WOWZA stop pushing to Facebook

[Gaston_valle]

Hi,
i have Wowza 8.5 after few days back, i cant push to Facebook it was working well for a couple of months.
Now into Stream target the status to all of our facebook account is Error.
All of our Facebook accounts stop working also all other facebook accounts for other church stop YouTube still working fine.

PushPublishFacebookHandler.FBMonitor.run(Gaston FaceBook:obs/definst/obs) : com.wowza.wms.pushpublish.protocol.facebook.FacebookAuthorizationException|at com.wowza.wms.pushpublish.protocol.facebook.PushPublishFacebookUtil.a(PushPublishFacebookUtil.java:565)|at com.wowza.wms.pushpublish.protocol.facebook.PushPublishFacebookUtil.createLiveVideo(PushPublishFacebookUtil.java:471)|at com.wowza.wms.pushpublish.protocol.facebook.PushPublishFacebook.a(PushPublishFacebook.java:466)|at com.wowza.wms.pushpublish.protocol.facebook.PushPublishFacebook.f(PushPublishFacebook.java:15)|at com.wowza.wms.pushpublish.protocol.facebook.PushPublishFacebook$FBMonitor.run(PushPublishFacebook.java:186)|at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)|at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)|at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)|

[kv_pham]

see Facebook stream targets no longer working (nov 2020)
We’re a bunch of people having this issue.
I know three other people who do.

[Gaston_valle]

exactly it stop on nov 2020, but i dont find much info or alternative to avoid this issue.
Basically if Wowza not support push to facebook it is obsolete software.

[kv_pham]

see my own post; it points at a deprecated API call which invalidates the auth. Should be an easy fix

[Gaston_valle]

OK but do you find any alternative to push to facebook? any plugin or solution.
i need find any alternative for our church

[kv_pham]

a fix is in the way, just talked to a high level wowza person. Should be very soon.

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

Hi everyone, this issue was a result of FB deprecating a parameter that broke our stream target workflow and no not such an easy fix when so many variables and CDNs are involved, so thank you for your patience while the Engine team worked on this beta release.

The alert and workaround was posted on the wowza status alert page. If you have not subscribed to that, please do so you get an email when there is an issue that can affect you.

Just click on the top of the page in this link to subscribe.
https://wowza-streaming-engine.statuspage.io/

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Having said that, the beta version to fix this FB issue is NOW AVAILABLE.

Updating to Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.7b requires a custom packaged version of OpenJDK Java SE JRE 9.0.4. For more information, see Wowza Streaming Engine support for Java 9-12.

Please go HERE to to access the beta release.

This is an updater download. Click on Download

• Please note: The installer version is in final testing and will also be available soon.

[Rose_Power-Wowza_Com]

Also, If you need to update your Java for this beta release, you can can configure it for Java 9-12 here:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-update-to-java-9

The latest version of Engine does require a MINIMUM of Java 9, but it does support 9-12.