Django sending data from outside consumer class

I am trying to get use Django channels to send data over a websocket to my react native application from django. I have read all the available documentation on this subject on Django and have went through numerous stackoverflow posts, but I don't think they are applicable to me because they use redis and I decided not to use redis.

Whenever I try to send data right now, nothing sends.

These are my files.

models.py

from django.db import models
import json
from .consumers import DBUpdateConsumer
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.dispatch import receiver
from channels.layers import get_channel_layer
from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync



channel_layer = get_channel_layer()


class Connect(models.Model):
    id = models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')
    neighborhood = models.CharField(max_length=50, choices=neighborhood_choices, default='all')
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    email = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    phone = models.CharField(max_length=50)

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().save(self, *args, **kwargs)
        print("def save")
        async_to_sync(channel_layer.send)("hello", {"type": "something", "text": "hellooo"})


    class Meta:
        managed = False
        db_table = 'connect'

settings.py

CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
    "default": {
        "BACKEND": "channels.layers.InMemoryChannelLayer"
    }
}

consumers.py

import json
from channels.generic.websocket import AsyncJsonWebsocketConsumer


#used https://blog.logrocket.com/django-channels-and-websockets/
#https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/consumers.html

class DBUpdateConsumer(AsyncJsonWebsocketConsumer):
    async def connect(self):
        self.send_message(self, "UPDATE")

        
        await self.accept()

        await self.send(text_data=json.dumps({
            "payload": "UPDATE",
        }))
        print("connect!")

    async def disconnect(self, close_code):
        print("Disconnected")
        

    async def receive(self, text_data):
        """
        Receive message from WebSocket.
        Get the event and send the appropriate event
        """
        response = json.loads(text_data)
        #event = response.get("event", None)
        #message = response.get("message", None)

        print(response)
       

    @classmethod
    async def send_message(cls, self, res):
        # Send message to WebSocket
        print("send msg")
        await self.send(text_data=json.dumps({
            "payload": res,
        }))
        print("send msg")

What I am trying to do is whenever a new value is stored in my database, I am trying to send a message through a websocket that connects my react native app and my django backend. The websocket currently connects fine, but I am having trouble using the send_message function contained within my consumers.py file from outside consumers.py. So what I am trying to do is in my models.py file, send a message to all the channels that are open to eventually update my database. Currently, I am just trying to send test messages through, but no matter what I do, nothing goes through, and being a newbie to Django, I have no idea why.

Thank you!