Laravel broadcastOn() method in event never fires - laravel

Question

I am new to laravel and to websockets. I have got my websockets working on the laravel-websockets dashboard, and now am trying to trigger a websocket event with this javascript command:
axios.post('updatequeue', {queue_position: newPos});
newPos is a number.
This is my controller method:
public function updateQueue(Request $request){
$queueposition = $request->input('queue_position');
event(new QueueUpdate($queueposition));
}
This is my Event:
class QueueUpdate implements ShouldBroadcast
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;
public $queue_position;
/**
* Create a new event instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($queue_position)
{
$this->queue_position = $queue_position;
}
/**
* Get the channels the event should broadcast on.
*
* #return \Illuminate\Broadcasting\Channel|array
*/
public function broadcastOn()
{
return new Channel('sessionid');
}
}
When I watch for events in the dashboard, nothing shows up. I get a 200 response from the axios request. I have placed logs throughout, and my events __construct method is called, but broadcastOn() is not.
I am really stuck here, if anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful.
EDIT
here is my broadcasting.php:
<?php
return [
'default' => env('BROADCAST_DRIVER', 'null'),
'connections' => [
'pusher' => [
'driver' => 'pusher',
'key' => env('PUSHER_APP_KEY'),
'secret' => env('PUSHER_APP_SECRET'),
'app_id' => env('PUSHER_APP_ID'),
'options' => [
'cluster' => env('PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER'),
'host' => env('WEBSOCKET_BROADCAST_HOST'),
'port' => env('WEBSOCKET_BROADCAST_PORT'),
'scheme' => env('WEBSOCKET_SCHEME'),
'encrypted' => env('WEBSOCKET_ENCRYPTED'),
],
],
'redis' => [
'driver' => 'redis',
'connection' => 'default',
],
'log' => [
'driver' => 'log',
],
'null' => [
'driver' => 'null',
],
],
];
and websockets.php:
<?php
use BeyondCode\LaravelWebSockets\Dashboard\Http\Middleware\Authorize;
return [
'dashboard' => [
'port' => env('LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_PORT', 6001),
],
'apps' => [
[
'id' => env('PUSHER_APP_ID'),
'name' => env('APP_NAME'),
'key' => env('PUSHER_APP_KEY'),
'secret' => env('PUSHER_APP_SECRET'),
'enable_client_messages' => false,
'enable_statistics' => true,
],
],
'app_provider' => BeyondCode\LaravelWebSockets\Apps\ConfigAppProvider::class,
'allowed_origins' => [
//
],
'max_request_size_in_kb' => 250,
'path' => 'laravel-websockets',
'middleware' => [
'web',
Authorize::class,
],
'statistics' => [
'model' => \BeyondCode\LaravelWebSockets\Statistics\Models\WebSocketsStatisticsEntry::class,
'interval_in_seconds' => 60,
'delete_statistics_older_than_days' => 60,
'perform_dns_lookup' => false,
],
'ssl' => [
'local_cert' => env('LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SSL_LOCAL_CERT', null),
'local_pk' => env('LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SSL_LOCAL_PK', null),
'passphrase' => env('LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SSL_PASSPHRASE', null),
'verify_peer' => env('LARAVEL_WEBSOCKETS_SSL_VERIFY_PEER', true),
],
'channel_manager' => \BeyondCode\LaravelWebSockets\WebSockets\Channels\ChannelManagers\ArrayChannelManager::class,
];
EDIT
I am local.
Here are the values for broadcasting.php:
'driver' => 'pusher',
'key' => portalkey,
'secret' => secret,
'app_id' => portalID,
'cluster' => portalcluster,
'host' => 127.0.0.1,
'port' => 6001,
'scheme' => http,
'encrypted' => false,

Answer 1

If you can connect to the laravel-websockets dashboard but the events won't show up, chances are your /laravel-websockets/auth request is failing due to csrf token. Try adding laravel-websockets to the $except variable in VerifyCsrfToken middleware.

Answer 2

You should set the QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync in your .env file.
This will make the broadcast work and fix your problem.