I put together a beginner Home Assistant class for the Dallas Makerspace, and I open sourced it so anyone can reuse it: classes.smarthomesellout.com.
It’s the version of Home Assistant onboarding I wish someone had handed me when I was starting. It stays beginner-friendly but still covers the stuff that matters early, like protocols and hardware choices.
The reason it’s a fork-friendly repo: I think the real win is if you teach it too. Fork bharvey88/home-assistant-intro-class, swap in your local gear and stories, push. GitHub Actions builds you a MkDocs site on your fork’s Pages, plus the speaker outline and the handout each as a Word doc and a PDF. Tag a release and all four docs attach automatically. Print them, hand them out, done.
If you’re starting out, the site’s at classes.smarthomesellout.com. If you teach, fork the repo and make it yours.