Is it possible to turn the base station lights off when the system is alarming?

To me, it seems bad security practice to draw attention to the alarm controller during a break-in. If the intruder comes in my family room door, where the base station is, it seems easy for him to just smash the base station rather than guess the passcode in the 30 second wait period, especially since it's blinking a red light, even though I've tried to hide it as well as possible. Even dimming the LEDs in setup doesn't turn them completely off, and putting something on top of it would muffle the alarm sound. I was tempted to put it in a metal box and buy another siren, but there is no good place to do that and the add-on siren has been pre-set to be less than max volume and isn't loud enough, so I'd rather not do it that way. Are there any other alternatives?