I'm running Kubuntu 8.10, and began by installing KMyMoney 0.9.2 from the ubuntu repositories. Having setup a number of stocks I looked at implementing online price updates. Coming from gnucash I installed Finance::Quote, and succeeded in getting online quotes for about three days (15/3/09 - 17/3/09). Since then I get errors every time I try. I should say that I'm in Australia, and I knew that Finance::Quote picks up information from the Australian Stock Exchange. I now have KMM 0.9.3 from the PPA repository, with no better success. I thought I'd try switching to Yahoo prices, but now I find that I am unable to edit Investment Account information - when I right-click on an investment and choose Edit Investment the pop-up menu is replaced by a blank box, and nothing else happens. I've done this successfully before - I downgraded back to 0.9.2, with no better success.

I've been having some difficulty with that too. My problem is with stocks that have periods in the symbol name which is common for Trusts here in Canada. For example, CUF.UN. I've tried all the online quote providers in KMyMoney and all of them return errors. Going directly to their sites and entering the symbol works.

I have no problem obtaining prices - I've got an account with an online broker. Manually updating prices in KMM is such a pain, though. You have to wade through all these foreign currencies that you aren't interested in looking for your stocks, and then it never remembers where you are in the list when you save a new quote, but takes you back to the top of the list!

Can you post the error you are getting? I use finance::Quote too and it works ok, but not for an Australian stock, though.

BTW, the Ubuntu repositories have version 0.9-2, which is the same as 0.9.0. That is about a year old.

Hei Ku wrote:Can you post the error you are getting? I use finance::Quote too and it works ok, but not for an Australian stock, though.

I get a dialog box with the following text:

Failed to retrieve a quote for ANZ from Finance::Quote asx. Press No to remove the online price source from this security permanently, Yes to continue updating this security during future price updates or Cancel to stop the current update operation.

When the thing was working it had no problem with Australian stocks - it includes ASX and Yahoo Australian stock sources.

Hei Ku wrote:BTW, the Ubuntu repositories have version 0.9-2, which is the same as 0.9.0. That is about a year old.

I've now reinstalled 0.9.3, which appears to have a number of improvements, but doesn't fix the online quote problem for me.

Did you try to get the online quotes in Gnucash? Is it still working there?

Hei Ku wrote:Did you try to get the online quotes in Gnucash? Is it still working there?

The short answer is no it isn't. I had to set up gnucash on the linux machine I'm currently using to find out - in recent months 've been using gnucash on Windows, and I've never got online quotes to work there at all, but it always previously worked on linux. So it seems likely that the problem is with the finance::quote setup on this machine, or with the server the quotes are coming from...

Thanks for suggesting that. I'll look into it further in the morning.

The problem seems to be with the ASX quote source. Using gnc-quote-dump I was able to get a valid quote by typing "gnc-quote-dump australia ANZ" (where "ANZ" is the ASX symbol for ANZ Bank), but when I tried "gnc-quote-dump ASX ANZ" (I tried lower case asx too) I got an invalid result. Going back into gnucash I edited the stock quote source for ANZ and replaced "ASX" with "Yahoo Australia". I was then able to get an online quote for ANZ. Then I fired up KMyMoney and loaded a KMY file in which I hadn't so far defined any investments. In that I was able to add and edit an investment record and get a quote for it using Yahoo Australia as the source. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to edit an existing investment record that has ASX defined as the quote source within KMyMoney - attempting to do so hangs the program. Is there any method of editing online quote sources for KMyMoney outside of the program? I couldn't find a conf file or anything similar. As far as I can see my only other option is to re-enter all my portfolio details, and that's likely to cause me reconciliation problems.

What do you mean it hangs the program? Can you describe it in more detail what you are doing when that happens?

dajashby wrote:Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to edit an existing investment record that has ASX defined as the quote source within KMyMoney - attempting to do so hangs the program. Is there any method of editing online quote sources for KMyMoney outside of the program? I couldn't find a conf file or anything similar. As far as I can see my only other option is to re-enter all my portfolio details, and that's likely to cause me reconciliation problems.

Strange. I just tried to duplicate this on CVS HEAD (a few more changes than 0.9.3) and did not get it to hang. One thing I noticed is, that the selection combo box is emptied as soon as I select the Finance::Quote checkbox. Is that intended behavior? I don't know, but OTOH I don't have too much experience of the online quote code base and it's functionality. All I know, it should not hang.

The various online quote source parameters are stored in ~/.kde/share/config/kmymoney2rc. Open it using your favorite text editor and search for Online-Quote-Source and you'll find a section for each one defined.

Before you re-enter all your data, can you provide us with an anonymized version of your file (and maybe a copy of your kmymoney2rc file as well) so that we can try to reproduce the problem? Instructions on how to gain an anonymized version of the file can be found in the KMyMoney online manual. Contact me via PM and supply me with your e-mail address so that I can give you instructions where to send those files to.

Hei Ku wrote:What do you mean it hangs the program? Can you describe it in more detail what you are doing when that happens?

To edit an investment you right click on an investment within your Brokerage Account and select Edit Investment. When I do that in my super fund kmy file the pop up menu goes blank but doesn't disappear, and clicking on anything else in the program gets no response. Clicking on the X button a couple of times brings up a dialog telling me that the program isn't responding and offering to kill it. I figure that there's some sort of endless loop going on, or maybe the program has leaped off to an area of memory it doesn't own. I can successfully edit an investment in at least one other KMY file on the same PC. I set this investment up to use the Yahoo Australia source, not the ASX one. I suppose it's possible that there could be some sort of data corruption in my super fund file, but I suspect that the program is having a problem with the quote source. Sorry about the delay in responding, but I didn't get any email message that I had received a reply. I thoughbt I was subscribed to this thread, but it must be necessary to renew the subscription every time you post.

ipwizard wrote:Strange. I just tried to duplicate this on CVS HEAD (a few more changes than 0.9.3) and did not get it to hang. One thing I noticed is, that the selection combo box is emptied as soon as I select the Finance::Quote checkbox. Is that intended behavior? I don't know, but OTOH I don't have too much experience of the online quote code base and it's functionality. All I know, it should not hang.

If I select the Finance::Quote checkbox the selection combo is repopulated with Finance::Quote sources. Do you have Finance::Quote installed?

ipwizard wrote:The various online quote source parameters are stored in ~/.kde/share/config/kmymoney2rc. Open it using your favorite text editor and search for Online-Quote-Source and you'll find a section for each one defined.

Thanks for pointing that out. I looked in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmymoney, but that folder was empty. The list of sources in there is only the standard KMY sources, though, not the Finance::Quote ones.

ipwizard wrote:Before you re-enter all your data, can you provide us with an anonymized version of your file (and maybe a copy of your kmymoney2rc file as well) so that we can try to reproduce the problem? Instructions on how to gain an anonymized version of the file can be found in the KMyMoney online manual. Contact me via PM and supply me with your e-mail address so that I can give you instructions where to send those files to.

How can I say this - I tried the Edit Investment command again just now, and it worked. I don't know what changed over the weekend, but I have now been able to change my online quote source on all my super fund investments, and have succeeded in getting prices. Thanks for your interest guys. The ASX quote source is still failing, but I guess that's not your problem...

It does hang here. Thomas, have you tried setting up an investment with finance::quote, saved, and then tried to edit it?

It only happens with the stock I have set to use Finance::Quote. Also, do you have Finance::quote installed?

The support for new versions of AqBanking and libofx, is highly flexible and reliable.

I just read this thread. For the hanging problem, see bug 238454.