How do you receive group messages outside of consumer?

[hasan Infogeek]

Right now my application relies on async_to_sync(channel_layer.group_send) to send messages to the group

but I can't find a channel_layer.group_receive or equivalent function.

I can write a websocket client that connect to the group that will receive the messages but it would be better if i could use channel_layer to reduce complexity and increase reliability.