Dear list,

I want to create an automatic control of a patch which can freeze.

The first patch send every x seconds a signal via osc to an other patch. If the first patch does not respond after x+n seconds the first the second patch runs a shell script to killall pd instances

than run a shell script which starts the patches

like this:

/Applications/Pd-0.47-1-64bit.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd /Users/xxx/Desktop/OSCcontrol.pd
sleep 5
/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd-extended /Users/xxx/Desktop/OSCcontrolsend.pd

every time pd starts, each instance opens twice later even three times and so on. What is the solution? Why this happens?

Is there any hope?

Best,

Popesz