Tasks in CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE not being processed

I am trying to setup a dummy task in Celery that runs every 3 seconds but have had little success so far. This is the output I am getting:

I've set up celery as follows:

In settings.py:

from datetime import timedelta

BROKER_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'redis://localhost:6379'
CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ['application/json']
CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER = 'json'
CELERY_RESULT_SERIALIZER = 'json'
CELERY_TIMEZONE = 'UTC'
CELERY_IMPORTS = ("api.tasks")
CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE = {
    'add_job': {
        'task': 'add_job',
        'schedule': timedelta(seconds=3),
        'args': (16, 16)
    },
}
CELERY_TIMEZONE = 'UTC'

In celery.py:

from __future__ import absolute_import
import os
from celery import Celery
from django.conf import settings

# set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'blogpodapi.settings')
app = Celery(
    'blogpodapi',
)

# Using a string here means the worker will not have to
# pickle the object when using Windows.
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings')
app.autodiscover_tasks(lambda: settings.INSTALLED_APPS)


@app.task(bind=True)
def debug_task(self):
    print('Request: {0!r}'.format(self.request))

In tasks.py

from celery.task import task

@task(name='add_job')
def add_job(x, y):
    r = x + y
    print "task arguments: {x}, {y}".format(x=x, y=y)
    print "task result: {r}".format(r=r)
    return r

Have I done anything wrong in the way that I have set it up?

Okay the very basic mistake I see is that most of the settings you've mentioned in your settings.py need to go in celery.py

Specially the CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE

You are doing everything right, its just that your Celery is waiting for a task, which it is never receiving as it reads from celery.py and not from the settings.py. Hence nothing is happening.

See my celery.py and also the settings.py for a reference.

celery.py -> https://github.com/amyth/hammer/blob/master/config/celery.py

settings.py -> https://github.com/amyth/hammer/blob/master/config/settings.py

I have used crontab, coz I wanted to execute the task at a particular time of the day. So you don't need to worry about it. Yours is perfect for what you want to do.

Also from wherever whatever blog or tutorial you are following celery, check again what exactly are those settings required for and whether you need all all of them or not.