Conditionally add to an array

I'm trying to add to an array in a IF condition but it's not appending although i'm in a foreach loop

what I have doesn't append to $connected but the key increments:

$key1 = '0';
foreach ($dataNewAndUnlock1 as $key => $val) {
    $stream = ssh2_exec($connection, 'ping -c 1 '. $val);

    stream_set_blocking($stream, true);

    while ($o = fgets($stream)) {
        $connected = array();

        if (strpos($o, 'ttl') !== false) {
            $connected[$key1] = $val;

            echo $val .' EnodeB is connected <br>';
            $key1++;
        }

        if (strpos($o, '0 received') !== false) {
            echo $val .' EnodeB NOT connected <br>';
        }
    }
}

$connnected gives something like this, then var_dump is empty at the end

C:\wamp64\www\SendJason2.php:286:
array (size=1)
  0 => string 'XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' (length=14)
C:\wamp64\www\SendJason2.php:286:
array (size=1)
  1 => string 'XXX.XX.XXX.XX' (length=13)
C:\wamp64\www\SendJason2.php:286:
array (size=1)
  2 => string 'XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' (length=14)
C:\wamp64\www\SendJason2.php:286:
array (size=1)
  3 => string 'XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' (length=14)
C:\wamp64\www\SendJason2.php:286:
array (size=1)
  4 => string 'XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' (length=14)
...

C:\wamp64\www\SendJason2.php:306:
array (size=0)
  empty