esp32 plus RPi provisioning

[GilbertW]

Hi,

Espressif provide nice mobile phone apps to provision ESP32's with wifi passwords.

By contrast, getting wifi passwords into a 'live' Raspberry Pi seems hard (it seems assumed you're flashing a new SD card or have a screen + keyboard connected). On the other hand, a RPi can run Linux app's (an Apache webserver for example) that the ESP32 can't.

The 'ESP-Hosted' project (github.com/espressif/esp-hosted) looks interesting therefore: It combines an ESP32 doing Wifi with a RPi running Linux.

Reading the documentation however, 'Esp-Hosted' still seems to require the RPi is provisioned with a Wifi password (in a wpa_supplicant). So we're back to the problem above.

Has anyone experience with Esp Hosted: Is there a way to provision the ESP32 (only) and still use the RPi TCP stack to e.g. serve webpages?
Alternatively (though its perhaps a question for another forum) does anyone know if there're any well-supported RPi provisioning apps comparable to the Espressif ones?

thanks for any suggestions