hi thomas,
I read:
It seems that PD has no idea of timing in case there is no audio.... i think this is really weak and there should be some kind of dummy timebase i such situations... or is there another workaround?
I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do but pd works like a charm -noaudio -nogui for message based things (including time based objects) on remote machines for me.
take care,
x