HomePod Mini circling the drain?
Been using my HomePod Mini for several years now with the same router in the same location (HomePod and router are about 1.5ft apart. All has been well until yesterday. The Mini started balking at requests sayin it had troubled connecting to the internet. Tried the following
- Removed power, plugged back. Everything started working for a few minutes then the same connectivity message.
- Did factory reset and set up Mini from scratch. Same thing, worked for a while then no internet.
- Plugged Mini into my Mac Studio Max and performed software restore. Set up Mini from scratch again. Worked for a while then back to square one.
- The rest of my home network is performing normally but I went ahead and power cycled the WiFi router just to make sure. Same results.
- The mini was updated to HomePod 18.0 and shortly after it was released with iOS 18 (now 18.0.1). The Mini was restored to 18.0 (there apparently is no HomePod 18.0.1)?
The Mini’s settings info continues to say it is connected to my WiFi network... but says it can’t connect.
So, possible hardware issue? Is it dead, Jim? Or is HomePod 18.0 screwed up?