[GNC] ASX Online quotes problem

[Richard Spinney]

Hi Geoff,

Yes, I see, that would explain the behaviour.

I followed your advice and upgraded with that script to v 1.51.
Unfortunately, that hasn't solved the issue, and the version reported in
Help->About in Gnucash remains at 1.49, aligning with your suggestion that
two versions are acting independently here.

I think I might be waiting for someone who is familiar with how Gnucash
plays in Linux to weigh in on how to manage the "GUI version".

Thanks for your help,

R.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 6:43 PM Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard
>
> Yes, that is confusing.  It is possible that this discrepancy in
> behaviour may be due to you having two instances of Perl installed - the
> later one is seen by your command line scripts and the earlier (out of
> date) one is seen by your GnuCash GUI.  I make this suggestion as I
> recall seeing other GnuCash problems being reported due to this.  I am
> mainly a Windows user so I can't really help you to trouble shoot.
>
> Anyway, to upgrade, you can try the "gnc-fq-update" Perl script, which
> should get the latest version (1.51) from CPAN:
> https://metacpan.org/pod/Finance::Quote
>
> Finally, I have attached a screenshot of my setup to retrieve prices for
> ASX securities.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff
> =====
>
> On 30/06/2022 6:26 pm, Richard Spinney wrote:
> > Hi Geoff,
> >
> > Thanks for this.
> >
> > I am little bit confused though, the command line perl scripts I am
> > using with the ASX as a source work fine. But moreover, they work when I
> > use *different* sources (e.g. yahoo as JSON), but then they don't work
> > in gnucash itself - I.e. the issue is there when I specifically avoid
> > the ASX as a source. Or have I missed something?
> >
> > If I do have to update that module do you have any links or similar you
> > could point me to?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > R.
> >
> > On Thu, 30 June 2022, 18:21 Geoff, <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com
> > <mailto:cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Richard
> >
> >     The ASX did a major web upgrade back in 2020 that broke Version 1.49
> of
> >     Finance::Quote.  If you want to use the ASX as your data source for
> >     Australian listed securities then you will need to upgrade that Perl
> >     module.
> >
> >
> >     Regards
> >
> >     Geoff
> >     =====
> >
> >     On 30/06/2022 5:44 pm, Richard Spinney wrote:
> >      > Hi All,
> >      >
> >      > I'm having some trouble fetching online quotes for Australian
> >     stocks in
> >      > Gnucash.
> >      >
> >      > My versions are:
> >      >
> >      > Gnucash Version: 4.11
> >      > Build ID: Flathub 4.11
> >      > Finance::Quote: 1.49
> >      >
> >      > running on Linux.
> >      >
> >      > Every other security price fetch seems to work fine. For
> >     instance, this
> >      > works for US stocks when input into the security editor:
> >      >
> >      > Symbol: AAPL
> >      > Source: alphavantage
> >      >
> >      > as do currency quotes.
> >      >
> >      > However, I get the following error message:
> >      >
> >      > "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items ASX:VGS ..."
> >      >
> >      > where ASX is just my "type" categorisation", if I try any ASX
> >     stock/etf
> >      > (here using VGS as an example) with any permutation of
> >      >
> >      > Symbol: VGS, VGS.AX <http://VGS.AX>, ASX:VGS, ASX.VGS
> >      > Source: Alphavantage US, Australian Stock Exchange AU,Yahoo as
> JSON
> >      >
> >      > For reference, I have got the underlying command line scripts
> >     working and I
> >      > *can* get Australian quotes using them (in addition to currency
> >     and US
> >      > stock quotes that *do* work in Gnucash). For instance the
> following
> >      > commands all return sensible quotes
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > perl gnc-fq-dump -v asx vgs
> >      > perl gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_json VGS.ax
> >      > perl gnc-fq-dump -v australia vgs
> >      >
> >      > I'm unclear if this is because of something I am doing wrong with
> the
> >      > details in the security editor or if there is something else I'm
> >     missing.
> >      >
> >      > Thanks in advance,
> >      >
> >      > R.
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