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Appendix B. SDI-12 Commands/ 
Changing Settings 
The SDI-12 commands are entered using the 25616, Adjustment/Display 
Module, or the terminal emulator in LoggerNet or PC400 (see Appendix B.2, 
Using Terminal Emulator and a Datalogger to Send Commands). These 
commands are also used in CRBasic or Edlog programming (see Section 7.5, 
Programming). 
SDI-12 commands have three components:
Sensor address (a) – a single ASCII character, and is the first character of the 
command. The sensor address allows multiple sensors to be connected to a 
single control port. The default address is zero, and typically is only changed 
when multiple sensors are connected to the same port. Valid addresses are 1 to 
9, A to Z, or a to z. 
Command body (e.g., M1) – an upper case letter (the “command”) followed by 
alphanumeric qualifiers. 
Command termination (!) – an exclamation mark.
An active sensor responds to each command. Responses have several standard 
forms and terminate with 
commands supported by the radar sensors are listed in TABLE B-1. 
B-1
