[GNC] Price Editor Problems

[Eric Coates]

My apologies.

I am going to swear!

The message below is not the one I sent; lots of asterixes have been 
added, to get the correct message remove all of them (and if you want to 
see the original, enbolden the text they delineate)

I was trying to make the text more readable by emphasising the important 
bits - I'm going to have to rethink how that's possible.

Eric

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On 11/05/2019 11:12, Eric Coates wrote:
> Hi (again!)
>
> OK, if you had AlphaVantage working at some time you'll have an 
> AlphAvantage API key.
>
> (In GnuCash 3.5 you can confirm this by going through*Edit > 
> Preferences > Online Quotes *and confirming that the key appears there)
>
> It sounds as if you've hit the problem with AlphaVantage throttling 
> the queries; the way to overcome this is to modify the file 
> *AlphaVantage.pm.* I had problems finding the correct file to modify 
> but I think in Ubuntu 18.04 it is 
> at*/usr/local/share/perl/5.22.1/Finance/Quote*; in 19.04 it's at 
> *usr/share/perl5/Finance/Quote/AlphaVantage.pm*. Or, to be more exact, 
> that's where it was/is on my system; if it's not there a hint (given 
> by John Ralls a while ago) is to look in the */etc/share* directory 
> and look in folders called perl or perl5.
>
> Having found the file it needs to be modified to add in a delay that 
> overcomes the throttling problem. Very close to the end of the file 
> there is a line
>
> *select(undef, undef, undef, .7) if ($quantity);*
>
> (although, to be honest, I can't swear that the final semi-colon 
> appears) that needs to be modified to read
>
> *select(undef, undef, undef, .7) if ($quantity); sleep(15);*
>
> (the modified line does need the semi-colon).
>
> It took me some time to gather the courage to go in and modify a 
> "system" file; if you share my discomfort I can provide some guidance 
> on how to do it.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Eric
> **
>
>
> On 11/05/2019 02:18, DaveW wrote:
>> Where, please, can I get wo-to-go instructions to get my stock Price
>> Editor (Re)working??
>>
>> I am running Ubuntu 18.04.  GNC ver 3.5.  My stock is all on the ASX
>> (Australia).  Things worked wonderfully until the Yahoo demise and
>> then for a while I was able to use Alphvantage but that stopped too.
>>
>> I have tried all sorts of fixes randomly and fear I have completely
>> confused GNC in the process.
>>
>> I would greatly appreciate some step by step assistance.
>>
>> Dave W
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