If you are using this software to download the data from your 
Aurora Inverter and have a public web site showing your data 
send me an email with the URL. I will be creating a web page 
on my Solar Web Site with those links. Tell everyone that you
know about this to do that also.
Email Solar at curtronics dot com with your URL.

If you are using this software to download data from your
Aroura Inverter and are doing so using the USB port on the
inverter I would like to hear from you. I'm particularly 
interested it whether or not you are getting lots of CRC
errors. I am working with one installation that is constantly
getting CRC errors on a USB connection and has to run the
program multiple times before it successfully gets the data.
I'd like to determine where the problem is in order to work
towards eliminating it.
Email Solar at curtronics dot com with your info. Thank you.

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Simply untar and 'make' - you're good to go.
Then doing 'make install' will put the binary in /usr/local/bin/
and the manpage in /usr/local/share/man/man1/ (Thank you Dustin
Kirkland for creating that manpage.)

(You may have to adjust the arch and tune flags in the Makefile
to match you architecture. If unsure just remove them. Also, 
comment out the BIT64 flag in the Makefile if not using a 64bit
CPU.)

You can access the documentation via 'aurora -h' or the manpage,
or for more in depth documentation, read the code.

If aurora cannot communicate with the Aurora Inverter is dies a
silent death to STDOUT but reports the lack of response to STDERR.
This is on purpose for data collection purposes so you can pipe
the data to a file without having any error messages in the file.
If a CRC error is encountered it will also be reported on STDERR
regardless. If in doubt about what's going on, use the verbose 
option to see.

This program has been tested using a standard serial port, i.e. 
/dev/ttyS1, and a USB serial port, /dev/ttyUSB0 with equal success.
The USB serial port was the BB DYNEX varity, DX-UBDB9 using the 
Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port. Development and 
testing was done on a SuSE Linux 10.0 (custom gen'd kernel) 
AMD Sempron 3000 laptop system, for ease of being able to test by
the Aurora Inverter, final destination has it running the data
collection on a SuSE Linux 10.0 (custom kernel) AMD Athlon(tm) XP 
3000+ server. 

An update to the platform in use, it is now SuSE Linux 11.2 with
their default kernel on a AMD Phenom 945.
