HomePod mini “Setup Failed (-5303)”—What is going on?

I am also experiencing these symptoms + getting this error code on one HomePod, and error code -5320 on another. Here are the things I've tried:

• Changing our wireless network's security from WPA3-Personal to WPA2-PSK (AES).
• Enabling the 2.4 GHz wireless network.
• Factory resetting the HomePods using a Mac.
• Factory resetting the HomePods using an older firmware (17.1.1 in this case).
• Completely erasing and starting a new home in the Home app.
• Trying setup on a different device.

Both devices used to attempt setup were running iOS/iPadOS 17.2.

I'm totally stumped. Any direction would be helpful.

i’m also experiencing the same errors with my Homepod Minis and Apple TV 4k 3rd Gen, Homepod Mini Setup Failed (-5320), and the Apple TV will keep asking to re sync icloud but will just fail, tell me try again latter. I also did

• Factory resetting the HomePods.
• Factory resetting the Apple TV’s
• Completely erasing and starting a new home in the Home app.
• Trying setup on a different device.

I worked with Apple Support today and they were able to help me. Donald was super patient and helped with all the troubleshooting.

We were able to resolve the issue by disconnecting the wireless extenders in the house, then rebooting the modem and router--leaving the extenders unplugged. For my network, this could be due to buggy firmware in the extenders, which is pretty common for Netgear equipment 😩 so I would highly recommend trying this if you have this sort of network configuration.

If you don't, it still wouldn't hurt to try restarting the modem and router. Unplug both, wait 30 seconds, plug in the modem and wait for it to fully boot and connect, and finally the router. Let me know whether or not this helps, and I'll keep digging for an answer if not.

What I ended up doing is, full hard reset of modem , Eero rounter , apple tvs ,Hue bridge, and lightbulbs, and backup icloud to Hard drive then deleted all backup setting from it and then i got every thing back online.

Hope that helps any one having a similar problems setting up HomePods or Apple TVs

I got it to work!

I use an iPhone running 17.1.2 and it set up.

It's seems to be a 17.2 issue. Hope that helps

Same here. Used backup phone that is on 17.0.3 and everything went well. It looks like 17.2 mess.

Had the same problem, update to ios 17.2.1 fixed it.

My client updated to iOS 17.2.1 right before we tried configuring the HomePod again. This time there was no requirement to put in the password for my client’s Apple ID. It worked without problems.