Hi hiI have the remote from the first picture. It's all good, I just bought the bluetooth controller. Mine are the high powered ones. I figured out what was wrong with the remote. This might help others troubleshoot it. If you take the camera to your phone and set it to take pictures, point the remote at the camera and look at your screen and look for a red light when you push the buttons. No red light, the connection for the button to the board is screwed. You have to purchase a new remote. Instead of doing that, I just went ahead and bought the bluetooth controller. My set time, set cycle, and reset buttons were screwed. Doesn't matter though, I wanted the app controller anyways so......all good. I have them running one light on the back and one light on the front with a current usa six bulb ho t5 in the center. Tank looks great.
Sorry for the late response, if your lights use the remote in my first pic, those are the low powered ones. The high powered ones which are are on the same level as radions etc uses the second remote or bottom picture. The high end ones are not loop compatible. They use a separate system, (they actually came out in 2016 I think. But they still are 3-4 times more powerful than any of the ic loop lights. Did you figure it out and yes the blue tooth device is great. I use it for all of my wave makers and Return pumps. However the blue tooth device doesn’t work with the more powerful ones. Drives me crazy.