# Installation

Channels is available on PyPI - to install it, just run:

    pip install -U channels

Once that’s done, you should add `channels` to your `INSTALLED_APPS` setting:

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        'django.contrib.auth',
        'django.contrib.contenttypes',
        'django.contrib.sessions',
        'django.contrib.sites',
        ...
        'channels',
    )

Then, make a default routing in `myproject/routing.py`:

    from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter

    application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
        # Empty for now (http->django views is added by default)
    })

And finally, set your `ASGI_APPLICATION` setting to point to that routing object as your root application:

    ASGI_APPLICATION = "myproject.routing.application"

That’s it! Once enabled, `channels` will integrate itself into Django and take control of the `runserver` command. See Introduction for more.

Note

Please be wary of any other third-party apps that require an overloaded or replacement `runserver` command. Channels provides a separate `runserver` command and may conflict with it. An example of such a conflict is with whitenoise.runserver_nostatic from whitenoise. In order to solve such issues, try moving `channels` to the top of your `INSTALLED_APPS` or remove the offending app altogether.

## Installing the latest development version

To install the latest version of Channels, clone the repo, change to the repo, change to the repo directory, and pip install it into your current virtual environment:

    $ git clone git@github.com:django/channels.git
    $ cd channels
    $ <activate your project’s virtual environment>
    (environment) $ pip install -e .  # the dot specifies the current repo