# Wowza camera reconection
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-camera-reconection/44566
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-camera-reconection/44566 "2015-01-27T10:13:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@shrinivas\_shastri](https://community.wowza.com/u/shrinivas_shastri)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-camera-reconection/44566/1 "2015-01-27T10:13:14Z")
Hi,
I have added camera stream to “Startup Streams”. When I restarted Wowza couple of times, it did reconnect to the camera. But recently I found it is Waiting for stream and no video for long time. When I did “Connect to the stream” in “Stream Files”, the stream was back online. All the properties have default values in Stream File -\> Properties. Does Wowza keeps retrying to connect indefinitely after streams steam/connection breaks? Do I need to experiment with some values?
Thanks,
Shrini
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### Author:  [@Mac\_Hill](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mac_Hill)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 11:00am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-camera-reconection/44566/2 "2015-01-27T11:00:28Z")
Hello,
Can you examine your StartupStreams.xml (found in /conf) and double check you are referencing a stream file for that application? Also if possible check the wowzastreamingengine\_access.log at the same time to see if there is anything of interest there.
If you’re still having difficulties, create a ticket referencing this post to support@wowza.com and someone will look at it very quickly for you.
Include zipped up copies of
[install-path]/conf
[install-path]/logs
[install-path]/manager
and copies of the stream files that you are using.
Thanks,
Mac