I have mutiple profiles here too, I would like to be able to remove the simulator profile as I already have a vm set up as a set of simulators to emulate our real domes. Right now, if I start kstars, then open up the ekos stuff, it's always got the simulators selected, which I dont want to use, dont even want on the system here.

The other nitpick in this area, the button labelled 'start indi' actually doesn't start it, it connects to the remote. But once connected, it greys out the 'stop' until I disconnect the devices. I dont want to disconnect the devices, I want to leave them connected and running, there will be other programs using them. I would like to be able to 'disconnect from dome 1' then 'connect to dome2', WITHOUT interrupting all the devices in dome1.

Right now, the only way I can see to accomplish this is to close out kstars completely, without doing the 'disconnect devices' bit, then restart and connect to the other one.

Simulators cannot be removed because users will remove them by mistake (and that was reported and caused me a headache). The selected profile always defaulting to Simulators is actually a bug I fixed this morning, so wait until next PPA update or compile KStars.

I don't understand the 2nd bit, is dome 2 established already as a device but not 'connected'? you can disconnect any device and connect them in INDI control panel. But perhaps I'm missing something here.

I start kstars, I have a profile labelled 'dome 1' in ekos. When I click on the 'start indi' button, it connects to the computer named 'dome1', and that has an indi server running, with drivers for the EQ8, the ST10, focusser, the dome itself etc. Once I have hit the 'start indi' button (which I believe should be 'connect' not start, it's been running for a long time already on the remote computer), then the converse, the 'stop' to make it disconnect from the indiserver in dome1 is greyed out until I hit the 'disconnect devices', which then sends a 'connect=off' to all the devices out there, which I do NOT want, there are still other programs connected and running against those devices.

Now I want to look at what is in the other observatory. I cant 'disconnect' from the indi server in 'dome1' without causing all the devices to be disconnected from the server, before I can select the other profile and connect to 'dome2', which is a completely different computer, running a whole different set of devices, in a physically separate dome.

I think we should be able to disconnect from one remote indi server, and connect to another, WITHOUT shutting everything down on the first one.

I haven't tried it, but have you tried adding the 2nd dome IP in device manager? If you click connect there you can probably get them in Ekos, but I'm not sure.

Was that backtrace good enough?

I noticed that the simulator profile became uneditable. My main issue with it is it was not restored to the profile original configuration. There are some changes I made in it that got baked in.

SQLite Editor to the rescue! Just edit ~/.local/share/kstars/userdb.sqlite in any SQLLite editor.