I'm sorry but it's not a duplicate. Here, I'll delete my last picture. It made the issue look like I was talking about something else. It's irrelevant to the issue.
To restate: Everything worked fine prior to 1.8. That's the only issue. Not my setup. Anyway, I broke all the glass since reading that this bug has been labeled as duplicate. Beacon still doesn't work. Please fix the issue. It is not a duplicate.
Bah I don't know already. I guess my issue is a dupe if bedrock is the true underlying problem. Lame. Guess I'll not whack Pigmen for a while.