A while ago I got a Synology and I noticed that my baby is attracted by its blue LED button in particular and the blinking lights, resulting in pushing the power button multiple times etc.... Yes, I know, I should put the box out of his reach, and I thought I did...
Then, i looked on the internet if there's any way to turn some of the lights off (ideally the HDD lights) and I found a wiki page. The idea is that you need a command line shell to the Synology box and you and do all kind of funny things with
echo <character> >/dev/ttyS1
From the page:
Char | Hex | Description | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | 0x30 | Power Button | |
1 | 0x31 | Power off | |
2 | 0x32 | Shorter Beep-Sound | |
3 | 0x33 | Longer Beep-Sound | |
4 | 0x34 | Power LED on | |
5 | 0x35 | Power LED blink | |
6 | 0x36 | Power LED off | * |
7 | 0x37 | Status LED off | * |
8 | 0x38 | Status LED green on | |
9 | 0x39 | Status LED green blink | |
: | 0x3A | Status LED orange on | |
; | 0x3B | Status LED orange blink | |
@ | 0x40 | Copy LED on | * |
A | 0x41 | Copy LED blink | |
B | 0x42 | Copy LED off | * |
C | 0x43 | Reset | |
` | 0x60 | Copy Button |
Note: These settings get reset on reboot so, if you want to repeat them, you'd better use a script stored directly on the server.
HTH,
PS: All credit goes to the German guys and, if you find this extremely useful, please donate to them directly.
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