[GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-04-30 Thread ml enquirer
Hi, I have GnuCash 2.6.21 for Mac (running 10.13.4). I have set up Finance::Quote properly, with my alphavantage key. When I press "Get quotes" in the Price Editor, I expect updates for CHF, EUR and several stock quotes. The stock quotes come back fine each time, but the two currency updates fail

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-04-30 Thread ml enquirer
Sorry, that should have read GnuCash 3.1... D On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:59 PM, ml enquirer wrote: > Hi, > > I have GnuCash 2.6.21 for Mac (running 10.13.4). I have set up > Finance::Quote properly, with my alphavantage key. When I press "Get > quotes" in the Price Editor, I expect updates for C

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-04-30 Thread ml enquirer
I've tried making a copy of the account and deleting hundreds (or thousands) of transactions. This didn't make much difference (though just now one of the two currency requests seemed to succeed). Immediately afterwards, though, the same "Get Quotes" reverted to its standard error message. Is Alph

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-04-30 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 30, 2018, at 1:05 PM, ml enquirer wrote: > > Sorry, that should have read GnuCash 3.1... > > D > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:59 PM, ml enquirer > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have GnuCash 2.6.21 for Mac (running 10.13.4). I have set up >> Finance::Quote properly, with my alphavantage k

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-04-30 Thread ml enquirer
Thanks - it's reassuring to know it's not just me... all the best, On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:18 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Apr 30, 2018, at 1:05 PM, ml enquirer > wrote: > > > > Sorry, that should have read GnuCash 3.1... > > > > D > > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:59 PM, ml enquirer >

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-04-30 Thread David Carlson
Not sure what is happening at my house(wrt GnuCash). Release 2.6.19 with finance-quote 1.47 in Windows was able to retrieve the US securities in my portfolio via AlphaVantage earlier this year but now it cannot retrieve anything. Release 2.6.17 (backport?) in Ubuntu 16.04 with finance::quote 1.3

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-04-30 Thread David Carlson
I have too many VMs. It was a different VM that has Ubuntu 16.04 and GnuCash release 2.6.12 with Finance::Quote 1.47 that is currently the only instance here that can download security prices for US stocks through AlpaVantage. That instance cannot retrieve any of the 5 currencies that I like to f

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-05-09 Thread shaq32
Hi, I had the same problem and fund the solution for it. 1) go this website https://www.alphavantage.co chose "Get your free API Key today" register and get an Alpha Vantage API Key. Copy the key and go to step no. 2 2) In Gnucash menu go to Preferences -> Online Quotes paste the API key

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-05-19 Thread ml enquirer
Hi all, @shaq32: thanks for the idea, but no, this is not the problem, I already have a valid API key (that's a very old FAQ...) Any luck debugging, John? Anything I can do to provide more useful info? Best regards, On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:31 PM, shaq32 wrote: > Hi, > > I had the same proble

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-05-19 Thread John Ralls
> On May 19, 2018, at 9:10 AM, ml enquirer wrote: > > Hi all, > > @shaq32: thanks for the idea, but no, this is not the problem, I already > have a valid API key (that's a very old FAQ...) > > Any luck debugging, John? Anything I can do to provide more useful info? Well, I just tried again a

Re: [GNC] Unable to retrieve currency quotes

2018-05-20 Thread ml enquirer
Hi John, Thanks. Executing that command gives: ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY= /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump currency "CHF" "USD" 1 CHF = 1.00156244 USD so all looks good on the alphavantage side. Thanks for the bug-link. Indeed, I have a number of securities (but no other