New remote kernel prompt in spyder console keeps appearing

[jsialar]

I launched a remote kernel on my Centos server and connected to it on Spyder on my windows PC through SSH.
The problem is that a new IPython prompt 'In [1]:' keeps appearing about every 3 seconds in my console, and the number in the square bracket doesn't change. If I take more than 3 seconds to enter a command, a new prompt appears and what I have typed in before doesn't get carried over to the new prompt.
I understand this may not even be a problem with the spyder_kernels package but I just want to check.
I am using Spyder 3.3.6 on both my server and PC, and 0.5.2 for spyder-kernels on my server.
Thank you.

[ccordoba12]

Duplicate of #89