About Us
The Story
Hey Ya’ll: The call me “The Papaw”.
For the past several years, the wife and I have been raising one of our grandsons. He calls me Papaw. (Pă with a short “a”, Pa paw, not paw paw).
When he was 3 and was talking fairly well, he informed me that he was not my grandson, but instead, he was “Papaw’s son”, as the wife and I had discouraged him when he was wanting to call us mom and dad. He melted my heart that day with that kind of thinking for a 3 year old, and it wasn’t long until that soon became my nickname for him, “Papaw’s Son” (pronounced more like “Papawsun”).
As he grew older, he got his own TV and android box where he could watch his own TV shows and movies streamed from our NAS via Kodi. It wasn’t long I found myself creating a personalized kid’s theme for Kodi as most of them out there were no longer being updated and working correctly.
This here’s how it all began for PSMC!
PSMC was Born
Being retired from webdesign and knowing nothing about Kodi skins, I started with modding a popular working skin done by the awesome “SiLVO”. As time passed, I did my own fork of Kodi, which I named PSMC.
PSMC is short for “Papaw’s Son Media Center”. (since that time, PSMC is now available for both Android & Windows).
Over the years, I’ve since done various themes and animated themes for PSMC that include themes like “Man of Steel”, “Batman”, “Super Mario Galaxy”, “Scooby-Doo”, “Spiderman”, “Toy Story”, and a few others geared more for adults.
I’ve also done some of my own addons for streaming, such as FuzzyBritches (yep, the wife’s nickname) and other addons for maintenance, gaming, etc.. Most all of them I continue to maintain and keep updated (when when time allows). BTW, everything I do is compatible with Kodi and other Kodi forks.
Most everything I’ve done is still being included in the PSMC repositories as part of the “PSMC Collection” now.
Papawson Started Growing Up
As he got older, we started home schooling just before Covid and have been since. We built a PC for him for school and I also set it up for gaming and gaming emulation as well. This led us into Launchbox/Bigbox. I think he has 60,000+ games in his collection now.
That’s when I got into doing themes and plugins for the LaunchBox/BigBox.
Well, I got the brainy idea to try to create a theme for Bigbox that matched a skin I had done for PSMC. Now there are many of them, including animated ones and I wound up calling all the gaming stuff “The PSGC Collection”, yep, short for “Papaw’s Son Gaming Center”.
If you install PSMC and Bigbox on a decent Windows machine, along with an add-on available in the repo, you can jump back and forth between the two without ever having to exit back to the desktop. Install a couple more free addons and you can throw in some home automation with your remote or game controller. Giving you an “all-in-one” Gaming / Media Center experience!
Papawson is getting older now, and his interests are changing, but I enjoy the creativity of it. So I decided to try my hand at sharing my efforts with others, first on BMAC and now here. (oh crap, back to web design).
I am hoping that Papawson will take an interest in doing all this someday soon and I eventually can turn it all over to him .
If you would like to gain access to all the apps, addons, custom made media, audio packs, platform & playlist voices, and all the many skins and themes I’ve done, including all my future work, take a look at the different memberships available and give one a try.
I continue doing this hoping it will be able to help out the wife & I in providing Papawson with a better future.
Thank you for spending some of your time reading this!
• The Papaw 🙏❤️🙏 •
PSMC Sylvo
The Very First Skin
PSMC Intro Video
The very first Intro Video
Various PSMC Addons
The PSMC kept Growing
Matching Themes
An example of one of a PSMC skin with a matching a PSGC (Bigbox) theme
AI-HyperTBox Animated Theme
One of the newer Bigbox themes
Video
Watch the YouTube video
Over time we have evolved into a single solution for a "Complete Home Theater Experience". Streaming, Gaming and even Home Automation with a single, expandable device and a decent Windows PC
The Papaw Says:
“Let The Games Begin”
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