Brytr channel lighting following the gable and eave lines of an Omaha home

Haven Evolution versus Jellyfish, compared by an installer who sells both.

We install two of the brands on this market, which is more than the company quoting against us, and it is the reason the other column here is allowed to win. Where we have not verified something, the page says which thing.

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We fit both, so this is not a pitch.

Compared on what shows
Diode spacing, diffuser and how the channel is fixed. The things you can actually see.
The install is the variable
The same hardware fitted badly fails long before the cheaper one fitted properly.
Weaknesses named
Where one is genuinely worse we write it down here and say it again at the quote.

Book a free design The systems we fit

A brick gable and white fascia on an Omaha home in daylight, the channel tucked under the roof edge as a slim line below the gutter

An Omaha two-story washed scarlet across the whole elevation under a moon

The back of an Omaha home at dusk with warm soffit downlights above a pool, the points repeated in the water

The verdict

We install both. On a large or complex roofline, Haven Evolution is worth the difference. On a simple one-story or a tighter budget, Jellyfish is the honest answer.

Haven Evolution: Premium tier
Jellyfish Lighting: Value tier
Where we stand: We sell one of these two
What settles it: Your roofline, measured on site. Every row below is true in general and none of them is true of every house.

Haven Evolution against Jellyfish Lighting, spec by spec.

SpecHaven EvolutionJellyfish Lighting

Manufacturer: Haven EvolutionHaven Lighting; Jellyfish LightingJellyfish Lighting
LED spacing: Haven Evolution4 in.; Jellyfish LightingWider
White channel: Haven EvolutionDedicated warm white; Jellyfish LightingColor-mixed
Color range: Haven EvolutionRGB + dedicated white; Jellyfish LightingRGB
Channel profile: Haven EvolutionExtruded aluminum, screw-fixed; Jellyfish LightingAluminum, stock finishes
App quality: Haven EvolutionBest of the systems we install; Jellyfish LightingWorkable
Scene programming: Haven EvolutionUnlimited saved scenes; Jellyfish LightingSupported
Zoning: Haven EvolutionUnlimited, per elevation; Jellyfish LightingSupported, fewer
Dimming: Haven Evolution1 to 100 percent per zone; Jellyfish LightingSupported
Weather rating: Haven EvolutionIP66; Jellyfish LightingSealed channel
Professionally installed: Haven EvolutionYes, by us; Jellyfish LightingVaries by dealer
Price tier: Haven EvolutionPremium; Jellyfish LightingLower

The Haven Evolution column is the manufacturer's published spec. The Jellyfish Lighting column is our own read as installers in this market, which is worth something and is not the same as a datasheet.

What we do not know about this one.

Every comparison page you will read on this subject is written with gaps in it. Ours has them listed, because a page that appears to know everything about a competitor is a page that has filled the gaps with plausible sentences.

How all of these were judged Tell us we have one wrong

Nothing much. This is the one comparison on the site where both columns are systems we buy and install ourselves.
Exact LED pitch on the current Jellyfish generation. We quote it as “wider” rather than a figure, because the figure has changed between production runs.

What we hand over, on two houses.

Neither of these is a comparison. Everything else here is a claim about hardware, and a claim is worth less than a finished roofline.

An Omaha two-story in red and green with lit wreaths in the windows and net lights over the shrubs — The permanent run alongside the decorations people still want out. It is not either-or.

A long Omaha ranch at blue hour behind a bare tree, warm white along the whole roofline — A long ranch at blue hour behind a bare tree, warm white holding the whole roofline.

Where each of these actually wins.

Choose Haven Evolution if

Haven Evolution · Premium tier

You will use warm white as your everyday setting
You have long straight runs where LED spacing shows
You want the deepest zoning and scheduling
You are staying in the house a long time

Choose Jellyfish if

Jellyfish Lighting · Value tier

Budget is the deciding constraint and you still want permanent
Your roofline is simple and single-story
You mostly want color scenes, not perfect white
You would rather spend the difference on landscape lighting

We install a cheaper one too.

A dealer with one brand has exactly one recommendation available to them, and you can predict it before they park.

Brytr installs Haven and we install Jellyfish. That is the only reason this page can give the other option real reasons to win, and it is why we will occasionally talk you into the cheaper hardware: a worse day for us and a better system for you.

Everything we install

What we would actually quote you

What most people read after this one.

Chosen, in order, rather than the other eight comparisons printed at the bottom of all nine pages.

The whole market in one table

See it on your house before you buy.

We measure on site, design it with you, and hand you a written quote. If you decide against it, you’ve lost an hour and gained a plan.

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