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Thanks @Ollie,
The key phrase was 'AP Mode' and the default addr of 192.168.4.1
Was the example you may have seen, the one that MaBe posted at Github, the link in #3 above?
or . . . . as Google turned up, was this the forum post: AP mode, webserver redirect?
Still looking for a good networking explanation or wikipedia article . . . .
Robin
Someone was attempting it on here. The approach seemed to be to run the ESP8266 as an Access Point and Station (the default).
In AP mode the IP address is a known
192.168.4.1.A simple webserver hosts a form to accept SSID and password credentials, which can be used as an input to connect to the main Wifi network as a station, if I can find the thread I'll update here.
Edit: Nothing jumps out in the forum, it might have been a discussion on gitter. But that was the approach taken