Home Assistant preset errors

Had to restore backed up config & presets for a ESP32 WLED device that I accidentally flashed a ESP8266 firmware to. Reflashed over USB then reconfigured and HA is throwing a fit when I use presets. Saw reference to it likely being a corrupted preset json. Did json and utf-8 validations on that and the configuration backups; found no errors. Manually went through the files to the error locations and retyped the characters again; no change. Reset the device and restored the presets using the original API commands without restoring the preset backup. Nothing I’m doing is stopping this error

Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: helpers/aiohttp_client.py:73
Integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 09:30:27 (14 occurrences)
Last logged: 11:03:01

[139680863948480] 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc0 in position 861: invalid start byte
[139680859908928] 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 863: invalid continuation byte
[139680867934144] 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 1086: invalid start byte
[139680850886976] 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 863: invalid continuation byte
[139681106298432] 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x95 in position 861: invalid start byte
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 226, in handle_call_service
    await hass.services.async_call(
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1974, in async_call
    response_data = await coro
                    ^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 2011, in _execute_service
    return await target(service_call)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_component.py", line 235, in handle_service
    return await service.entity_service_call(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 870, in entity_service_call
    response_data = await _handle_entity_call(
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/service.py", line 942, in _handle_entity_call
    result = await task
             ^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/select/__init__.py", line 106, in async_select_option
    await entity.async_select_option(option)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/wled/helpers.py", line 28, in handler
    await func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/wled/select.py", line 102, in async_select_option
    await self.coordinator.wled.preset(preset=option)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/wled/wled.py", line 553, in preset
    await self.request("/json/state", method="POST", data={"ps": preset})
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/backoff/_async.py", line 151, in retry
    ret = await target(*args, **kwargs)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/wled/wled.py", line 211, in request
    response_data = await response.json()
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/aiohttp_client.py", line 73, in json
    return await super().json(*args, loads=loads, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/aiohttp/client_reqrep.py", line 1120, in json
    return loads(stripped.decode(encoding))
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x9f in position 861: invalid start byte