[GNC] Gnucash Price updating

[ronjnk]

Hello David,

Thank you so much for taking time with me. I've always managed to get 
the quotes working in Gnucash even though Yahoo has thrown curve balls 
over the years. In this current version, I don't have 
Edit;Preferences;Online Quotes as an option. The only way is to go to 
Tools;Security Editor and scroll through a bunch of items. Yes, I did 
try many of the choices including Yahoo JSON. None worked.

I have not tried the alphadvantage since it seemed complicated. Please 
let me look at this further and see if I can install it on my version. 
I'm fighting with an older Gnucash version which isn't helping the 
cause. But as I mentioned initially, when I installed a newer version, 
my net asset wasn't close to what showed on my old version and I quickly 
reverted.

Thanks again David. If I have success or an additional question, I'll 
drop you a quick note. All the best,

Ron


On 04/11/2019 12:33 PM, David T. wrote:
> You don’t tell us; are you using Yahoo! as your price source? Yahoo! dismembered its quote source website a while back, and GnuCash users have had to seek out other sources. One source is AlphaVantage, while another is “Yahoo! as JSON”. If you set up your accounts to use one of these (preferably the latter), do you still get the errors?
>
> Note: you will need Finance::Quote verson 1.47; if you want to use AlphaVantage, there are instructions on the wiki; I believe that the FAQ has links to the instructions.
>
> David
>
>> On Apr 10, 2019, at 6:08 PM, ronjnk <ronjnk at xplornet.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello to all. I have GnuCash 2.6.15 installed on my MX18 and all works fine
>> except the Get quotes price updater. I get an error message "There was an
>> unknown error while retrieving the price quotes." I've toyed with this for
>> hours and installed everything I could find on the net to no avail.
>>
>> I can see the finance quote module load at start up but I cannot get a box
>> to show up to even change my data source. I am a user from long ago and the
>> program is awesome and the price updater has worked in years past. This is a
>> new computer and new OS install but I'v tried to confirm I have all modules
>> installed and as far as I know, everything is in place but won't work.
>>
>> I also upgraded to a much newer version and not only didn't price updater
>> not work, the new asset values was completely different from the older
>> version. I lost money. So I uninstalled and went back to this older version.
>> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I am manually updating about a
>> dozen quotes.
>>
>> Thank you! Ron
>>
>>
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