raw_input stops thread?

[dbfreak]

Hello, im going out of my mind trying to solve this, im new at python and trying to code an alarm system with a raspberry pi.

the alarm threads stops waiting for alarm2 threads raw_input, how can i solve this? Thanks in advance

code below:

import time
from threading import Thread
from pyrowl import Pyrowl
from datetime import datetime
from espeak import espeak
import piface.pfio as pfio
import subprocess
armed=0
p=None
pfio.init()
def main2(keys):
    global p
    global res
    global cmess
    global armed
    pkey = None
    
    p = Pyrowl()
    if os.path.isfile("myproviderkey"):
        pkey = open("myproviderkey",'r').readline().strip()
        p.providerkey(pkey)

    p.addkey(keys)
    
    
    
if __name__ == "__main2__":
    if os.path.isfile('myapikey'):
        keys = filter(None,
                      open("myapikey",'r').read().split("\n")
                      )
        
        main2(keys)




def alarm1():
    global armed
    print "Thread running"
    #time.sleep(5)
    while True:        
        if armed==1:
            #while True:
                #time.sleep(1)
                print "Alarm active"
                t2=datetime.now().strftime("%c")
                if pfio.digital_read(1)==1:
                    print "Alarm! Groventre door open %s"%t2
                continue
        else:
            print "inactive"
            time.sleep(1)
            continue
            

def alarm2():
    global armed
    x=0
    textarm='"10 sekunder"'
    cards=["0008669047","0001479506"]
    print "Starting up...Disarmed\n"
    #while True:
    print "Waiting for card:\n"
    data=raw_input()
    if data in cards :
                print "Valid card!"
                if armed==0:
                    #espeak.synth("Card ok, armed in ten seconds")
                    #subprocess.call('espeak -s 110 -vsv ' +textarm, shell=True)
                    time.sleep(5)
                    armed=1
                    time.sleep(2)
                    print "Armed\n"                                  
                    #continue
                if armed==1:
                    armed=0
                    time.sleep(2)
                    print "Disarmed\n"
                    
                    #t.join()                    
                    #continue
                    
                
def main():
    #armed=0
    global armed
    t=Thread(target=alarm1)
    t.setDaemon(True)
    t.start()
    t2=Thread(target=alarm2)
    t2.start()
    
    

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

[dwblas]

alarm2 only asks for input once and then exits. It might also be a problem with the use of global armed. I use multiprocessing , not threading, but the threads may not communicate so changing something in one thread is not recognized in the other. It retains the value first passed. See Signaling Between Threads on Doug Hellmann's site as a place to start.