2x Homepod (2nd gen) offline after tvOS update to 26.5, adding them again gives "Setup Failed (100)"
I noticed my volume was different after updating to 26.5 and today I realized the sound was coming out of my TV! I go to Home and I see "Network error" for the homepod pair.
I've spent like 2 hours doing all sorts of things: ungrouped, removed, reset, remove from icloud etc.
I'm at wits end with this.
Ideas?
EDIT:
I've tried both of them and both are behaving exactly the same. I unplug one while I work on the other.
My guess: after the upgrade to tvOS 26.5, the homepods were updated and it failed. Last week, after the 26.5 update, my ISP had a period of downtime for 1-2 hours in the middle of the night. If they were updating at that point could that have caused this?
Also, I can't seem to factory reset them.... the white light to red never happens.
EDIT2:
After 3 hours of reseting, a retrying a bunch of things I had already tried, I finally got both updated to 26.5 and was able to get them online.
I think the key was moving them from one wi-fi network, then back again. The "Network error" (I didn't mention before) was persistent until I did that.
The quality of Apple software is in the dumpster, IMO. What a shitshow.