Yes gnucash was closed, I had admin rights, and I checked the spelling. I believe thats fine because it works in gnucash now.
On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 6:43 PM David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > Elias, > > Have you rechecked your gnucash environment file for spelling, leading > comment characters, etc? > > You did have admin rights when you edited it? > > Did you quit gnucash before editing it? > > David C > > On Jan 1, 2018 4:56 PM, "Elias K Gardner" <zork...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok took me awhile to realize I needed to be in /usr/bin and run 'export > ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=##############' first. Then it appears 'perl > gnc-fq-dump -v alphavantage AMZN' works returning this: > "Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses: > symbol: AMZN <=== required > date: 12/29/2017 <=== recommended > currency: USD <=== required > last: 1169.4700 <=\ > nav: <=== one of these > price: <=/ > timezone: <=== optional > > All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock AMZN > > stock field value > ----- ----- ----- > AMZN close: 1169.4700 > AMZN currency: USD > AMZN currency_set_by_fq: 1 > AMZN date: 12/29/2017 > AMZN high: 1184.0000 > AMZN isodate: 2017-12-29 > AMZN last: 1169.4700 > AMZN low: 1167.5000 > AMZN method: alphavantage > AMZN open: 1182.3500 > AMZN success: 1 > AMZN symbol: AMZN > AMZN volume: 2625283" > > So does this mean that gnucash is somehow not able to access my > alphavantage API key? > > > On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 4:24 PM Fross, Michael <mich...@fross.org> wrote: > >> Hi Elias, >> >> Take GNUCash out of the equation. If you run : >> >> perl gnc-fq-dump -v alphavantage AMZN >> >> That should tell you if F:Q can get to alphavantage. >> >> I'm not sure if that will be in your path so you might have to find >> gnc-fq-dump. >> >> If that works or not it will help to narrow it down. >> >> Michael >> >> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:34 PM, Elias K Gardner <zork...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Ah so it is. When I set it to "Yahoo as json" and get quotes it says >>> unable to retrieve quotes. Definitely no Alphavantage source. Version 1.47 >>> is the newest version of Finance:Quote. I've tried to update it separately >>> per the wiki and it says I have the newest version. >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 2:13 PM David Carlson < >>> david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I think Yahoo_json is under the Single source tab in the get quotes >>>> section of the security editor. In GnuCash 2.6.18 Windows Alpha Vantage is >>>> the second choice under Other. I have not investigated updating >>>> Finance:Quote in Linux yet, but as is mentioned in the wiki, it probably >>>> needs to be updated separately from GnuCash. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Elias K Gardner <zork...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks Michael, yahoo_json does not show up in my unknown sources >>>>> either. I >>>>> wonder if that is related to my problem. >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:17 PM Fross, Michael <mich...@fross.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > While this doesn't answer your question, I switched to Alphavantage >>>>> > without issue, but then switched to yahoo_json as it's much faster. >>>>> I >>>>> > assume it will go away at some point and I'll have to switch back to >>>>> > Alphavantage. >>>>> > >>>>> > I'm currently running on Windows and it's available in unknown >>>>> sources so >>>>> > I'm not much help there. >>>>> > >>>>> > Michael >>>>> > >>>>> > On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Elias K Gardner <zork...@gmail.com> >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> >> Hey there. I've followed the directions on the wiki for switching my >>>>> >> online >>>>> >> quotes from Yahoo! to Alphavantage but in the security editor >>>>> alphavantage >>>>> >> does not show up under unknown sources. What have I done wrong? >>>>> >> >>>>> >> I got an Alphavantage API key and I added >>>>> >> ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=############## >>>>> >> (with the actual key instead of #s) to my environment file >>>>> >> (/etc/gnucash/environment). >>>>> >> This is gnucash 2.6.17 with finance::quote 1.47 on ubuntu 17.10. >>>>> >> >>>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>>> >> gnucash-user mailing list >>>>> >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>>>> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>>>> >> ----- >>>>> >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>>>> >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>>>> >> >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> gnucash-user mailing list >>>>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>>>> ----- >>>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.