Using background tasks in Django, but how exactly?

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So I tried to setup a simple poc, but cant get it to work. Somehow my worker does not receive any messages via the channels layer.

# asgi.py
application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
    "http": django_asgi_app,
    "websocket": URLRouter(websocket_urlpatterns),
    "channel": ChannelNameRouter({
        "node-manager": NodeManagerConsumer.as_asgi(),
    })
})

# consumer.py
class NodeConsumer(WebsocketConsumer):
    def connect(self):
        print("attempting connection") 
        async_to_sync(self.channel_layer.send(
            "node-manager",
            {
                "type": "request",
                "ip": "host.docker.internal",
                "port": "5123",
            }
        ))
        self.accept()

# consumer.py
class NodeManagerConsumer(SyncConsumer):
    def request(self, message):
        print("requested node")

This is my setup and I started the worker with python manage.py runworker node-manager but nothing happens. I dont know what Iam missing here. Redis is running and connected and when I checked the logs it does get some messages when I connect to the WebSocket Consumer.