Subscribe to redis channel (pubsub) using lettuce reactive commands

I am using the io.lettuce.core library and I am having trouble subscribing to a channel using the RedisPubSubReactiveCommands interface.

I have a StatefulRedisPubSubConnection and an active redis cluster which I am attempting to subscribe to.

connection.sync().subscribe("channel") works fine, as does connection.async().subscribe("channel"). However, when I use the reactive 'hot observable' interface provided by lettuce like so:

connection.reactive().subscribe(channels).subscribe();
connection.reactive().observeChannels().doOnNext(this::notifyObservers).subscribe();

It will not register as a subscription action on redis. I feel like I'm following the example given in the lettuce documentation closely.

I'm programming for an interface that accepts a hot Flux Observable and I'm getting close to wrapping the sync or async connection interfaces with my own reactive wrapper and throwing them in the pipe. What am I doing wrong here?