Late night implementation of Tornado + Redis PubSub + Websockets. It's late, the code is messy, but it should demonstrate how the general construct works. Feel free to try it on your own after studying it.

gistfile1.py

import json
import os
import tornado.httpserver
import tornado.web
import tornado.websocket
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.gen
import tornadoredis


class RepiServer(object):
    def __init__(self, r, name='master', namespace='repi:', info_channel='cluster', port=8888):
        self.redis = r
        self.name = name
        self.namespace = namespace
        self.info_channel = info_channel
        self.port = port


    def subscribe(self, channel):
        channel = self._prefixChannel(channel)
        self.redis.subscribe(channel)


    def unsubscribe(self, channel):
        channel = self._prefixChannel(channel)
        self.redis.unsubscribe(channel)


    def publish(self, command, data=None, channel=None):
        if channel:
            channel = self._prefixChannel(channel)
        else:
            channel = self._prefixChannel(self.info_channel)

        message = {
            'client': self.name,
            'command': command,
            'data': data
        }
        json_message = json.dumps(message)
        self.redis.publish(channel, json_message, lambda x: None)


    def run(self):
        application = tornado.web.Application([
            (r'/', MainHandler, dict(repi=self)),
            (r'/ws', RepiConnection, dict(repi=self))
        ])
        http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(application)
        http_server.listen(self.port)
        tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()


    def _prefixChannel(self, channel):
        return '{}{}'.format(self.namespace, channel)



class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def initialize(self, repi, *args, **kwargs):
        self.repi = repi
        super(MainHandler, self).initialize(*args, **kwargs)


    def get(self):
        template_kwargs = {
            'title': 'RePi Server',
            'info_channel': self.repi.info_channel
        }
        self.render(os.path.join('view', 'index.html'), **template_kwargs)




class RepiConnection(tornado.websocket.WebSocketHandler):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(RepiConnection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.listen()


    def initialize(self, repi, *args, **kwargs):
        self.repi = repi
        self.channel = self.repi._prefixChannel(self.repi.info_channel)
        super(RepiConnection, self).initialize(*args, **kwargs)


    @tornado.gen.engine
    def listen(self):
        self.redis = tornadoredis.Client()
        self.redis.connect()
        channel = self.repi._prefixChannel(self.repi.info_channel)
        yield tornado.gen.Task(self.redis.subscribe, channel)
        self.redis.listen(self.on_redis_message)


    def on_websocket_message(self, json_message):
        # Decode JSON
        try:
            message = json.loads(json_message)
        except ValueError, err:
            print 'Invalid JSON.'
            return

        # Sanity check
        if not {'channel', 'command', 'data'}.issubset(message):
            print 'Invalid protocol.'
            return

        self.repi.publish(message['command'])#, data=message['data'], channel=message['channel'])

    on_message = on_websocket_message


    def on_redis_message(self, message):
        channel = message.channel
        if message.kind == 'message':
            # Decode JSON
            json_message = str(message.body)
            try:
                message = json.loads(json_message)
            except ValueError, err:
                print 'Invalid JSON.'
                return

            # Sanity check
            if not {'client', 'command', 'data'}.issubset(message):
                print 'Invalid protocol.'
                return

            # Write to WebSocket
            self.write_message(json_message)
        elif message.kind == 'disconnect':
            self.close()


    def on_close(self):
        if self.redis.subscribed:
            self.redis.unsubscribe('test_channel')
            self.redis.disconnect()


r = tornadoredis.Client()
repi_server = RepiServer(r)
repi_server.run()