i am hoping to let my arduino wait for an x amount of time, and if x time is up, the mcu will send a message. or, if the message were to arrive anytime during x time, the mcu will send the message. is there some method i can use? delay is not going to work here..

wait for response for x time, send a message by x time, or when response receive

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