How to turn Lights off on set top boxes

You cannot 'turn them off' but you could cover that area with black electrical tape.

🙂 consider it done!

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@baseballisback wrote:

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@skeeterintexas wrote:

You cannot 'turn them off' but you could cover that area with black electrical tape.

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@skeeterintexas -- Do you remember the older boxes before they had the update? Those bright blue lights were painful.

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I did the electrical tape trick on one of those old boxes!

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@baseballisback wrote:

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@skeeterintexas wrote:

You cannot 'turn them off' but you could cover that area with black electrical tape.

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@skeeterintexas -- Do you remember the older boxes before they had the update? Those bright blue lights were painful.

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Yes and articles have came out now that blue colored lights mess with your sleep.

In fact, my 5th gen Kindle Fire 7 Tablet (the $50 one) has a blue shade option, that turns everything sepia, for use at night.

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@dhascall wrote:

Yes and articles have came out now that blue colored lights mess with your sleep.

In fact, my 5th gen Kindle Fire 7 Tablet (the $50 one) has a blue shade option, that turns everything sepia, for use at night.

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IOS 9.3 is supposed to do the same thing automatically after sundown.

I discovered that I was super sensitive to the blue light after having cataract surgery.  I had horrible insomnia the days following.

I did some Googling on the cause of insomnia since I didn't want to resort to sleeping pills.  There's really interesting research on the circadian cycle and the effect that blue light has on our sleep cycles. 

I installed f.lux on my computer and my optomistrist introduced me to blue block lenses when I got glasses.  Wearing them after 6:00pm seems to help trick my brain!