HI,
being quite new with PD, i am doing and art project where i'm implementing PD as a frequency oscillator. it's an interactive installation where (simply put) participants change the frequency of the sine-wave by pressing keys (N for down and M for up).
What i want to do is that, when there is no one interacting with the piece for, let's say, 2 minutes, frequencies start to change randomly.
I have everything sorted out except one thing and that is how to tell spigot (or should i use something else) to put it self in closed state when there is interaction (someone pressing keys) , and to open again after there is no interaction for a certain period of time.

I'm on mac PD vanilla 0.49-1)

thanks ivan

@VitaminK You can use [delay] which will hold your bang, and send it out later.
Spigot is fine.
Something like this should do it....... 10 seconds before the random messages are allowed through the spigot..........
Change [delay 10000] to [delay 5000] for 5 seconds etc.
For 2 minutes....... [delay 120000]

David.

@whale-av Thanks David. in the mean time i figured some solution my self by using |delay| fed into |float}...|delay| is receiving bang from the key-strokes... will try your solution as well though.

thanks once again...
Ivan