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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-17MOD Lighting Haylen (Smart Lights)
⚠ Similar names, different products: ⚠ THE HAYLEN NAME COVERS SEVERAL 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: a smart light has '(Smart)' or '(Smart Lights)' in its name, as in 'Haylen (Smart Lights)', and only smart versions work with the MOD LIGHTING app. MOD also says a regular Haylen or Haylen RGB can be converted into a smart light by swapping its controller for a smart one, which it supplies as a kit if you send your order number. ⊕ THE RGB SMART VARIANT IS DELIBERATELY COVERED BY THIS RECORD RATHER THAN ITS OWN: it is the same fixture line, the same MOD LIGHTING app, the same Wi-Fi 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.
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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.[2][11]
LightGoogle Home
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Not established, and what we can point at is a page that never raises the subject. MOD's own help article on its Smart Home App is the only place the company explains how these fixtures connect, and it covers downloading the app and pairing the light — it names no smart-home platform at all, not Google and not any other. A page that never discusses platforms has not left Google out of anything; it simply does not say. If voice control is the reason you are buying, ask MOD before you order.[2][9][11]
LightAmazon Alexa
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
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.[2][11]
LightSmartThings
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
Same position — SmartThings is not named on any MOD page we read.[2][11]
LightHome Assistant
There is not enough model-specific evidence to draw a supported connection. Read the evidence and limits below.
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.[2][11]
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Device actions and events have not been established from the documentation.
Device actions and events have not been established from the documentation.
Device actions and events have not been established from the documentation.
Device actions and events have not been established from the documentation.
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What can you use, and where?
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Connection details and setup sources
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Alexa | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2][11] | 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][9][11] | Not established, and what we can point at is a page that never raises the subject. MOD's own help article on its Smart Home App is the only place the company explains how these fixtures connect, and it covers downloading the app and pairing the light — it names no smart-home platform at all, not Google and not any other. A page that never discusses platforms has not left Google out of anything; it simply does not say. If voice control is the reason you are buying, ask MOD before you order. |
| Apple Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[2][11] | 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][11] | 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][11] | 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.
Plans and ongoing costs[1][14]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Yes — you must create a vendor account to use it. (established from the vendor's own setup steps, where signing in is mandatory before the device can be added)[13]
No plan, tier or fee is named on MOD's product page or in its help centre — the MOD LIGHTING 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 and offline use
- Works without the internet: Inconclusive — we read the vendor's own material and it does not answer this either way. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
- Hardwired and permanent — MOD describes the fixture as 'wall-mounted with hard wire', which means wiring it into your home's mains. MOD doesn't say whether it expects an electrician to do that, so if you haven't wired a light fixture before, plan on one. 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 product page names no radio, and MOD names not one smart-home platform anywhere: no Alexa, no Google, no Apple Home, no SmartThings, no Matter. What MOD does say about connecting is in a help-centre article about its app: the lights join 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi only, and you sign in to the MOD LIGHTING app with your email to set them up. 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 into your home's mains wiring, and MOD's pages don't say whether it expects an electrician to fit it, so if you haven't wired a light fixture before, budget for one. 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 →
16 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words
- [1] mod-lighting.com, Haylen (Smart Lights) product page — Read on the maker's own site, 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 — Read on the maker's own site, 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 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-17Backs: Product identity
- [4] Capability research, 2026-08-20. Every ecosystem answer on this record is unknown, and no statement from MOD Lighting itself about what the light can be told to do was found — the pages this record cites are the product page and a help-centre article about the maker's smart-home app. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
- [5] the record's own customer-facing prose fields as they stood before 2026-09-06 (no new external read), verified 2026-09-06
- [6] https://help.mod-lighting.com/en-US/smart-home-app-2374830 (read 2026-09-10): 'Download the MOD Smart Home App from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.' The product page for this fixture directs control 'through the MOD Smart Home App', so the help article is about this record's app. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-10Backs: App platforms
- [7] https://www.mod-lighting.com/products/haylen-smart, https://help.mod-lighting.com/en-US/smart-home-app-2374830 and https://help.mod-lighting.com/en-US/haylen-frequently-asked-questions-994214 (all read 2026-09-10). The FAQ answers the voltage question in detail ('a voltage range of 90V-260V') and names no Wi-Fi band on any of the three pages. The Wi-Fi band stays unrecorded: we looked, and MOD Lighting does not publish it. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-10
- [8] this record's own lifecycle note as it stood before 2026-09-18 (no new external read): its wording was rewritten so it reads in plain language. No fact, date, source or value changed, and the earlier wording is kept on this record., verified 2026-09-18
- [9] MOD Lighting's help-centre article on the MOD Smart Home App, help.mod-lighting.com/en-US/smart-home-app-2374830, re-read 2026-09-19. Counted across the whole page: Google Assistant, Google Home, Alexa, Apple Home, HomeKit, Siri, SmartThings, Home Assistant and Matter each appear zero times. The single Google reference is the Google Play Store link for downloading MOD's own app. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-19Backs: Google Home compatibility
- [10] MOD Lighting's Haylen (Smart Lights) product page, read in full 2026-09-23. Its installation section, verbatim: 'Haylen smart wall lights are wall-mounted with hard wire. Each unit includes a complimentary 4'' x 4'' cover plate, which may be optionally utilized during installation.' and 'These wall lights are versatile and can be installed on various wall or panel types.' The page links an installation guide on help.mod-lighting.com; a plain read of that guide returned only its title and navigation (271 characters), so its steps could not be read. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-23Backs: Installation
- [11] MOD LIGHTING's help-centre article on its app, now titled 'The MOD LIGHTING app' and marked 'Updated 8 days ago', read in full on 2026-10-03. Verbatim: "Download it for iPhone from the App Store or for Android from Google Play" · "comes with the chip the app talks to" (of a light whose name carries '(Smart)' or '(Smart Lights)'; the list of smart lights names 'Haylen (Smart Lights)' and 'Haylen RGB (Smart Lights)') · "Can I convert my regular Haylen or Haylen RGB to a smart light? Yes." · "If your router shows two networks, choose the 2.4 GHz one, because the lights only join 2.4 GHz." · "The app uses Bluetooth to find a new light while you pair it, so keep Bluetooth on while you pair." · "Once your light is paired, it joins your home Wi-Fi and you control it over Wi-Fi, so Bluetooth can be off after that." · "Each smart light joins your 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi as its own device". Alexa, Google Assistant, Google Home, Apple Home, HomeKit, Siri, SmartThings, Home Assistant and Matter do not appear; the only Google mention is Google Play. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-03Backs: Product identity, Protocols, Wi-Fi bands it can use, Required hub or bridge, App platforms, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Home Assistant compatibility
- [12] The same MOD LIGHTING app article, read in full on 2026-10-03. Verbatim: "Once your light is paired, it joins your home Wi-Fi and you control it over Wi-Fi" · "Keep the wall switch on. A light switched off at the wall shows as offline in the app." The page says nothing about control without an internet connection. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-03
- [13] MOD LIGHTING's Haylen (Smart Lights) Installation Guide, linked from this product's page, read in full on 2026-10-03 (plain read; a rendered read the same day showed the same text). Verbatim: "Download the MOD LIGHTING app from the App Store or Google Play" · "Open the app, sign in with your email (we send you a sign-in code), and tap Pair a light on the Home screen." · "When the app says it is searching, hold the pairing button in the middle of the remote for 5 to 10 seconds, until the light blinks, then let go." MOD's app article, read the same day (entry bq107-t2-20261003b-haylen-app-article), adds: "Your lights stay with the account they were first set up on." — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-03Backs: Vendor account required
- [14] MOD LIGHTING's Haylen (Smart Lights) product page, read in full on 2026-10-03. Verbatim: "Haylen (Smart Lights) Dimmable Outdoor Wall Light In Stock $109.95" · the struck-through figure "$139.95" under the label '21 % Off' · the length selector lists 12, 24, 31, 39, 47, 59, 67, 79 and 94 inches · "Light Control App + Remote Control" · "all through the MOD LIGHTING app" · "This is the MOD LIGHTING app–enabled version of Haylen" · "Haylen smart wall lights are wall-mounted with hard wire." · "These wall lights are versatile and can be installed on various wall or panel types." No radio, protocol, smart-home platform, plan, membership or fee is named for the light. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-03Backs: Product identity, Power source, Installation, Market availability, Batteries, Subscription
- [15] MOD LIGHTING's Haylen Frequently Asked Questions, marked 'Updated an hour ago', read in full on 2026-10-03. Verbatim: "Pair each light with the MOD LIGHTING app first, one at a time, with the others switched off at the wall." · "Our Haylen fixture is not compatible with dimmer switches at this time." · "designed to operate within a voltage range of 90V-260V". The measurements answer lists eight sizes from 12 to 94 inches. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-03
- [16] MOD LIGHTING's Haylen Installation Guide (the plain Haylen's, linked from the FAQ), read on 2026-10-03: a plain read serves 226 characters of text, its title and navigation only. — Read the original source directly, verified 2026-10-03
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