So you want your RPI to be a WIFI Hotspot?

 Man, there are a lot of articles out there on how to turn your RPI into a hotspot. Or just how to communicate with your RPI through WIFI. Or how to raise poodles.

I am not going to duplicate all of that work, but I will say that I tried an awful lot of "methods" to make my RPI3 be a hotspot and all of them worked just about as well as the rules on poodles.

Until I searched for something like "Script that does WIFI setup automatically"

Then I got pointed to a guy that eventually pointed me to what seems to be a good (and working) answer.

It is called RaspAP

in particular Raspap-webgui.

main paige is here:https://github.com/RaspAP/raspap-webgui/blob/master/README.md

don't forget to take the first instruction of setting your country mode and such on your RPI. that was key for me. Everything else I just accepted whatever RaspAp wanted to do to me.

My ultimate goal was to get standalone PLEX service running on that baby. The secret there is to go find the way to turn off local authentication:

Ok. This is mainly a note to future me, so if you are not me and didn't read this, don't feel bad.