I'm going to answer my own question:
Appears that I need to use the "immediately" keyword are to Channel or
Group.send.
On Monday, January 16, 2017 at 5:27:19 AM UTC-7, Joshua Gardner wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of developing a Websockets notifications system using
> Channels. I've got a JsonWebsocketConsumer that adds the connection to a
> group for the Location (model) that the user belongs to. Connecting to that
> websocket with wscat, and trying to see if sending to that group works, I
> do Group(location.group_name).send({'text': '"some json"'}) within the
> Django shell. I *am* using the Redis channels backend. Even so, nothing
> is sent to the connected group. I even try sending to the reply_channel of
> the websocket connection from within the shell, and nothing is sent.
>
> Do channels not work in the Django shell, or is something else possibly
> broken?
>
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