code: def sendStatusPing(self):
          
          data = parse.urlencode({"key": self.key, "version": self.version}).encode()
          req = request.Request("https://redunda.sobotics.org/status.json", data)
  
          response = request.urlopen(req)
  
          jsonReturned = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
  
          self.location = jsonReturned["location"]
          self.shouldStandby = jsonReturned["should_standby"]
          self.eventCount = jsonReturned["event_count"]
docs: Sends a status ping to Redunda with the instance key specified while constructing the object.