Create a developer project

Name the project

When naming your project, it's good practice to compose a name that:

  • Incorporates some basic information about the project.
  • Won't be easily confused with that of another project.
  • Can represent all the s within the project.

Meaningful names are important. A generic name such as project-gamma-798, is effectively "camouflaged" and won't stand out in a list of other generically-named projects.

Consider the following guidance when naming your project:

  • Use your company name
  • Use the type of project or action in the name
  • Don't use "test" in the project name

For example, acme-smarthome and acme-lighting are clear and unique project names.

Create the project

A developer project represents one or more s. By sharing a project with the members of their development team, the owner can allow other users to manage all s in the project.

Google Smart Home Ecosystem s are managed using the new Google Home Developer Console. There are two methods of setting up projects in the Developer Console:

  1. Create a new project.
  2. Import an existing project from the Actions on Google console.

Create a new project

Go to the Developer Console:

Go to the Developer Console

  1. On the Manage projects page, click Create a project.
  2. On the Get started page, click Create project.
  3. Enter the name of your project, which should adhere to the project naming guidelines.
  4. Click Create new project.

You are redirected back to the Home page for the new project.

Set log levels

By default, only error logs are saved to Google Cloud for each integration in your project.

To save all logs to Google Cloud for each integration, select All logs in the Log level control: Error logs section.

Google Home Developer Center project log levels

This setting applies to all integrations in your project. It cannot be set per integration. Saving all logs to Google Cloud may incur additional cost if your log storage space is exceeded.

To learn more about logs, see Cloud Logging for Matter.

Share a developer project

You may add or remove access to a project among the users on your team using predefined roles.

  1. On the Home page of the Developer Console click Members, which takes you to the IAM & Admin > IAM page on the Google Cloud Console.

    Or, click Project details, then click Manage members in GCP in the Members section at the bottom.

  2. Make changes as necessary using the Google Cloud Console dashboard.

For instructions for how to modify access to a project, refer to the Access control for projects with IAM.

Once added to the list of users, a user can view the project and any integrations in the Developer Console.

According to your organizational setting, you might experience permission errors when attempting to create developer projects. If so, reach out to your Google Cloud administrator and request Project Creator permissions for your account.