Get the connection error code from live stream

Wowza Developer Dojo
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Hi,

I’m new to Wowza and I’ve set up a live streaming (Wirecast). During the live streaming, I would like to know if the user stop the stream normally or there’s any connection error between the streaming machine and the wowza server so that I can update a status that stored in DB. Is there any server API that I can get the connection fail error code?

I know that if it’s the connection error, wowza server will try to ping the streaming machine and if timeout, it’ll disconnect the streaming.

Thanks!

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With a stream that is being "pushed from Wirecast, Wowza will just wait indefinitely for the stream to continue.

The StreamTimeout/reconnect behavior you are referring to is with streams that are “pulled”, i.e., MediaCaster streams, e.g., an rtsp stream from an IP camera or a shoutcast stream.

You can use this StreamWatchdog example to see if the stream is active, by checking packets:

http://community.wowza.com/t/-/243

Richard

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But I can see the ping time out message from wowza server console when I manually disconnect the network of the machine where wirecast is live broadcasting.

Here’s the wowza console message:

INFO server comment - client connectionClosed [1148934568] pingtimeout

WARN server comment - LiveReceiver.resetSortBuffer[myStream]: diff:33629:2000 sortRTStart:1276550436432 sortTCStart:26850

INFO stream unpublish myStream -

INFO server comment - onStreamDestroy: 1

INFO stream destroy myStream -

INFO session disconnect 1148934568 -

INFO server comment - onDisconnect: 1148934568

INFO application app-stop definst live/definst

INFO server comment - onAppStop: live/definst

I need to know if there’s any API like “isPingTimeout()”. If the stream is stopped by the user normally, the first line in the message won’t appear.

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You can use the IMediaStreamActionNotify2 interface to see normal events, onPublish and onUnPublish are event handlers for publishing client.

http://community.wowza.com/t/-/242

When I disable my internet connection from a computer on my lan that is publishing to a Wowza app on another computer, the onUnPublish event does not fire.

Richard