Turning the lights on is very easy once they are programmed. Easy touch has the auxiliary buttons up top that control the lights and intellicenter shows them on the home screen. If you want to change the color of them and you have Easy Touch, there is a lights menu. Under "colors" you can choose a singular color you want them to be or under "modes" you can choose from one of the preset light displays. They will default back to this selection each time until you chose another one.
Schedules can be set on the lights as well. In Easy Touch go into the menu, click schedules, and then lights. There you can set the time when you want the lights to come on.
If you ever get the lights out of sync, there is a sync button on the same lights menu. Select it and the lights should sync together to the same color/mode.