Alphavantage not working in gnucash 2.6.17

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 28, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Patrick Alken <alken at colorado.edu> wrote:
> 
> My OS is Ubuntu linux 17.10
> 
> and I installed F::Q via CPAN (gnc-fq-dump and gnc-fq-helper work ok from the commandline with alphavantage)
> 
> On 11/28/2017 07:50 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>>> On Nov 27, 2017, at 9:57 PM, Patrick Alken <alken at colorado.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Apologies if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find this exact
>>> issue in the recent mailings.
>>> 
>>> I have:
>>> 
>>> gnucash: 2.6.17
>>> 
>>> F::Q: 1.47
>>> 
>>> My F::Q works from the command line:
>>> 
>>> ----------
>>> 
>>> $ gnc-fq-dump alphavantage CSCO
>>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>>     symbol: CSCO                 <=== required
>>>       date: 11/27/2017           <=== recommended
>>>   currency: USD                  <=== required
>>>       last: 36.8700              <=\
>>>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>>>      price:                      <=/
>>>   timezone:                      <=== optional
>>> ----------
>>> 
>>> However inside gnucash price editor I still get the "unknown error when
>>> retrieving price quotes".
>>> 
>>> I have unchecked the "Get Online Quotes" flag from ALL of my stocks in
>>> the security editor. However the price editor still gives me the same
>>> error (unknown error).
>>> 
>>> gnucash --debug shows nothing related to quotes. I only get lines like this:
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> * 22:34:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=0/1
>>> * 22:34:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=0/100
>>> * 22:34:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=0/100
>>> * 22:34:53  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=0/100
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> Can anyone advise how to diagnose the issue?
>> What OS and how did you install F::Q?


Do you normally start GnuCash from the command line? If not, does quote retrieval work if you do?

Regards,
John Ralls