diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 54e60b8..d2a635b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ pip install gattlib
 ```
 
 this requires Bluez 5.37 or higher to be installed as well. 
-Gattlib requires libbluetooth-dev and libboost-python-dev to be available as well.
+Gattlib dependencies:
+```
+sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev
+sudo apt-get install libboost-thread-dev
+sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
+```
 
 To run this as non-root run the following
 ```
diff --git a/miflora.py b/miflora.py
index 7ebfe76..0d4efb0 100644
--- a/miflora.py
+++ b/miflora.py
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 		requester = GATTRequester(address, True)
 		#Read battery and firmware version attribute
 		data=requester.read_by_handle(0x0038)[0]
-		battery, firmware = unpack('<xB5s',data)
+		battery, firmware = unpack('<B6s',data)
+		firmware = firmware.replace('\'', '')
 		msgs.append({'topic': topic + 'battery', 'payload':battery})
 		msgs.append({'topic': topic + 'firmware', 'payload':firmware})
 		#Enable real-time data reading