Red and green wires behave the same way but radios preserve the split between red/green circuit network on a channel. To get output on a green wire you need to transmit something using a green wire. Is that the case for you?
One visual trap is that the I/O port, unlike power poles, doesn't show circuit network signal colours on its input signals when you mouse-over the entity. That's because it's a decider combinator in disguise and the vanilla DC entity doesn't do this either.