HomePod Mini Set Configuring For Hours and other set up issues

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garywi Author

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HomePod Mini Set Configuring For Hours and other set up issues

Hello, I set up my HopePod Mini and Home App and I have not been able to enjoy it yet.

The device has indicated "HomePod is being configured. Additional settings available shortly". It's been in this state for 6 hours. I did a hard reset on the HomePod and its back in this state for two more hours.
It won't stop playing music. I can't get it to stop. You can see on my phone, music is always playing or paused. It also has control of my iPhone volume and I can't get it to release.
I set this up on my phone, but I bought this for my young child to play music from Amazon Prime. Is this possible. I want her to be able to play music but not disrupt my iPhone or play from my music library.

Thank you!

Posted on Dec 25, 2020 12:04 PM

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SteveD5430

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Dec 25, 2020 3:16 PM in response to garywi

A reddit user pointed out that this is an issue with the mesh router interface to the HomePod. These steps worked for me and several others.

Turn off your home wifi
Do the factory reset on your HomePod
Turn on internet hotspot on iPhone #1
Connect a second iOS device (iPhone, iPad, etc..) to the iPhone#1 hotspot
Using the second iOS device, do the initial setup on the HomePod and connect it to your Home app
Once it is configured, turn your wifi back on and connect your other devices to it as you normally would
Your HomePod will go offline initially but in about 20-30 minutes, the HomePod should switch over to your wifi network.

Hope this works. Good luck!!

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Dec 25, 2020 3:53 PM in response to garywi

Agreed. It’s a bug that Apple hasn’t released a fix for yet. You can definitely return it if you want to but if you want to keep it, this should fix your problem.

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