Disk Utility not recognizing Time Capsule Disk?

Hi I'm receiving the following error message from Time Machine:
"The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk."
I am able to access the Time Capsule's hard drive via Finder, and can see the sparsebundles there, but when opening Disk Utility the Time Capsule does not appear on the left sidebar along with other hard drives (such as that of the iMac and an external USB drive).
I've gone through restore and factory resets, this message continues to come up...any suggestions?
thanks

disk utility can only repair directly attached drives. it can not work on network drives like Time Capsule. but you can try repairing the sparse bundle itself. drag it to disk utility's left pane, select it there and choose "repair disk".

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