Enabling Sitecore Device Detection

Question

When trying to run the following code on my local machine

var _deviceCache = new DeviceDetectionCache();
var device = _deviceCache.GetDeviceInformation(Request.UserAgent)

I am getting the following exception

device detection is disabled at Sitecore.CES.DeviceDetection

Most of the articles I found spoke about how Sitecore uses Netbiscuits to detect devices, and how to set goals based on device detection but I still haven't found anything on where to enable to it, and if I can enable it on a local machine.

Thanks.

Further info : I'm using Sitecore 8.1 (rev. 151207)

Answer 1

In the sitecore/Settings folder, set DeviceDetection.Enabled to true Add the enable Sitecore.CES.DeviceDetection.config file in the (App_Config/Include/CES/) folder