localhost socket stuck with specific data ?

[Hadeel]

Trying to work on this but I am still keep failing....
With the status script above(with 0 sec interval), I figured out new connection is open every 10 seconds.
I guess it is because of the timeout that I set inside lutron_connect script

Code:

function lutron_connect()     local tcp = assert(socket.tcp())     tcp:settimeout(10)     local res, err = tcp:connect('172.16.1.10', 23)   if res then     return tcp   else     tcp:close()     return nil, err   end end

What I have tried with modifying status script is as below but it creates an infite roop inside LM....
Appreciate a lot if you could help.
Thank you so much!

Code:

if not tcp then   tcp, err = lutron_login()   if not tcp then     log('no connection to device', err) end end while tcp do   res, err = lutron_receive(tcp)     if (res == nil) then       return     else       log(res)     end      if (err ~= nil) then         alert('Lutron error '..err)     end end