# Anki Beeminder sync add-on broken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Tech\ **Created:** [January 20, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438 "2015-01-20T08:47:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sanitizedlemur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@sanitizedlemur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/sanitizedlemur)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/1 "2015-01-20T08:47:11Z")
I recently downloaded the “[Beeminder Sync](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3491889895)” add-on for Anki. I have been happily using this add-on to update my Beeminder goal for Anki for the last week, but it suddenly is giving me an error message and failing to send data to Beeminder. I have emailed the add-on author, but I wanted to see if anyone here is also having issues. The error message I’m getting is as follows: > Syncing failed: > ‘[Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed’ ---
**Author:** ![sanitizedlemur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@sanitizedlemur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/sanitizedlemur)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/2 "2015-01-20T11:37:50Z")
The add-on works on my other computer… I wonder if using this on more than one computer is what’s causing me trouble. ---
**Author:** ![amesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@amesha](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/amesha)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/4 "2015-01-20T11:44:47Z")
It looks like it got a network error when it tried to update Beeminder. ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/5 "2015-01-21T12:23:22Z")
I use it too, and since my add-on folder is synced via Dropbox, I probably used it from multiple Macs, though not regularly and not recently. Is it still broken? If @amesha is right, it should be a transient problem. The add-on attempts\* to store its (very minimal) config in the Anki collection object, so should get sync’d between machines via Ankiweb, just like your decks and study progress. Part of that config is the timestamp of the last sync, presumably to avoid reporting the same datapoint multiple times. \* _‘attempts’_, because that’s currently broken for me; the collection doesn’t persist the updates, for reasons that I don’t yet understand. If config sync is working for you, you’ll see sensible comments in your Beeminder datapoints, like `"anki update (+27)"`. If it’s broken, then the +number will be a total instead of an increment. _Tagging for @muflax_ ---
**Author:** ![sanitizedlemur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@sanitizedlemur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/sanitizedlemur)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/6 "2015-01-22T02:10:48Z")
I suppose it is a transient problem… I just tried re-installing the add-on this morning and it worked for me. Strange. ---
**Author:** ![smokenflames](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@smokenflames](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/smokenflames)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 5:53am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/7 "2016-03-07T05:53:48Z")
I’m experiencing the same issue ---
**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/8 "2016-03-07T09:49:42Z")
I tried to investigate this, but I can’t find the addon on the anki site anymore. Does anyone have the code already downloaded? ---
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/9 "2016-03-08T16:53:45Z")
It’s wildly unclear and I didn’t see any announcement, but there are remnants on GitHub - [my own fork](https://github.com/pjjh/beeminder-anki), which now seems to be rooted on: - [lastobelus/beeminder-anki](https://github.com/lastobelus/beeminder-anki) instead of @muflax’s ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/10 "2016-03-10T17:03:57Z")
@smokenflames have you tried these? Are you getting any error messages? Are you having trouble installing these? ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anki-beeminder-sync-add-on-broken/438/11 "2016-03-10T18:20:26Z")
@smokenflames, I was able to get philip’s fork to work today. The instructions aren’t the most user friendly. For instance, if you are on OS X, the script goes into ~/Documents/Anki/addons. I spent 45 minutes debugging this script, and it was that I had mistyped my goal name in 🙂 Let me know if you can’t get this to work for you, and I can help you debug it.