HowTo run multiple RMS cameras from a single host

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This is a very much WIP  -

From a default RMS install –
Open a terminal

$: ‘sudo pip3 install virtualenv-clone’
$: virtualenv-clone vRMS <new env-name>


Note: the new env directory must reside at the same directory level as your base RMS install, e.g. 
If by default you have the initial RMS installed to 
~/source/RMS
then create a new directory for the 2nd one as 
mkdir ~/source-2

$: cp -r source <source_new-env-name>
$: activate <new env-name>/bin/activate
$: cd source-<source-new-name>/RMS

Then edit 
.config to reflect -
Location
2nd camera details, ip address etc 
RMS_data store directory
..and depending on your data directory if as I do, you use a separate directory on a common fileshare for storage then you might want 
to adjust the max-free amount to reflect the potential doubling of space free required for a successful nights capture 
(@25fps & 2 cameras I set this to 40Gb)

You'll also need to edit any of the 2nd env's scripts you need to use e.g.
Scripts/RMS_StartCapture.sh  -
to reflect new virtual env as opposed to the default (vRMS) and launch the script as follows to background it and detach if you wish to
run the capture process headless -

nohup ~/source-2/RMS/Scripts/RMS_StartCapture.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 &