# Handling UDP communication

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**Category:** Async/Channels\
**Created:** [February 17, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/handling-udp-communication/28164 "2024-02-17T01:17:01Z")\
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Absolutely.

A full UDP listener in Python is less than 20 lines of real code. Writing the packets received to a Channels layer is also easy.

Writing this connector between your UDP source and a Django Channels consumer should be less than 50 lines.

See these threads for some ideas:

- [my first websocket](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/my-first-websocket/28036)
- [Using background tasks in Django, but how exactly?](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/using-background-tasks-in-django-but-how-exactly/28019)
- [Django iot data streaming into app](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-iot-data-streaming-into-app/18125)
- [How to integrate GPIO input into django?](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/how-to-integrate-gpio-input-into-django/15477)

If you still have questions after, we’ll still be here.

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