Test polling works

recircle/recircle/__init__.py

-from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
-
-# This will make sure the app is always imported when
-# Django starts so that shared_task will use this app.
-from .celery import app as celery_app
-
-__all__ = ('celery_app',)

recircle/recircle/celery.py

@@ -5,15 +5,17 @@ import os
 from celery import Celery
 
 # set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
-os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'proj.settings')
+os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'recircle.settings.base')
 
-app = Celery('proj')
+app = Celery('recircle')
 
 # Using a string here means the worker doesn't have to serialize
 # the configuration object to child processes.
 # - namespace='CELERY' means all celery-related configuration keys
 #   should have a `CELERY_` prefix.
-app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
+# app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings.base', namespace='CELERY')
+
+app.conf.broker_url = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
 
 # Load task modules from all registered Django app configs.
 app.autodiscover_tasks()
@@ -22,3 +24,17 @@ app.autodiscover_tasks()
 @app.task(bind=True)
 def debug_task(self):
     print('Request: {0!r}'.format(self.request))
+
+
+# Testing the periodic tasks
+@app.on_after_configure.connect
+def setup_periodic_tasks(sender, **kwargs):
+    # Calls test('hello') every 10 seconds.
+    sender.add_periodic_task(10.0, test.s('hello'), name='add every 10')
+
+
+@app.task
+def test(arg):
+    from instance.models import Instance
+    for instance in Instance.objects.all():
+        instance.update_status()

recircle/recircle/settings/base.py

@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     "corsheaders",
     "guardian",
     "django_nose",
-    "channels"
+    "channels",
+    "django_celery_beat",
 ]
 
 LOCAL_APPS = [
@@ -243,6 +244,8 @@ AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
     'guardian.backends.ObjectPermissionBackend',
 )
 
+# Channels settings
+
 CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
     'default': {
         'BACKEND': 'channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer',
@@ -253,3 +256,7 @@ CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
 }
 
 ASGI_APPLICATION = "recircle.routing.application"
+
+# Celery settings
+
+CELERY_BROKER_URL = "redis://localhost:6379/0"

recircle/status/tasks.py

+