Hello,
I try to check if there is something connected an inlet~ in an abstraction:
if something is connected (like a lfo) then use this LFO foer driving the following process
if nothing is connected then use the values which are in the subpatch

It should work when connecting or disconnecting something to the abstraction.
I tried using RMS to check if there is a signal at the inpt.. but it does not seem really reliable.

Any idea ?

Thank you for help

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@JMC64 An unconnected [inlet~] produces a stream of zero values, so........

Should report that it connected within 10ms.
But because most audio signals pass through zero very often the result is unstable.
You need to find the average of the incoming signal and so do it something like this........

[avg~] is in the cyclone and the zexy libraries.
David.

@Dave : thank you a lot .
Here is what I did.. And sitll the same trouble.

When disconnecting the extenal input to the inlet~ .. then the "hand" is not given back to the previous value ( see the 0 in the snapshot number box.. I wish i would be the value of mtof(45).

@JMC64 It's hard to tell in a screenshot but I think you have connected the output of [> 0] to the right inlet of [- 1] where it needs to be the left (hot) inlet.
And [clip~ 0.1 0.9] is stopping the test signal from falling back to zero so the output of [avg~] will always be 1......... you don't need [clip~]....
David.

Ohh you're right.. The mistake was the clip~ . Now every solution works ( with else/rms~ or cyclone/avg~ or even expr~

thank you a lot.!