A new package vscp-python-send-heartbeat has been released in version 1.0.1. It contains two scripts
send-mqtt-heartbeat.py
Send a VSCP heartbeat to a configured MQTT broker.
send-vscp-heartbeat.py
Send a VSCP heartbeat event to a configured VSCP server.
Both scripts can be configure on the command line, via a configuration file and using credentials from .netrc.