You need a Plume account before you can use the app, and the system will stay connected to the cloud at all times. This means two things. First, if there's no internet, you can't manage your home network at all. This is because you first need to log in to Plume Design 's server before you can send commands to your pods.
Secondly, the company can know everything you do with the system.
Plume Design's privacy statement doesn't say clearly what it doesn't collect from customers, it only gives examples of the things it does collect.
And the privacy risk isn't your only concern.
Having somebody else control your home network could lead to accidents, like the recent outage that happened with the Google Wi-Fi.