{"id":550830,"date":"2026-07-20T16:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/550830\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:41:12","slug":"plume-cpo-on-fixing-isp-provided-routers-public-betas-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/550830\/","title":{"rendered":"Plume CPO on fixing ISP-provided routers, public betas, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-lede\">On this week&#8217;s episode of the Smart Home Insider podcast, we talk about the the public beta of tvOS 27, and new product launches. Plus, Plume&#8217;s Alan Coleman joins us and talks about how his company helps Wi-Fi behind the scenes.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Guest co-host this week is Alan Coleman, chief product officer of Plume. Plume works with ISPs to help improve in-home Wi-Fi performance. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, they work with many OEM router manufacturers, provide a white-label app experience, and offer care service to help diagnose networking support issues.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>As usual, before we get into the interview, we start with home automation news.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest announcement this week was from Apple, as it launched the first public beta of its 27 operating systems. We got the public versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/ios-27\" title=\"iOS 27\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS 27<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/macos-27\" title=\"macOS 27\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">macOS 27<\/a>, tvOS 27, and more.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For those who jump into testing and want to try the new smart home features, it&#8217;s important to note that all Home Hubs must be updated to the respective &#8220;27&#8221; betas before <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-intelligence\" title=\"Apple Intelligence\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Intelligence<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-home\" title=\"Apple Home\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Home<\/a> video will work. Home Hubs include <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-tv\" title=\"Apple TV\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/homepod\" title=\"HomePod\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HomePod<\/a>, and HomePod mini, as a refresher.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In other news, a new Airversa humidifier has launched. It is coming to market with Thread and Apple Home support. Matter is coming in a firmware update post-launch.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Zemismart has a new 2-gang smart switch. This Zigbee-based switch requires a hub, but looks sleek with a 1.9-inch color touchscreen and real-time energy monitoring.&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784565672_454_maxresdefault.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784565672_454_maxresdefault.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive article-image\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the latter half of the episode we get into Plume. Alan Coleman serves as the company&#8217;s Chief Product Officer.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, we get into how Plume can get people to like their ISPs again, how its preparing for Matter and Thread-enabled routers, and how it can use Machine Learning to optimize home traffic for smart home devices.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Links from the Smart Home Insider podcast<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#fd9c998b988f89948e94939abd9c8d8d919894938e9499988fd39e9290\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with everything Apple in the weekly AppleInsider Podcast. Just say, &#8220;Hey, Siri,&#8221; to your <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/homepod-mini\" title=\"HomePod mini\" data-kpt=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HomePod mini<\/a> and ask it, and our latest Smart Home Insider episode too. If you want an ad-free main AppleInsider Podcast experience, you can support the AppleInsider podcast by subscribing for $5 per month <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/appleinsider-podcast\/id963144241?i=1000525946824\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">through Apple&#8217;s Podcasts app<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/appleinsider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Patreon<\/a> if you prefer any other podcast player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week&#8217;s episode of the Smart Home Insider podcast, we talk about the the public beta of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-550830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}