My 25 quotes takes 10-15 seconds. Check to see if you are accidentally asking for every currency conversion rate in the book. I think alphavantage is the default (and only?) source for currency quotes. If you’re trying to get too many of those, you’ll still be running into the alphavantage difficulties. -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com
> On Aug 9, 2018, at 5:13 PM, samsurd2 <samsu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I tried this. Went into Tools > Security Editor and changed all items to > yahoo_JSON. In Tools > Price Editor I request quotes but no joy! All I get > is minute after minute of a spinner but no quotes. > > BTW, if I do the following for a single fund, I do get a correct quote. > > In a cmd.exe window: > > cd \Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\ > > echo (yahoo_json "DBEF") | perl gnc-fq-helper > > Do I need make some other change other than the one I described (like an > environmental variable) or am I not waiting long enough for quotes via > yahoo_JSON to be generated? Typically, how long is it taking for you to get > 25 quotes? > > > GnuCash - User mailing list wrote >> For US stocks/bonds/funds, I’d recommend using yahoo_JSON instead of >> alphavantage as the quote source. I haven’t had any trouble getting 25 >> quotes at a time that way. I think I still get 2 currency quotes via >> alphavantage, but that hasn’t been a problem either. >> >> My recollection is that someone reported yahoo_JSON as less than useful >> for some non-US stocks/funds. But I can’t remember any specifics. >> -- >> Dave Reiser > >> dbreiser@ > >> >>> On Aug 9, 2018, at 12:39 PM, samsurd2 < > >> samsurd2@ > >> > wrote: >>> >>> Had the same problem yesterday although my impatience didn't allow me to >>> let >>> things run for 4 hours. After a couple of hours, I shut it down and got >>> the >>> same error message. I'm using F::Q 1.47 and GNC 2.6.16 with Windows 10 on >>> an >>> HP laptop. FWIW, I am trying to retrieve about 35 quotes (US stock/bond >>> funds). Over the course of the last couple of months, I've been getting >>> fewer and fewer of them so I've had to resort to manual entry for the >>> others. > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > 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.