Launch your smart home Action

This page describes the process for launching your smart home Action.

Pre-launch checklist

Before proceeding to submit your Action for release, check that your project satisfies these requirements. Completing this checklist improves your project's chances of approval by helping you catch many of the issues we see during the approval process.

• You reviewed our policies and verified that your Action complies with them.
• You implemented smart home intent fulfillment for SYNC, QUERY, EXECUTE, and DISCONNECT.
• You implemented Report State and Request Sync for your devices and traits.
• You tested your Action using the test suite for smart home and shared the self-test results with Google.
• You submitted a certification request from the Actions console, via Deploy > smart home certification.

The following step is specific to devices that require safety testing certification:

• The operation of certain devices can have safety implications, such as cooking appliances that may get hot enough to be a safety concern. For any device that can potentially pose a safety risk, we ask that you share the safety testing certificate for the device, such as a CE or UL certificate, per our policy You should submit a safety certificate if your device uses one or more of the following devices types:
  • action.devices.types.COOKTOP
  • action.devices.types.FRYER
  • action.devices.types.GRILL
  • action.devices.types.KETTLE
  • action.devices.types.MICROWAVE
  • action.devices.types.MULTICOOKER
  • action.devices.types.OVEN

The following step is specific to devices that use the App Flip feature:

• If you would like to release your Action for App Flip, you must submit App Flip videos for verification.

Submit an Action for release

To submit your smart home Action for release, follow these steps.

Go to the Actions on Google console

1. Select your project.
2. From the left navigation menu, select Deploy > Release.
3. From the Production section, click Start submission.

Check your submission status

You submission request triggers two phases in the review process: a policy review and a certification review. Your Action is launched to production only when it successfully passes both reviews.

• Policy review: All Actions undergo a policy review, which verifies that your Action follows the policy guidelines for Actions on Google.
• Certification review: smart home Actions go through certification review for additional quality assurance validation. Certification reviewers verify the content you provide through the certification request form, including your test suite for smart home results.

To see the detailed review status for your Action, open your smart home project in the console and click Deploy, then Release.

If the review team finds an issue that requires your attention, you will see that status reflected in the console user interface for your project. You will also receive an email from Google describing what needs to be revised. Once you make the necessary changes, you can resubmit your project in the Actions Console.

If approved by Google, your Action is queued for launch (usually within a week after approval). Once launched, end-users can discover your Action in the Google Home app (GHA).

Once your smart home Action is released to production, that project will not appear in the agent list in the GHA with a [test] prefix. To perform further development and testing on an Action that you have already published, you should use a separate draft project. You can create as many draft projects as you need to suit your development processes and infrastructure.

By default, your Action is launched globally for all supported languages. To restrict the discovery of your Action to users from specific locales, you can configure the languages supported for your Action (via Overview > Modify languages in Settings from the Actions Console).

Make changes to your published Action

If you are publishing any changes to your project (for example, if you want to use a different fulfillment URL), follow these steps:

1. Resubmit your test suite results.
2. Fill out a new certification request form (by clicking Deploy > Smart home certification).
3. Resubmit your Action for review.

Resubmitting an Action for review, if it has been published, creates a new version of the smart home Action in the Actions Console. You can view the history of all versions of your Action (including those under review or withdrawn) by opening the Releases page.