
 
     return _packet
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ def create_arbitrary_float_packet(data=[0.0, 0.1]):
     _PACKET_LEN = len(data)
 
     # Convert the list of floats into a byte array representation.
-    _float_bytes = bytes("")
+    _float_bytes = b""
 
     for _val in data:
         _float_bytes += struct.pack(">f", _val)