I'm opening this issue for future reference.
Newer sepal_ui installations will install the latest earthengine-api version which now requires to set a default project to work with.
With this version, the legacy assets are not longer reachable through getAssetRoots() and I haven't found a way to get them.
There is no need to create a home folder, the default folder is projects/{project}/assets/.
We should update:
- gee
folder references
init_ee function