Phoenix Channel sending messages from a client outside the project

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I was successful in sending a message repeatedly from a python client to the phoenix channel. :smiley:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import asyncio
import websockets
import json





async def hello():
	async with websockets.connect('ws://127.0.0.1:4000/socket/websocket') as websocket:
		data = dict(topic="users:my_token", event="phx_join", payload={}, ref=None)
		await websocket.send(json.dumps(data))
		# print("joined")
		#greeting = await websocket.recv()
		print("Joined")
		while True:
			msg = dict(topic="users:my_token", event="shout", payload={"body":"tworitdash"}, ref=None)
			await websocket.send(json.dumps(msg))
			call = await websocket.recv()
			print("< {}".format(call))




asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(hello())
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()

But I don’t understand the argument called ref here. What does that mean and what it should be? I am sending a None all the time. Thank you in advance ! And I will try to make the communication bidirectional for the python client.