diff --git a/homeassistant/components/asuswrt/router.py b/homeassistant/components/asuswrt/router.py
index 6f22ddbbd6e..4cea9148470 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/asuswrt/router.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/asuswrt/router.py
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ async def _get_nvram_info(api: AsusWrt, info_type: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
     info = {}
     try:
         info = await api.async_get_nvram(info_type)
-    except OSError as exc:
+    except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError) as exc:
         _LOGGER.warning("Error calling method async_get_nvram(%s): %s", info_type, exc)
 
     return info