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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-17MOD Lighting Haylen (Smart Lights)
⚠ Similar names, different products: ⚠ THE HAYLEN NAME COVERS AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT PRODUCTS AND ONLY TWO OF THEM ARE SMART, which on this vendor's site is easy to get wrong because the listings look alike: plain 'Haylen' (a dimmable LED wall light with no app), 'Haylen RGB' (colour, but controlled by a REMOTE — MOD's own listing describes it as '7 colors 358 effects w/ remote'), 'Haylen Sensor', and then the two app-controlled versions — 'Haylen Smart' (this record) and 'Haylen RGB Smart'. MOD gives the test in its own help centre: 'You can confirm if your fixture is a Smart Version by checking your product name—if it includes "Smart Light", it is the smart version', and adds that 'Smart Versions are only available for orders placed after September 2025.' ⊕ THE RGB SMART VARIANT IS DELIBERATELY COVERED BY THIS RECORD RATHER THAN ITS OWN: it is the same fixture line, the same MOD Smart Home App, the same Wi-Fi-plus-Bluetooth connectivity and the same (absent) platform documentation — the difference is full colour versus tunable white, which is a fixture feature rather than a compatibility fact. On every axis this catalogue actually publishes, the two are identical.
Exactly which product this is[1][3]
- Model number
- Not established
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- US
- Also sold or listed as
- Haylen Smart · Haylen Smart LED Wall Light
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Alexa | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Not established, and this is a genuine gap rather than a formality. MOD Lighting names NO smart-home platform anywhere — not on the product page, not in the help centre's own Smart Home App article, which describes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth pairing and mentions no voice assistant or ecosystem at all. Qualified silence stays unknown under this catalogue's spec-less-vendor rule: a vendor that publishes no platform list is not making an evidenced absence, it is simply not telling you. If Alexa control matters to you, ask MOD before buying rather than assuming an app-controlled light speaks it. |
| Google Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Same position as Alexa — no MOD page we read names Google in any form. |
| Apple Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Same position — no Apple Home, HomeKit or Matter claim appears on any MOD surface read. Notably, MOD does not name Matter either, so there is not even a protocol-level route to reason about. |
| SmartThings | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Same position — SmartThings is not named on any MOD page we read. |
| Home Assistant | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2] | Same position — not named, and we found no Home Assistant documentation covering MOD Lighting. A Wi-Fi light with a maker's own app and no published way for other software to reach it is the least promising shape for a local integration, but that is a general observation about how such products are built, not evidence about this one. |
? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.
Protocols: WIFI · BLUETOOTH[2]
Subscription reality[1]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No plan, tier or fee is named on MOD's product page or in its help centre — the MOD Smart Home App is described as the way you control the light, not as a paid tier of it. ⚠ We record no subscription on the strength of an absence across two of the maker's own pages rather than an explicit statement, because MOD publishes no pricing or terms page that addresses fees at all.
Maintenance reality
- Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
- Hardwired and permanent — MOD describes the fixture as 'wall-mounted with hard wire', which is why this is an electrician's job rather than an evening's. Each unit ships with a 4" × 4" cover plate that 'may be optionally utilized during installation', which is MOD acknowledging that it is often replacing an existing fixture with a differently-sized backplate. Built for outdoors at 'IP65 Weather Resistant & Anti-Rust', with what MOD calls an 'Energy-Efficient COB LED'. ⚠ No wattage, brightness or colour-temperature figure appears on anything we could read, so we record none.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether MOD Lighting publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
The catch
You are buying a light fixture that happens to have an app, not a smart-home device — and the difference shows up in what MOD will tell you. Its own pages name no radio, no protocol and, most importantly, not one smart-home platform: no Alexa, no Google, no Apple Home, no SmartThings, no Matter, anywhere. The connectivity facts on this page came from a help-centre article about the app, and even that article names no ecosystem. So if the light has to answer to anything other than MOD's own app, ask them in writing before you order. Two practical costs on top: it is hardwired, so budget an electrician, and the $109.95 is the 12-inch entry price on a fixture sold up to 94 inches.
Who it's for
Someone choosing this for how it looks on an exterior wall, who is content controlling it from MOD's own app and a remote. It is a reasonable fit for a household with no smart-home platform to integrate with — and a poor one for anybody who expects a light bought in 2026 to appear in Alexa, Google Home or Apple Home, because MOD documents none of them.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] mod-lighting.com, Haylen (Smart Lights) product page — vendor-page research (spec-less-DTC; absences enumerated, not inferred), verified 2026-08-17Backs: Product identity, Price, Power source, Installation, Market availability, Research status, Batteries, Subscription
- [2] help.mod-lighting.com, Smart Home App article — vendor-help-page research (absence of platform claims recorded as absence of claims), verified 2026-08-17Backs: Protocols, Required hub or bridge, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility
- [3] help.mod-lighting.com Haylen FAQ + mod-lighting.com Haylen product listings — vendor-help-page and vendor-catalog research, verified 2026-08-17Backs: Product identity
- [4] BQ-187 capabilities assessment, 2026-08-20. Every ecosystem cell on this record reads `unknown`, and no first-party capability statement was read this pass — the record's cited surfaces are the product page and a help-centre article on the vendor's smart-home app. — vendor-and-ecosystem-doc research (BQ-187 capabilities population, batch 9 — lighting), verified 2026-08-20
- [5] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-06 (no new external read) — consumer-translation pass (07 §2A.12) — customer-facing prose rewritten to the three-layer rule; NO FIELD VALUE, LEVEL, PATH OR TRANSPORT CHANGED. The research trail that used to sit inside those fields is preserved here verbatim., verified 2026-09-06
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