Great detective work Andreas!
And thanks for sharing your solution.
I hope the rest of your Gnucash voyage is plain sailing.
Regards
Geoff
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On 13/09/2020 9:27 pm, Andreas Vyrides wrote:
Dear Geoff and Ralls,
I would like to let you know that I have finally realised and fixed the
issue
Dear Geoff and Ralls,
I would like to let you know that I have finally realised and fixed the
issue. Since this is an open source application I will be describing all
steps that I have taken as well as describe my results from the
aforementioned 7 and a half points provided by Geoff. In case anyon
OK Andreas, so this isn't really a GnuCash issue per se, and we seem to
have narrowed down the problem to one of Perl / Finance::Quote /
Alphavantage / Your computer.
The next steps are to independently verify the connection from your
computer to Alphavantage.
Step 1: Can you access their AP
Dear Geoff
I apologise for the misunderstanding. Yes I did run set my alphavantage
key before running the commands. Please see the attached screenshot.
I will have a close look at the link provided. In case you have any
other ideas about why this is happening, please do not hesitate to
conta
Dear Andreas
Did you set your Alphavantage key as an environment variable before you
ran this test script? Try entering these commands first:
set ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=__Your_Actual_Key__
echo %ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY%
See attached screenshot.
See also this long thread on resolving a perl relat
Dear Mr Ralls,
It turn out you were able to correctly identify the issue for me since I
am not able to access the server. I am copying below the results after
running each command provided. I would be grateful if you could guide me
to resolve this issue.
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C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin
Dear Mr. Vyrides,
Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
Try testing Finance::Quote directly:
set ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=
perl c:\strawberry\cpan\build\Finance-Quote-1.49-0\Examples\currency-lookup.pl
GBP EUR
If that fails, try
perl c:\strawberry\cpan\build\Finance-Quote-1.49-0\Exampl
> On Sep 9, 2020, at 6:44 AM, Andreas Vyrides wrote:
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> I have been having some trouble retrieving currency quotes from Perl using
> Finance::Quote. I am only interested in currency exchange rates (have not
> attempted using anything else). I have been going through all steps
Dear Sir,
I have been having some trouble retrieving currency quotes from Perl
using Finance::Quote. I am only interested in currency exchange rates
(have not attempted using anything else). I have been going through all
steps of the wiki, such as running "Install online price Retrieval",
eve
