Need to turn off LEDs on switch CBS110-5T-D, I cannot sleep

[berniebee]

Hello! I cannot sleep with my unmanaged switch CBS110-5T-D blinking all night.

My bedroom is too dark and the LEDs light up the wall no matter where I place it or what I do. Tape and other barriers fall off, fail to block everything, or boil the heat back to the device.
I have been switching the power off at night but that means no internet nor TV for the rest of the house after I go to bed or before I get up... The switch must stay in my room for some practical reasons.

Please, is there a way to turn the LEDs off peacefully, with no harm done?
Thank you for a good night's sleep...

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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@marce1000 wrote:

  - @berniebee    =>I have been switching the power off at night but that means no internet nor TV for the rest of the house after I go to bed or before I get up.
                             That's a pity but in many  modern houses the networks  are patched with a central panel  for instance
                             in the cellar where the network equipment can be placed too. Nice if the mice want to have
                             a dance party at night !...

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Laugh, but OP also wrote: "The switch must stay in my room for some practical reasons."

[Joseph W. Doherty]

How about you try sleeping wearing a sleep mask?

Years ago, I spent some months working an operations center 3rd shift.  For sleeping during the day, found a sleep mask much easier than replacing all my bedroom blinds with light proof variants.  Also, easier then opening and closing the blinds twice a day.  (My bedroom had 8 window blinds, behind curtains, so laugh, readjusting the blinds, again twice a day, I considered a PIA.)

Also, BTW, never wore a sleep mask before, but had never before worked 3rd shift.  The particular mask I chose was barely felt when worn, so getting used to it was, for me, easy.  I also no longer generally needed it once I stopped working 3rd shift, but I will sometimes still use it if I take a daytime nap.

[marce1000]

  - @Joseph W. Doherty                         >...How about you try sleeping wearing a sleep mask?
                                               Great : I kind of write the next sentences with a smile  :  the requirement  can be valid though.  I once had a post in the wireless group , asking by someone if it is possible to turn of led statuses and activity flickering in hospital
bedrooms for wireless access points. . This can  be done with (modern) Cisco access points.  Now usually for  strong patient care ,  besides your bed you will have  a stack of small devices in kind of a rack doing all sorts of things for you (monitors, regulators,  feeding medicine....).
     Now I suppose you could say to the nurse one night :  'can you power all of that down ,  because I need to sleep?!.
     Guess she could easily answer ;                           we can do that for you sir  but then then your heart will power down too!
                         (summer joke!)

  M.

[berniebee · Accepted solution]

Please disregard this thread; it is outdated.
I found the solution already back in 2023: I discarded my Cisco switch and bought a cheap switch from China with flat LEDs, then I was able to black-tape them.
Problem solved. Easy.
(Remember: The LEDs on my Cisco switch were rounded and I could not tape them. See photos.)
Close thread.