Yes, playing with it I discovered just what you said re: %alarm call behavior. The initial call to #alarm is in fact arbitrary since it gets overwritten immediately anyway with the first trigger hit. ...
Charneus is correct. What I'm looking for is a watchdog that the connection is actually still active and not just really quiet. If I understand MattLofton's comment, I can achieve this a little more ...
This may be a weird request, but I hope someone here can tell me if this is possible. I would like to write a trigger the fires after a certain period of time of receiving nothing at all from the mud ...