[GNC] Price update not working

[David T.]

While it's always best to try to use the latest versions, Richard's error message doesn't sound like one that has to do with currency rate retrieval (which I believe is the major bug that F::Q1.53 is meant to fix). 

I would personally check to see what quote sources are selected for each security. One can quickly see the quote source for securities in the security list by adding that column to the view. 

Over the years, there's been quite a bit of turmoil in the price retrieval realm-- first, there was the discontinuation of prices by Yahoo!, which had everyone scramble to AlphaVantage; then there was the retrieval throttle that AlphaVantage imposed, causing people to change to Yahoo.json. Those seem like more likely points to examine before updating F::Q. 

⁣David T. ​

On Oct 8, 2022, 9:05 AM, at 9:05 AM, Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Richard
>
>If you have configured your GnuCash securities to retrieve their prices
>
>using AlphaVantage then you need to make sure that you have entered
>your 
>API Key in GnuCash preferences.
>
>Also, depending on the problem, it may help if you upgrade to a later 
>version of of Finance Quote:-
>
>https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/releases/tag/v1.53-rc.2
>https://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/B/BP/BPSCHUCK/Finance-Quote-1.52_02.tar.gz
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Regards
>
>Geoff
>=====
>
>
>On 8/10/2022 4:58 pm, R Losey wrote:
>> I just installed GnuCash on Ubuntu 22.04LTS (it is version 4.8 from
>the
>> Ubuntu Software area).
>> 
>> On a different Ubuntu, I had an older version running, and back then,
>price
>> updates were working. I managed to mess up that gnucash Linux
>install, so I
>> haven't been updating quotes - I've been using GnuCash on other
>operating
>> systems, and since it is a pain to get the quotes working on them, I
>> haven't bothered.
>> 
>> But now that I have a nice shiny Ubuntu, I have installed gnucash and
>> thought I'd attempt to update prices. I merely get :
>> 
>> "ERROR <gnc.scm> There was an unknown error while retrieving the
>price
>>> quotes."
>> 
>> 
>> I have Finance::Quote version 1.51 - it was installed along with
>GnuCash 4.8
>> 
>> Notes:
>> - The reason I mentioned running updates some time ago (pre version
>4.0, I
>> think) is that perhaps I need to do something in the securities
>editor? I
>> think that I no longer own some of securities tagged to get updates,
>but I
>> wouldn't think that would be a problem...
>> 
>> - I remember reading something about ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY - the debug
>text
>> prints it as empty (for what that's worth)
>> 
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