Ikea Tradfri Remote Control

When I reconnect the remote, I can see the button presses and history in SmartThings. However the remote no longer operates the lights locally.

None of the buttons do anything, I can just see that they’re being pressed. I can now assign actions to individual buttons, including the left and right buttons, but this would only make the remote work via SmartThings (I.e. dependent on the Internet)?

Pairing the remote to the lights makes it work locally again, without any left and right actions. But it seems to disconnect from SmartThings as I can no longer see the presses.

So it seems the remote either works locally or completely via SmartThings? I can’t seem to get it to get them to work together?
It would be OK if I have to program the buttons, i just don’t want the remote to be completely dependent on the cloud/ internet.