My husband took down an old chandelier. I got the new one in and had the day off..thought I’d hang it.

the room has 2 single light switches, one that turns on 4 recessed can lights, the other that operates the chandelier (no dimmer switch).

The junction box has 2 black, 2 white, and 2 ground wires. They were paired by color and capped. There is also a single red wire? (Dimmer? No idea?) it was capped alone.

My chandelier has a copper ground and a lamp appearing brown wire (2 brown wires ran together like a lamp).. I stripped them, hooked the 2 blacks one side, the 2 whites to the other. Hooked the ground to the grounding screw.

(The info I had read said what side went to white and black did not matter- I’m now reading that it does matter, and I should meter test where the bulbs go in with it turned on without a bulb?) I watched a video from a seemingly professional website, maybe not?

Anyhow, now when I turn on the lights for the room, one light turns on both the chandelier and the can lights and the other light switch does nothing.

Can someone help me out:

1. Black/whites being attached to either of my chandelier wires- how do I know if I did that right? Is it a random assignment (as the video said) or is there a way to know what one is right? The lamp style wire from my new light has brown covering both wires.

2. I messed up something now that one light switch won’t control anything and the other controls everything. I wish my husband took a photo! What do I need to move around?

3. What’s that random red wire?

Thanks,

Sarah