Sends a status ping to Redunda with the instance key specified while constructing the object.

def sendStatusPing(self):
        """
        Sends a status ping to Redunda with the instance key specified while constructing the object.
        """
        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"]