IDOBAO Montex Numpad Hotswappable Kit

Has anyone had luck connecting the Montex directly to a CTRL through the second USB-C port? I hooked it up initially using my iPad Air 4th Gen USB-C to USB-C charging cable and it worked. LEDs fired up, all the keys registered fine. I didn’t need such a long cord, so I ordered a 1 foot USB-C to USB-C and it didn’t work at all; no lights, nothing. Returned that cable, tried another, nothing. I’m on my 3rd shorter 1 foot cable now and none of the shorter cables have worked so far. I checked again with the iPad cable and it fires right up. Any suggestions for a shorter cable?

with VIA and assuming that you also got the per key RGB version (v2), you can program a layer to control the RGB keys using the keycodes found here: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/keycodes?id=rgb-lighting Unfortunately I don't use VIA so I'm not sure what the IU has for those codes in VIA. Here is a example of the brightness at max https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/800390749706780764/940705267555893390/IMG_20220208_152531.jpg Note: You can also join the IDOBAO discord if you want for more technical issues about it since there are IDOBAO mods and contributors that shares their issues and ideas.

Got this all set up with VIA (all the necessary hex and json files are on the IDOBAO website product page btw). LEDs were very bright the first time I plugged it in but after flashing have gone extremely dim and only the top most row is lit, which you can hardly tell because of how dim it is. Any ideas on how to fix this? otherwise the board works great.