We recommend that you do NOT use the house alarm. Formosa Gardens is a gated community with a very low crime rate and you should feel very safe in this neighborhood. The alarm really serves as a home automation hub, and is sometimes used if the house sits empty for several weeks during the off-season, but mostly is just there to help us manage the air conditioning and door locks. We do not use it when we stay at the house.
If you do choose to arm the alarm, it will require a code to disarm it / disable the alarm going off. The code is on the sticker on the alarm panel. Note that the alarm will not arm if the doors leading to the garage are open, and it will alert (very loudly) if any of the doors in the home are opened once it is armed.
The alarm is NOT monitored and will not call out to the police, security services or EMS. It only makes noise.
This Alarm panel has NOTHING to do with the pool alarm. The doors that lead to the pool patio area are required by Florida law to have a pool alarm and cannot be disabled. They are a separate system and are not affected by the home security panel.