Socket reading script

[Will86]

Hello all,

I am writing a script to know the status of a networked device. A small API allow minimum integration.
My script is basically opening a socket and buffering the data from this socket in a while loop.
It seems that each time the loop is going on, I read the same data via s.recv(1024) and therefore duplicate my output.

Is there another method to avoid this?

Extract of my code

import socket
import time

def run(self):
        def timer(host,T,Fmax,ms1):
            ms1=self.ms1
            s.settimeout(T)
            F=1
            while True: #Ctrl+C to interrupt the loop
                time.sleep(0.5)
                try:
                    data=s.recv(1024)
                    data=data.decode()
                    data=data.strip()
                except socket.timeout:
                    F+=1
                    if F==Fmax or F>Fmax:
                        break

output is like :

Status 1
Status 1
Status 1
Status 1
Status 2
Status 2
Status 3

where the device is only changing status 3 times, I should have :

Status 1
Status 2
Status 3

Any idea of what socket module I should use to avoid that? Alternatively, is there any better way to do this?