The Home Developer Center features a number of tools to assist you in developing, testing, and certifying your devices and applications for use in the Google Home Ecosystem. Whether you're working on Matter or Cloud-to-cloud, building a device or mobile app, we have a tool for you.

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A self-contained desktop application that provides visual state and controls for Matter virtual devices.

  • Matter
  • Google Home

Simulate a smart home project by creating and modifying a virtual home with configurable device types and traits.

  • Cloud-to-cloud
  • Google Home

This plugin gives you access to Google Assistant Simulator, Cloud Logging, and other tools to simplify your smart home development process.

  • Google Home
  • Matter

Automate commissioning in the Google Home app.

  • Google Home
  • Matter

Verify the correctness of intent response payloads using the SYNC response validator.

  • Cloud-to-cloud
  • Google Home

Learn how to troubleshoot Monitoring metrics and Google Cloud logs.

  • Cloud-to-cloud
  • Google Home
  • Matter

View the Home Graph using the Home Graph Viewer.

  • Cloud-to-cloud
  • Google Home
  • Home Graph API

Generate and run test cases based on the devices and traits associated with your account and when testing is complete view results.

  • Google Home
  • Cloud-to-cloud

Use the Google Home Extension for access to Google Assistant Simulator, Cloud Logging, and other tools to simplify your smart home development process.

  • Cloud-to-cloud
  • Google Home
  • Matter

Monitor usage of smart home Actions.

  • Matter
  • Google Home
  • Cloud-to-cloud