GEE users encountering "Caller does not have required permission to use project 517222506229"

[Dinghye]

Hi everyone,

Several users have reported the following error when using rs-embed with Google Earth Engine:

ee.ee_exception.EEException: Caller does not have required permission to use project 517222506229. Grant the caller the roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageConsumer role...

Root Cause

Project 517222506229 is not an rs-embed project — it is the GCP project associated with geemap's default OAuth Client ID. When ee.Initialize() is called without an explicit project argument, the GEE Python SDK falls back to the quota project linked to the OAuth client used during authentication. This is being fixed in the next release by allowing users to pass their own GCP project ID.

Workaround

After importing ee, re-initialize with your own GCP project before calling any rs-embed functions:

import ee
ee.Authenticate(force=True)  # only needed once

Or directly run in the terminal:

earthengine authenticate --force

Replace your-gcp-project-id with your own GCP project that has the Earth Engine API enabled. You can find or create one at https://console.cloud.google.com/.

The force=True flag ensures this call overrides any previous initialization done internally by rs-embed or geemap.

For more information about how to selec/create GEE project, please refer to this link