Remote Operation

Remote Interface Addressing

All commands must be issued with a multichannel address or the device must be selected using the:

*adr or :SYST[<channel>]:COMM[:MCH]:ADDR commands.

Once a device is selected all commands sent without a multichannel address will be handled by the selected device. The use of multichannel addresses supersedes the selected device as the destination for a message. For more details on how multichannel addresses affect responses, see Table 5-8.

To change the selected device simply issue the *adr or :SYST[<channel>]:COMM[:MCH]:ADDR command with a different multichannel address. The previously selected device will be deselected and the new device will be selected. From that point on, all messages without a multichannel address will be destined for the newly selected device. It is possible to deselect all devices by using the aforementioned commands with the broadcast address, 0.

The SCPI Commands for these instructions are:

[:]SYSTem:COMMunicate[:MCHannel]:ADDRess <address>

or

*ADR <address>

Where:

<address> is the multichannel address of the device to be selected. The address is an integer value from 1 to 30.

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