From cb2097ce6ac7669683f79f4f39baa495bc8c7e74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rick van Hattem <wolph@wol.ph>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:07:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added explanation how to change the password (#124)

* Added explanation how to change the password

* Update ota.rst

* Use RST syntax
---
 esphomeyaml/components/ota.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/esphomeyaml/components/ota.rst b/esphomeyaml/components/ota.rst
index f14ab47a6..c4d3ce8d8 100644
--- a/esphomeyaml/components/ota.rst
+++ b/esphomeyaml/components/ota.rst
@@ -49,6 +49,21 @@ Configuration variables:
    to ``3232`` for the ESP32 and ``8266`` for the ESP8266.
 -  **id** (*Optional*, :ref:`config-id`): Manually specify the ID used for code generation.
 
+Updating the password:
+----------------------
+
+Since the password is used both for compiling and uploading the regular ``esphomeyaml <file> run`` won't work of course. This issue can be worked around by executing the operations separately through a ``on_boot`` trigger:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+    esphomeyaml:
+      on_boot:
+        - lambda: |-
+            id(ota).set_auth_password("New password");
+    ota:
+      password: "Old password"
+      id: ota
+
 .. note::
 
     If you get errors like