Struggles w/ Intro Tutorial on Chat Server (from ReadTheDocs)

[mtastafford]

Hey there -- I'm trying to set up a personal streaming website, similar to twitch, for educational purposes. Part of this is implementing a chat server. I'm fairly up to speed on Django and how it works, but I'm quite new to Channels -- apologies for the beginner question.

I believe I've followed to tutorial in the documentation (parts 1->4 here: https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/part_1.html) correctly, but am having issues.

Currently, I can connect to the chat server and see messages being sent, however, it's not acting as I'd anticipate:

• When multiple users/connections are active, only the newest connection will receive messages;
• If there are multiple connections to the same 'room' they will receive n-copies of each message originating from that room;
• If there are connections to different rooms, the newest connection will receive 1-copy of each message originating from a different room

Currently running a DigitalOcean droplet, with NGINX, gunicorn (WSGI) and daphne (ASGI).

Current package versions are:

• Django = 3.2.2
• Channels = 3.0.0
• asgiref = 3.3.4
• channels-redis = 3.2.0
• daphne = 3.0.2
• redis = newest package available in docker (docker ps shows festive_zhukovsky)

I'm curious if there are any issues with some of the package versions that I'm using?

Help is appreciated -- I can paste some code dump if needed, but the relevant consumer/routing/asgi.py files are the same as shown in the tutorial.

EDIT -- I'd delete this discussion if I could -- but I can't find the button.. I'm rebuilding from scratch to confirm I didn't goof anything up.

[mtastafford]

Answering my own question. I rebuilt everything from scratch... I'm assuming I had some package that was installed incorrectly, or had been damaged / corrupted through some kind of versioning up/down-grade.