Essentially, I bought some btc and transferred from Blue wallet to Electrum using lightning. I was then able to open a lightning channel on electrum and transfer the btc to there.
Wait, you were able to receive BTC through your just-created channel in Electrum?
-snip- I believe I forgot to untick the "use trampoline routing" under preferences so I didnt even sync electrum with the lightning network which I think is why I couldnt send or receive btc after opening the lightning channel.
That will only be an issue if your channel isn't trampoline; you'll see a blue highlight under "
can send" row, means that it's frozen.
But as seen in the screenshot, it's connected to a trampoline node (
indicated by the kangaroo icon) so there shouldn't be any issue when sending funds.
The only inconsistency I found is the part that I've mentioned (
you probably remembered it wrong)