First try on a UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion.

ptpip.py

@@ -26,6 +26,22 @@ class PTPIP:
         payload = self.socket.recv(pklen_int - 8)
         return (pktype_int, payload)
 
+    # see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2781.txt
+    def utf16to8(self, u16text):
+        u8text = ""
+        for i in range(0, len(u16text), 2):
+            char16 = u16text[i:i+2]
+            char16 = struct.unpack('<H', char16)[0]
+            if char16 < 0xd800 or char16 > 0xdfff:
+                u8text += chr(char16)
+            else:
+                print("Encoded UTF-16. Please improve this method.")
+        return u8text
+
+    # see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2781.txt
+    def utf8to16(self, u8text):
+        pass
+
     def getSocket(self):
         return self.socket
 
@@ -33,4 +49,12 @@ class PTPIP:
         pkg = self.createPkg(1, str.encode(guid[:16]) + str.encode(identifier))
         self.socket.send(pkg)
         result = self.recvPkg()
-        return result
+        if result[0] == 5:
+            print("INIT FAILED!")
+            return False
+        elif result[0] != 2:
+            print("Unknown package type: %i" % result[0])
+            return False
+        remote_guid = result[1][0:16]
+        remote_name = self.utf16to8(result[1][16:])
+        return (remote_guid, remote_name)