Lopy LoRa socket timeout

[AHellLycan]

Hi, I’m noob with python and lora, I want to open a socket wait for a message, if there is no message then do something else, my code so far is:

  from network import LoRa
 import socket
 import machine
 import time
 import binascii
 import network

 n = 0
try:
     the_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_LORA, socket.SOCK_RAW)
except:
    exit('Error creating socket.')
the_sock.settimeout(5)
while True:
     try:
           n+=1
          print("Hola"+str(n))
          the_sock.setblocking(True)
          ack = the_sock.recv(64)
     except socket.timeout, e:
          err = e.args[0]
          print(err)
          break`

The problem is that the timeout it’s not working, I’ve checked some answers but the code looks good to me, can you help me please?

Kind Regards

[AHellLycan]

@livius Thank you so much!!! that's exactly what I needed

[livius]

@ahelllycan
change this to

the_sock.settimeout(5)
ack = the_sock.recv(64)

setblocking is only shortcut for timeout
if you settimeout first and then setblocking you change timeout to none

summary
settimeout(None) == setblocking(True)
settimeout(0) == setblocking(False)
settimeout(5) --- no equivalent in setblocking