Yes, the led lights indeed do go off after 5 seconds, together with the NIC activity led right beside the network port on the AP. When pressing the reset button, the AP's status led is blinking green for about 5 seconds. After the AP's reboot , after the reset, the AP status led turns back on again rainbow colored. Followed by sequences of orange led blinking. . I made sure the AP isn't able to connect to Meraki cloud in two ways. By removing uplink on the Meraki PoE-switch with the AP connected to the switch, and power the AP with power injector and no LAN connected , as AjitKumar suggested in his post. In fact , when the AP can connect to Meraki cloud, it is indeed continuing the AP's configuration with SSID's and all. Which I seek to prevent.
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