Patent ID: 8732742

Claim:
A method for presenting local weather information at a media device located at a customer premises, the method comprising: detecting an over the air (OTA) media content signal at a receiving antenna; tuning, at a tuner of the media device, to a media content stream residing in the received OTA media content signal; communicating the received OTA media content signal from the receiving antenna to the tuner of the media device; detecting at least one ambient weather condition using a detector located at the customer premises, wherein the detector includes at least one of a thermometer, an anemometer, a wind vane, a rain gauge, a hygrometer, a photometer, and a barometer, and wherein the ambient weather condition is at least one of a temperature detected by the thermometer, a wind speed detected by the anemometer, a wind direction detected by the wind vane, an amount of rain detected by the rain gauge, an amount of humidity detected at the hygrometer, an ambient light intensity detected by the photometer, and an air pressure detected by the barometer; communicating weather information corresponding to the at least one ambient weather condition from the detector located at the customer premises to the media device; determining, at the media device, occurrence of a degradation of at least one characteristic of the OTA media content signal received by the receiving antenna located at the customer premises, wherein the occurrence of the degradation of the OTA media content signal characteristic is determined when the OTA media content signal characteristic violates a signal characteristic threshold; comparing, at the media device, the weather information corresponding to the at least one ambient weather condition with a corresponding weather condition threshold, and generating a report, at the media device, when both the determined degradation of the OTA media content signal characteristic has violated the signal characteristic threshold and the ambient weather condition has exceeded the weather condition threshold, wherein the report is configured to be presented on a display to a customer, and wherein the report indicates the at least one ambient weather condition.