@tomchiverton:

OK, the bug about disabled profiles is confirmed, and I just fixed it.
If you have the time and you are willing to dig out the doc for bringing up a connection from within Python, I'm more than interested, thanks!

I will release the "sync" version of Erminig in a few hours. Please don't expect tons of updates/new features, since this is more to get everybody on the same version to facilitate the debugging.