diff --git a/resources/lib/loghandler.py b/resources/lib/loghandler.py
index 9aebb3e9..f81c962d 100644
--- a/resources/lib/loghandler.py
+++ b/resources/lib/loghandler.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 ###############################################################################
 import logging
 import xbmc
-
-from utils import tryEncode
 ###############################################################################
 LEVELS = {
     logging.ERROR: xbmc.LOGERROR,
@@ -14,6 +12,22 @@ LEVELS = {
 ###############################################################################
 
 
+def tryEncode(uniString, encoding='utf-8'):
+    """
+    Will try to encode uniString (in unicode) to encoding. This possibly
+    fails with e.g. Android TV's Python, which does not accept arguments for
+    string.encode()
+    """
+    if isinstance(uniString, str):
+        # already encoded
+        return uniString
+    try:
+        uniString = uniString.encode(encoding, "ignore")
+    except TypeError:
+        uniString = uniString.encode()
+    return uniString
+
+
 def config():
     logger = logging.getLogger('PLEX')
     logger.addHandler(LogHandler())