How to use IE 11 in webdriverio.io v7 - webdriver

Question

After some research, I am trying to use the following code in the wdio.conf.js file in order to use IE 11 with webdriver.io version 7. It still isn't working. Any suggestions?
This is what I am using in wdio.conf.js.
line 1:
const drivers = {
ie: {
version: "3.150.1", // or whatever latest is
arch: "ia32", // forces use of 32 bit driver
baseURL: "https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com"
},
};
exports.config = {
// ...
line 65, with the browserName,
capabilities: [{
// maxInstances can get overwritten per capability. So if you have an in-house Selenium
// grid with only 5 firefox instances available you can make sure that not more than
// 5 instances get started at a time.
maxInstances: 5,
browserName: 'ie',
acceptInsecureCerts: true
// If outputDir is provided WebdriverIO can capture driver session logs
// it is possible to configure which logTypes to include/exclude.
// excludeDriverLogs: ['*'], // pass '*' to exclude all driver session logs
// excludeDriverLogs: ['bugreport', 'server'],
}],
line 131:
path: '/wd/hub',
services: [
['selenium-standalone', {
logPath: 'logs',
installArgs: { drivers }, // drivers to install
args: { drivers } // drivers to use
}]
],
The above information is largely based on https://webdriver.io/docs/selenium-standalone-service.
I have downloaded IEServerDriver.exe and Selenium Server (Grid) from https://www.selenium.dev/downloads/ and started them on their respective ports.
This is the error I'm seeing:
ERROR webdriver: Request failed with status 500 d
ue to session not created: Unable to create session from {
[0-0] "desiredCapabilities": {
[0-0] "browserName": "ie"
[0-0] },
[0-0] "capabilities": {
[0-0] "firstMatch": [
[0-0] {
[0-0] "browserName": "ie"
[0-0] }
[0-0] ]
[0-0] }
[0-0] }
If anyone has succeeded in using IE 11 with webdriver.io version 7, I welcome suggestions. I have also tried services such as services: ['iexplorerdriver'],, but to no avail. I see that it's not listed at https://webdriver.io/docs/gettingstarted for this version.

Answer 1

I finally found a way, and I think this will work for you.
http://v4.webdriver.io/guide/services/iedriver.html
This was written for webdriver 4, but it still works in webdriver 7.
I used these capabilities:
capabilities: [{
maxInstances: 1,
browserName: 'internet explorer',
acceptInsecureCerts: false
}],
For services, I think this is all that is needed:
services: ['iedriver'],
Of course, you have to install it via command line first:
npm install wdio-iedriver-service --save-dev