You can't change the quote source for currencies. Currency retrieval in Finance::Quote needs two symbols, one for each currency, while stock symbols require only one. Finance::Quote has the currency source hardwired: Formerly to Yahoo! now to Alphavantage.
I was able to get a currency price (EUR->USD) just now with no trouble and not much delay. Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 22, 2018, at 2:46 PM, Les <lellio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I forgot to add that the last update I received for currencies (all 9 of > them) was 02/13/2018. > > > On 02/22/2018 03:09 AM, ln.mailingli...@iinet.net.au wrote: >> Hi Richard, >> It's definitely alphavantage for currency - you can check the data URL >> early in the Quote.pm module. >> I'd agree with Adriano's assessment that the problem is server side. >> I did a test this morning where I repeatedly requested quotes from >> gnucash - the first four attempts sucessfully grabbed all of my stock >> values but failed on USD/AUD exchange rates, while the fifth test got >> everything. >> >> Cheers, >> Larry >> >> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:24:25 +0000 >> From: Richard Morris >> To: Adriano Baldi >> Cc: gnucash-user >> Subject: Re: Finance-Quote 1.47 Unable to retrieve Currency quotes >> Message-ID: >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> But I wonder - does GNUCash use alphavantage for currencies? >> I see this: >> "There are 3 types of sources of which the first - currency - is >> hardcoded >> and responsible to fetch ISO currencies. The other two can be selected >> in >> the security editor." >> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/apas01.html >> I'm still having the issue with currencies. How about you Adriano? >> And isn't it odd that gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR (for example) >> works? >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> 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 > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
