| Command | Description |
| {A | Clears screen and moves cursor to home positions at x = 0, y = 0. Requires a 5-ms pause before sending more data. |
| {BE | Turn on display. Any text in display RAM is displayed. |
| {BD | Turn off text display. Existing text is maintained in display RAM and will reappear with a {BE command. Characters can be written to display RAM with display disabled. |
| {Cxxyy | Move cursor to xx,yy where xx and yy are two-digit numbers. No range check. |
| {Dn | Set character cell background color (0–7). Depends on {Kx command for background enable/disable. Local mode only. |
| {En | Set character color (0–7). Local mode only. |
| {Fn | Set screen color (0–7). Local mode only. |
| {GE | Blink enable. Subsequent characters blink. |
| {GD | Blink disable. Subsequent characters won’t blink. |
| {HN | Use internal video levels. |
| {HX | Use external video levels set with potentiometers. (Not used on PIC-TV) |
| {In | Set character outline color (0–7). Local mode only. |
| {JE | Only cell backgrounds are colored with color set by {Dn. Note {KE must be sent to enable backgrounds. |
| {JD | Entire character grid is colored with {Dn background color. Noncharacter area is set to screen color. Makes a nice two-color screen. |
| {KE | Enable character backgrounds. |
| {KD | Disable character backgrounds |
| {MF | Local mode select. Forces BOB-II to generate video signal internally using current color settings. |
| {MM | Genlock/Overlay mode select. Monochrome text is overlaid on any existing video signal. If no video signal is present, the BOB-II remains in local mode. |
| {T..<ESC> | Used to output special characters by their byte code. The codes are not ASCII! |
Table 1—The BOB-II command set is compact making it ideal for machine to machine communication. There are no cursor control commands except for moving to a specific set of coordinates. Any other cursor control must be handled by a host processor (i.e., the PIC-TV).