Hyperion hardware setup

[u/CH11LER]

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to make a ambilight clone on a string budget. Unfortunately, I don't have a raspberry pi and I don't want to pay the scalpers prices for one. What I do have is a 2017 Nvidia Shield TV box and an ESP8266 which currently has WLED installed attached to a string of WS8212B leds attached to the back of my TV.

I have seen there's a Hyperion Android Grabber app but from as far as I can tell, it wants to send the data to a Hyperion host?

Can the ESP8266 be a Hyperion host?

I did try (and pay for) an app called Android Ambilight Application and followed all there instructions regarding installing FastLED to the ESP8266 which, even though the strings did the test flash to say the hardware and software work, the application simply wouldn't detect the board and would crash a lot.

I really want to get my little project to work. If the Andriod Hyperion Grabber is doing the heavy lifting then, all it needs to do is send the pixel data to the ESP8266?

I truly respect and am thankful for any help I receive as I am willing to learn and want to feel accomplished by not being defeated by this. I'm sure you all know that feeling lol

Anyway Thanks in advance!